"Movie Crazy" is a delight in which the boobish Harold goes to Hollywood to become a star.

How come no one seems to notice that this supposedly boobish swain, portrayed by a newcomer, Kenny Doughty, is drop-dead desirable on any turf?

At the same time, freedom of expression also extends to those viewers who apparently like the show despite - or because of - its dumb script, boobish father and bimbo mother.

Some others paid attention to the Queendom news feeds and sensoria, which were only six years out of date, and dressed in those styles instead, but already this had begun to seem like a quaint and vaguely boobish thing to do.

The group is led by a boobish Slavic film director and includes cynical young film makers, equally cynical punksters, a Marine eager to sell secrets, a real-estate magnate on the make, camera-toting tourists, a porcine mother and pugnacious little son and other crudely familiar types.

"I don't know that there has been any serious study making a connection in a causal or empirical way, but one would have to be boobish to think that the negative image doesn't become something people see as normal," said Stephen A. Greyser, a professor at Harvard Business School who specializes in the field of communications.