James Riordan wrote:
>      It is my firm opinion that Tarantino does not use "that word" as
> recklessly as some people accuse him of doing.  The scripts of both Pulp
> Fiction and Jackie Brown, his two latest works, contain that word fewer
> times than they were uttered in the final film.
>
>      It's also interesting to note that in both films the word is not
> spoken by whites.

   As a Tarantino fan as well as a Twain fan, I do have to note that
"that word" is used by Tarantino's character in Pulp Fiction, when
talking to Samuel L. Jackson.

Alan Eliasen