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On the movie violence scale, a debate Saturday between Hollywood filmmakers over movie violence would have drawn a G rating. Sure, actor Edward James Olmos talked hypothetically of slashing the man sitting next to him, "Terminator 2" director James Cameron, in the face with broken glass as the pair disagreed over film content.

On the movie violence scale, a debate Saturday between Hollywood filmmakers over movie violence would have drawn a G rating. Sure, actor Edward James Olmos talked hypothetically of slashing the man sitting next to him, "Terminator 2" director James Cameron, in the face with broken glass as the pair disagreed over film content.

As symbols of the riots, they are indelible. As people, they are barely known. Even some of their neighbors do not know who they are and what they have done. In the 1 1/2 years since four Angelenos, watching television in different locations, rushed to the intersection of Florence and Normandie avenues to rescue Reginald O. Denny, their extraordinary courage has been overshadowed by the powerful images of mob violence. Damian Monroe Williams is much more of a household name than Bobby Green.

Britons know Gerry Adams and his cease fire. They say he's a fascist, an Irish executioner with a peace initiative that's just another cheap ploy. Because they have seen his shoulder beneath the caskets of dead terrorists and for 25 years have mourned hundreds bombed by Gerry's kids in Northern Ireland's pubs and chip shops, England's hotels and offices. Even Harrod's, one bloody Christmas. This month, Americans celebrated their Gerry Adams.