It's easy, seeing the New Kids perform, to understand why they've been embraced by a teen-age audience.

And teen-age audiences are the most rabid and intense moviegoers.

"The dialogue and the show speak to a confused teen-age audience," Williamson says.

At a recent Warsaw screening, a mostly teen-age audience loved it.

The result is that fewer stations are willing to present young groups aimed at the teen-age audiences.

"It can be a problem if you're looking for a teen-age audience."

Freed played rhythm-and-blues music by black artists for a largely white teen-age audience.

Q. Are most movies still made for the teen-age audience?

At this point, the action-starved teen-age audience will surely be wondering, Is that all there is?

These days, Japanese films are geared mainly to teen-age audiences.