But teen-age fans of video games at the Pavilion said the new policy there seemed arbitrary, because the video games they are still allowed to play also have violent themes.

THE Pope wasn't the only spiritual celebrity besieged by teen-age fans during his visit to St. Louis in January.

Monday was a good night to be a teen-age heavy-metal fan in New York City.

Kino, whose first tape was produced by Boris Grebenshikov, the Soviet underground rock idol of the group Aquarium, quickly became popular among teen-age fans eager for black-market tapes.

The main attraction was someone not known for making policy pronouncements: Geri Halliwell, revered by screaming teen-age fans as Ginger Spice.

This time it's Dolly Parton who is the object of convenient hero worship from a teen-age fan.

In some ways, the essential dynamics of teen-age fans have not changed much since the days of the Beatles.

Mr. Joyu, whose dashing looks won him thousands of teen-age fans, had been running Aum since the cult's leader, Shoko Asahara, was arrested in May.

He also recruited a new, awestruck, teen-age fan, me.

When his band plays Roxanne, a warehouse club here with all the intimacy of an airplane hangar, some 2,000 mostly teen-age fans routinely show up, and they know all the words.