IN regard to Jim Davidson's remark about Blackpool today, I would have said that it bears little resemblance to the town I remember in the 1970s in the sense that in my own opinion Blackpool's entertainment today has become 'Americanised', right down to the gloomy effect of the pub bars.

Our well-lighted pubs and clubs were paradoxically once the envy of the Yanks who used to come over here in droves yesteryear for one or two confessed so to my father -- "It's a joy to sit in the daylight of your English bars after those dark joints over there..."

Sadly, we would have appeared to have taken a pattern off them in this respect also.

As for the 'comedian's' comments about fat and unattractive young females of today. Well, if he's over fifty like I am, it should no longer matter and, in all sincerity, it wasn't the slim figures and the mini skirts that spoilt many of the females of the 1960's anyway -- it was their mouths! -- whereby although they looked attractive, that's the last think they were.

But virtually 95 per cent of what passes for entertainment today is mind narcosis -- which is a factor in why democracy has collapsed -- conversion of Pirate Radio into Radio 1 -- the cultivation of child music stars; boy bands etc.s This elevation of originally anarchic heavy metal musicians into, say -- homely national treasures (Ozzie Osborne etc) so on and so forth -- which is of course inclusive of the comedy scene too.

No disrespect to Jim Davidson but, quite frankly, todays comedy isn't comedy -- it's parody -- regardless of the brand of humour -- in a manner of speaking -- the only good comedian/enns in large part today are DEAD ones!!!

And, aside from all this, I also feel that a great, irreversible error (or weakness) has been made -- this country's failure to protect and safeguard its social, cultural and environmental heritage -- all this Americanisation hasn't done its heritage any good -- image-wise.

These people: The Spice Girls (Girl Power), Take That, Oasis etc. Americanised Rubbish -- foul language on the stand-up comedy front -- it's all American influence. Madonna thrown in.

But when someone of my age bracket gets in conversation about it all today, I suppose one cannot fault a young member of "the deranged generation" when they rightly respond: "They are not catering for you!".

Mr Trevor, Poulton-le-Fylde.