Getting this article done was no easy task, and I think it shows in the finished product. It has been a labor of love, and I hope to have made a contribution to the fall 2011 issue of T E News. Entertaiment has a complex and multifaceted nature, which is probably one of the reasons it has become so highly industrialized and is capable of influencing such varied areas of the world. In one sense it may be a means of attaining perception and highbrow growth, in another it might be a method of cruelty, or both. The word derives from the medieval Latin inter tenere, meaning to hold inside.