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'X'-static Thank you for putting The X-Files where it belongs-on your cover ( 265, March 10)! I am so excited to see an in-depth article about my favorite show. I've watched it since its premiere and will stay with it until its demise, which I hope is nowhere in the immediate future. The X-Files offers smart, quality television that doesn't go for a simple scare but attempts to frighten the intellect. Kuan-Lin ''Connie'' Wang Sherman Oaks, Calif.

I think The X-Files is the most imaginative, intelligent, and ingenious show on television. It takes viewers on a roller-coaster ride each week into a harrowing and haunting world where anything can and does happen. If The X- Files has taught us anything, it is not that there may be intelligent alien life out there, but that there is intelligent human life here, and that a man and a woman can have an affectionate, nonsexual relationship. Lisa Holman Joplin, Mo.

The greatest mystery surrounding The X-Files is how a TV series with incoherent, tortuous, and anticlimactic plotlines can be such a hit. Our generation must be desperate for ''paranormal'' entertainment. Or maybe we've been hypnotized by extraterrestrials who think this stuff is entertainment. D.C. James Eagleville, Tenn.

Less is Moore

Demi Moore is getting $12.5 million to bare it all in a movie role? Too bad Tom Cruise doesn't have to take off his briefs to command such a high salary for his portrayals in motion pictures. So much for women in the arts taking a step forward! Ximena V. Marin West Hollywood, Calif. lost in 'space

I would like to commend Entertainment Weekly for taking the magazine into cyberspace. I'm sure all the members of America Online will love having instant access to ''virtually everything in each week's EW.'' But what about the rest of us out here in cyberspace who do not subscribe to that on-line service? Mark Sloop azureNovalink.com Huntersville, N.C.

Editor's Note: Selected EW articles are also available on the Internet via the World Wide Web at http://pathfinder.com/ew/.

'Party' Line

If Fox cancels Party of Five, I'd vow never to watch Melrose Place and Beverly Hills, 90210. Party of Five is the best show yet on its network. Jill Freeman jilltwin1Aol.com Redmond, Wash.

Cat Tale

I too was one of those kids mesmerized by Julie Newmar's Catwoman, something that's affected my dating choices for my entire life! I couldn't figure out why brunets in black moved me much more than blonds in bikinis. Now I know! Scott Raile raileSpot.colorado.edu Boulder, Colo.