Letters to the Editor
carrrie
Published Letters: 196 Editor's Choice: 8
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Somewhat true
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]But Heath Ledger is not the comparison to make. We don't know that much about his private life, but as shocking and sad as his death has been, the media seems intent on making it much worse with rumors and innuendo (if that's at all possible). With Britney, Anna Nicole, Lindsay Lohan, you don't really need any gossip or informed sources to secretly slip that they're completely unhinged.
That being said, I think the people following Britney and getting rich off of her public meltdown are horrid individuals. I actually didn't feel that sorry for her for some reason until HL died, and I'm trying to figure that out. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that when HL died, I couldn't believe it and followed a link which led me to TMZ, which led me to an article about HL dying, and then to a premorbid article about HL wearing a ridiculous purple hat and needing to get his style sense together. So much for the gender respect. (What we wouldn't give to see him parading about in his purple hat now.) And the girls get that kind of thing 10 times worse. Someday we may actually be missing Britney.
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thank you kitchengirl once again
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What seems to be implied in this whole thing is that because Heath Ledger ended up dead he was as unstable as Britney. Doubt it seriously.
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Laurie in NY
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wasn't going to post anymore on this subject, but you were spot on in your first rant decrying the comparison between Heath Ledger and BS, but I've been hearing this comparison more and more and it's really pissing me off. First of all if all the people who had difficulties in their lives and dressed funny were destined to die young, we'd all die young. That HL is dead doesn't make him the train wreck BS is. Lots of train wrecks live long miserable lives (Marlon Brando anyone?).
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@neilpaul
[Read the article: Old women got the blues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like your way of thinking, if not typing.
Didn't I just read somewhere that a study came out saying that all middle-aged people all over the world were also depressed? Maybe it's because we're all doomed. Hope not.
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i enjoyed this
[Read the article: How does a single father ever get laid?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I also enjoyed the old life section. Remember Match Made in Heaven/Match Made in Hell? That was fun reading like this. Enlightening too, rubber vaginas, who knew?
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health food stores
[Read the article: Hey, skinny bitch!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]carry a large variety of soy, meat and dairy products. I don't trust the FDA or USDA, but I do buy organic chicken and beef once in a while along with soy ice cream, veggie burgers but always real cheese and lots of veggies. I don't want to be a skinny bitch for one thing, and it does sound as if they just want to be superior. I have an aunt who is always telling me what to watch on TV. I don't need television-watching instructions just like I don't need anyone else in my head telling me I suck for drinking coffee. Where is this idea coming from that everyone wants a boss of their own lives? I've been to Weight Watchers and saw plenty o'fat vegetarians. It seems they eat tons of carbs. It bothers me that people would buy a book in order to be insulted.
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okay
[Read the article: Hey, skinny bitch!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]this is where it goes bad, when people start saying: This is how I am (good) and this is how you are (you suck), that reduces the level of exchange to mud wrestling. Someone wrote a while back about Bill Maher. I agree with much of what he says; however, when he becomes dogmatic (all drugs are bad cuz I say so) he loses all credibility and begins to sound like Rush Limbaugh. There are points to be made about the food we eat in this country and the drugs we take, but categorizing all people who do one thing as ignorant/ugly/lazy/greedy is not the way to make your point. I do that sometimes with those obnoxious fundamentalist Christians, must try to stop.
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go ahead
[Read the article: My ex wants our 14-year-old daughter to witness his new wife's childbirth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your first instinct may be to hurl, but if you calm down and think things over you'll realize that this is something that probably won't detract from your relationship with your daughter. You love her, she loves you, and that's all separate and apart from the relationship she will have with her father and his family. Cary's advice is again not only correct but very comforting and thoughtful.
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durianjoe
[Read the article: Too great to be good]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you're so right about Viggo Mortensen. I haven't seen this movie because it's not my thing, but the problem to me is that there are good actors out there whose movies don't get the attention that films like TWBB get, and it's just too bad. Daniel Day Lewis may often be over the top, but he often delivers good performances. More often than not, actors are just better than the material they're given to perform, and someone should write an article about that. Who cares if DDL goes overboard or not, sometimes he's pretty good. Someone else who is very good that you see rarely is Joseph Gordon Levitt. The Lookout was just great.
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eastern promises/DJ
[Read the article: Too great to be good]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I saw that and didn't watch it thru my fingers. I actually enjoyed the fight scene in the steam room. You don't see that too often, and you're right about the violence--it was not cartoonish at all. I like it when dramatic movies don't treat their characters or situations as jokes as too often they do, but those seem to be the movies that get the most attention. Enjoy the Lookout.
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If we didn't have GC
[Read the article: Curious George]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to tell us everyone and everything sucks, we wouldn't know it. He's so insightful.