Letters to the Editor
carrrie
Published Letters: 193 Editor's Choice: 8
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having just read
[Read the article: "Mamma Mia!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]your review of Batman and all the letters that followed, I know a lot of readers would like you to get out of the movie reviewing business, but I would not like that at all. I just find your reviews amazing. You might be right about this one. I liked the trailer and I like the cast, but I believe I'll have to go elsewhere to find an objective review. Whenever you say the cast or a character in a movie "seems to be" portraying something in a certain way, I can never really believe you. And like a lot of posters on the Batman review, you really do seem to hate movies. I read a review in the New Yorker that didn't like Batman and one in Slate that did, and I think both of them were more enlightening than any of your reviews. To say that C. Nolan effed up because he's not like Hitchcock or hasn't seen a Hitchcock movie and he's made this huge extravaganza--?? The headline on that should have been: Zacharek to Nolan: You're no Hitchcock!
That would have left us scratching our heads.
Now your problem is that Meryl Streep seems to be having TOO MUCH FUN just to prove old women can have fun. OUTRAGEOUS. Truly, you amaze me in a car wreck, can't stop reading this stuff kinda way. And you just keepa goin.
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sorry klytus
[Read the article: "Mamma Mia!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't mean to write so much about BM, but I read the review and the letters and wasn't going to post, but then I read this and it was so alike. I mean so off the mark. Her problem with this movie seemed to be that people were romping and singing on a Greek Island and enjoying each other's company and being too skinny in bathing suits. From her review I also gather that the music is by Abba. Just amazing. Yes she said it wasn't fun enough and some performances were leaden. Guess I'll just take her word for it. Oh yes, some people were singing badly but those were the good performers and the good singers were the bad performers which I suppose could be true. Oh who knows.
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i cant stop posting
[Read the article: "Mamma Mia!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks to whoever for the caption under the double photo. Left: Meryl Streep in "Mamma Mia." Right: Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight." Thanks for clearing that up for me. Ever so helpful.
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tomreedtoon
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have both a dog and a cat who coexist beautifully, you nutcase. Why must you be so extreme and emphatic in your opinions? Anyone who owns 52 cats has more problems than just loving cats. I must however concede that I am teetering on the brink of insanity myself to be writing to you.
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what seems implausible
[Read the article: I was masturbating in my office to kinky Internet porn when another mom walked in]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is the idea that this nothing incident has gotten LW so rattled she can't enjoy sex with her husband. It's childish and ridiculous. Maybe this will reassure her. If this friend is as conservative as LW believes, she probably keeps the most outrageous collection of print porn imagineable under her bed. Just stands to reason. Another thing that stands out as not quite right with this letter is that the LW sounds very honest and open about her sexuality yet waited 20 years to fill her husband in on sexual preferences when she was fully aware of them well before that time. Cary's right. She needs therapy and that's not a bad thing at all. The letter is just irritating, maybe that's why everyone calls it a fake. It does have that penthouse forum flavor about it, only dumber.
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whenever
[Read the article: My friend has gone bad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]someone refuses to acknowledge that they've kept you waiting for hours, changes plans without telling you and then gets angry with you for asserting yourself, it's unfortunately over. She's telling you that this is how it's going to be. You obviously don't like it and with good reason. You don't necessarily need to fire her on the spot, just know that the next time you two make plans together it will be this way and excuse yourself for whatever reason. Don't go away mad, just go away, take your good memories with you. It is too bad.