Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 31 Editor's Choice: 5
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We did see the same movie, right?
[Read the article: "Brokeback Mountain"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I usually like Stephanie's reviews, but this one makes me wonder if I was in a really good mood when I saw "Brokeback" a couple of months ago or if Stephanie was in a really bad one.
I liked the movie a lot, and I thought that the women in were far more realised than they were in the short story- and I thought that Anne Hathaway's final scene was breathtaking: her slight vocal hiccups as she talks to Ennis spoke volumes.
Complaining that "One minute they're kissing hungrily and furtively, reunited after spending many years apart; the next they're cuddling on a motel bed, sharing whispered hopes and fears about their future, or lack thereof." makes me wonder what she wanted to see there? The only part I can think of that would be in between those two shot would be somthing that would have been produced by Falcon Studios.
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open door at 30000 feet
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, the paper is printing a literal truth: the man was trying to open the door of the plane. It's just not as sexy to let everybody know that he had as much chance of actually getting the door open as he did changing the altitude by jumping up and down.
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Rachael-bashing
[Read the article: Bite me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't like Rachael Ray. I think her food is barely above Applebee's, and I find her grating. But I'm a foodie a$$hole; my first job was selling pastries at Dean and deLuca and I can whip up puff pastry from the depths of a coma. As much as I am entertained by Anthony Bourdain being forced to be pleasant while eating Yak's testes in the Amazon (or worse for him perhaps, a chili-dog in Los Angeles), Ms Ray is actually doing somewhat of a service. She's there every day letting those people who think of the kitchen as the room with the big hot thing in it (as a friend of mine refers to it) can actually be used to cook. In the amount of time it takes to pick up from Applebee's, and that's a good thing. It seems churlish at best to do more than silently judge her.
Unlike that "Semi-Homemade" bit#h. I'm sorry, I've seen her do desserts with store-bought angel-food cake, canned pie filling and canned frosting, and more than once. That's sick and wrong and has to be stopped.
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Mellencamp concert
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Danny Quayle. Forgotten but not gone....
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"barf-o" indeed
[Read the article: Rachael Ray, my dinner hooker]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Racheal Ray bugs me.
I find her grating and a lot of her recipes fudge the 30 minute factor. I do however have to respect her for showing people that in the time it takes to pick up the carbo-cruncher special at KFC, you can actually cook a decent meal that will not only taste good but may even not raise your cholesterol level higher than your zip code. I prefer Ina Garten, but I can see where her hop-in-the-bimmer-to-buy-fresh-microgreens bit can be intimidating. As for Sandra Lee, of the two shows of her I sat through, both of them featured desserts using store-bought angel food cake, canned pie filling and canned frosting.
Bitch has to be stopped!
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Dennis Prager
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was forced in the interest of being PC to listen to this shmoo for a while, since I had an employee who liked it. Two of the gems I can remember this idiot coming up with were A) The "Star Wars" defense is not only great for shooting down enemy missiles, it would help us to destroy any meteors that were hurling towards earth (like we could do anything more that write our initials in it before it pasted the planet into a new ice age) and B) road work on residential thoroughfares like Topanga Canyon in Malibu should be done at night, because fat talk show hosts are inconvenienced by having to sit in traffic when going from Aryan Acres in the valley to Santa Monica, and are unable to determine what "detour" signs actually mean.
Thankfully, the radio was accidentally broken and replaced by a CD player.
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Hmmm
[Read the article: Going mobile]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reading this article made me wonder if Farhad has actually ever tried to use a regular cell phone. I have a web-enabled Motorola KRZR K1M with Verizon's supposedly "better" operating system. I rarely use it to try to take a picture or send an email or SMS because A) Verizon seems intent on boning me for fifty cents every time I want to and B) the process of taking and saving the photo or composing and sending the SMS is so clunky and hidden behind multiple menus that I don't even bother: by the time I'd have had it ready to go Britney's panty-flash is over or I could have just called my friend and told them about it. The brilliance of the iPhone is that it actually makes these features useable. The brilliance of Apple is that they once again have come up with an interface that is so natural and so right that you want to slap your forehead and go "Duh!".
Yes, I wish it was cheaper. Yes, I wish it had more storage capacity. Yes, I wish it worked with Verizon. Yes, I wish it would make me a nice sandwich, cure cancer, and bring back "Buffy"
Oh wait, it might just do the last one, at least in reruns. Where do I sign up for this again?
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Oprah's past.
[Read the article: What Oprah can't forget]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, if you want to scutinise Oprah's benighted childhood as some sort of clue as to why she opened a school, fine. She had a crummy childhood and opened a school that will help hundreds, perhaps thousands of girls. She could have taken her millions and just bought herself another mansion or a yacht or a Malawian baby or three and no-one would have blinked an eye.
Frankly, I'd rather have that sort of Narcissist for president that the one we have at present.