Letters to the Editor
jk rowling
Published Letters: 26 Editor's Choice: 1
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see art make sense
[Read the article: Remembering Bergman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His films tell us who people can become,
Hollywood offered no hope after war paranoia,
Sending the audience intimately inward...
He dangles our mutual existence with craft,
And so
His work remains among the pyramids of image,
Discovered again and again by those so weary,
Of beatings and trouncings galore,
End the stupidy of ill-expressed humanity...
You whore.
Imagine what his plays must have been! Now the audience focuses on the face of the little boy who... .
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Dems bring snakes, retreat into pop charms
[Read the article: The Democratic duel of the race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary carried a great python, but did not let it strangle.
Obama brought a cobra, but did not let it strike.
Edwards toted a spitting rattlesnake, but it did not kill.
Richardson, Dodd and Biden grabbed vipers from 711, but not any poison from 9/11.
Kucinich and Gravel have no need of any circus snakes.
H answered properly, but then backed into Pizza Hut, the secure cheesy place of candidate Denial.
O chose not to fight, but unite... 80 million reasons to not leave his lovers.
E played his smile-cards right, and then left too.
R.D.B. fiddled in the orchestra with background cymbals, horns.
K & G offered real entertainment, a sure bet for TV ratings.
All in all, Master Debaters scored once again on the issue that most Dems feel strongly about: Stop the Inhumanity!
And, paraphrasing a friend, "That's a GOOD thing."
Well, Harry Potter fans, Hermione would think so, wouldn't she?
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Denzel forced to eat Crowe
[Read the article: "American Gangster"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The movie isn't as awful as the review denounces, but clicheed editing and character portrayals hide a simple truth: Actors require direction to achieve a unified goal... a good film. The tectonic plates of industry meet the airy diatribe of art.
It's heroin vs. morality, with a little acting thrown in. If the project is BLADERUNNER, then Harrison Ford should play the Cop. If TRAINING DAY, then Denzel needs to play Scarface-in-a-nice-suit... sans self-destruction and caricatured accent.
But it's AN AMERICAN IN GANGSTERLAND - '60's Harlem - that we must visit without a Director's Pass. The screenwriter was so in love with his own work that he forgot to complete all three acts - instead, creating triple-plays, vignettes and signature pieces to "buck up" his rep - downright Hollywrite disrespect for the movie audience, surely smarter than nonse-quit-ers yet undone by magazines scribed for Oxford-on-Thames readers who rarely visit upon the hoi polloi, or any polloi, for that matter.
One strong character - The Gangster, one weak character - The Ultimate Fighting (cops' crime game) Champ = Audience Dismay.
STorytelling demands BAlance and VErve, not VOyeur-istic NErve!
Even Harry Potter couldn't hold up without Hermione, nee Mr."D" sans object d'vivre: Play against Type, Risk succumbing to Snype.
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arrogant fans won't stop me!
[Read the article: J.K. Rowling's Crucio curse on fan's Harry Potter book]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's simply horrible that these miserable little persons believe they can humble a giant of scribe such as me. My characters are no less impactful than that silly Bible, or even the masterful Steve King.
All the work - all the dole checks I had to cash - to make this work possible! And now these ingrates want to steal my creative domain for their own tiny little purses!
Dumbledorf would be incensed, Harry is alive soley due to my efforts. Cast a spell upon you, thieving obsessed fanatics!
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poverty is prejudice
[Read the article: Michelle Obama gets real]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's profile by Traister is... sort of, well, White.
There's no "sista' talkin'" points, and no finger snaps or real GOOD eye rolls.
And do you know why Rebecca has not included these "Off-the- Record" comments and expressions? Because there aren't any.
Yes, and now we come to the main program in the story - Black and Biracial and Educated and Tall-cheeseburg-eatin' Female-mommy-lawyers can know a lot of stuff and be funny too!!
What America really wants to know about candidates and their spouses, partners and/or consorts is this: Do they Jive?
A good partnership like the Clintons - catastrophic marital excursions, painfully-revealing TV accusations & humiliating admissions of infidelity caused by sex OCD - should not be repeated by the Obamas, please.
So, Rebecca - what's up with these guys? Are they - in your best reporter-snoopsense opinion - gonna' make it?!! OK.
And there's another thang here... people who are "just like us" ain't poor like I really am. Obama & Co. got bucks, and they deserve to be elected because, because... they're GOOD and smart and oh-so cleverly moral and ethical.
C'mon - this is American politics - where comedy and spin-liners win the day. Michelle is the monkey, albeit brilliant in dance and song-reading - Barack is the exotic Hawaiian import who has demonstrated he has what it takes to save our great nation from the 1% who Own Everything.
This piece is really all about a strong Black woman who won't shuck, jive or act stupid as a means to the victorious end.
Fantastic! Real people without handlers thinking for them.
Michelle Obama for President!
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Norman Mailer is really Dead - writers strike - Movies v. Net
[Read the article: Their favorite things]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1,000 years from now, aliens will find our bodies - all lying prostrate under a vast superscreen - with organic headphones bio-planted inside us. They will naturally ask a question -"What did this race DO?!" - to get like that.
And the answer will be this: Imagining Things - instead of building superior weapons to prevent Alien Invasions. We are now so literate and music-filled that the species can relax into perpetual rerun... no more war, thanx - just pop another pill of ART into my sensory system.
Other than Gutenberg and the Chinese, who started us down this hoary road of fascination? It was every single publisher who had the nerve to push a book, promote a song, produce a play or create an online mag to balance our unsteady hold of Real Things, that can devastate us.
Let us not overstate the case: good writing and music are the Cure for a world gone bigIgnorant and Dumb, but mindsharing via mass media (books, TV, radio, theNet) leads us to the real revolution in civilization.
"What books, music do you like?" may as well be: So - how is the human race doing this year, exactly? Of course, I'm just a biased writer of sorts...