Letters to the Editor
jk rowling
Published Letters: 30 Editor's Choice: 1
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Romeo and Juliette?
[Read the article: "Flight of the Red Balloon"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is it about Juliette Binoche that makes us wonder... from how deep the human condition can be resurrected? As in "The Red Balloon," my childhood's fanciful culture, this remake is truly remarkable for its - as expressed perfectly, Stephanie -"unforced" ability to take us along for the flight back into what childhood means - even to adults.
Every man, even Yanks, succumb to the humaneness of Juliette's oft-expressed "artistic, flakiness-cum-passionate character" style. From "Dan in Real Life" to "Smylla's Sense of Snow," she has captured the men (and without doubt many women) in a kind of star-quality rapture - reminiscent of The 30's Movie Stars, yet of such tender gain as to be intelligible.
Making a movie these days in so light and transcendent fashion as this, defeats the terribleness of simpleton powers over the rest of media.
We do shine. It is as children that we all breathe deep inside.
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Yes, small is an expansive space
[Read the article: "The Visitor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Landlord? Yes, a million years ago there was poverty and race and class conflict. This director realises that the key chorus in his symphony must escape the dissonance of a New York gentrified and racially apartheid zeitgeist... to explore rhythms of simple human connection.
I doubt that his main character ever finds himself. We doubt that we ever will too. But placement in a zone of connection ensures the movie a resonating, pleasant, mild tonal quality that focuses us on character study, displacing plot-conflict.
If directors and writers feel the need to arrest development so, they would be wise to apply such an artifice - the main character's existential angst (with clearly-sympathetic loss), supporting and oppositional forces that compel a look inside via character interplay and subdued subject dialogue (silence) to embue the whole ensemble with clicheed eloquence.
In so constructing this world, the director took little risk about human nature except to placate an audience expecting the mildest of humiliation and character/society despair.
D+ for lack of guts, highjacking: Proof of life uncertain.
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SEAL PRESS IS BEING VICTIMIZED BY LACK OF CAPITAL, HIGH EXPECTATIONS
[Read the article: Seal Press scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is the market for WOC writers? The whole, entire world is not locked into some pre-conceived box stereotype - so the market is simply HUGE! If the debate is getting published, then the answer is YES or NO by any small publisher - reasons unnecessary.
If the argument is that being a WOC is extremely difficult, and let's just take this reality into the publishing world, then Affirmative Action out to be applied, but will NEVER be due to the obvious nature of both small and big business: they do what they want because they are legally permitted to.
If someone is serious about getting published, then getting noticed is not a bad way to go. Getting hammered may even be superior to being ignored. Entitlements occur among most of the privileged groups around the globe - even if the world is supposedly flat - what makes it all go 'round is debate, force and strength of argument to persuade those rich money people.
Why shouldn't this be headline, mainstream news instead of just another murder or condemnation of THEM vs. US?
It really really is not about being Right - it's about what it takes to succeed in a sexist domain. This is a good start... .
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Tina 30 Rocks! Oprah Struts...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Heather's robotic-bashing exploration of TV culture has nailed it once again. Liz Lemon could never be Oprah, and Gayle could never be Oprah's lover because... well, that's another story, but Alec Baldwin COULD convince Oprah to give it ALL away, of that I am certain.
We in the viewing audience would like to say a few words about Jen A., our former first lady of coming-of-middle-age comedy: ouch, puhleez don't do that!, who knew you and Oprah?? and why don't you just call Alec and do him, OK??!!
What TV lacks in higher values it makes up for in lowering lobes to the point that inner turmoil seems to justify normal American feelings of "I just want more money!" Charity, Liz's new position - who cares? - just show me the money, baby!
If we laugh at corruption on 30 Rock because its simple comic characters are the work of a genius (tina fey), then we must cry at deception on Oprah because they are not.
Leave Battlestar and Roombaa alone - they have enough trouble coming to terms with human emotion and non-robotic dogsphere.
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That American Life
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, irony! The little delusions in life drink our milkshake sometimes. Ira IS precious - the show brings so much to an already-failed empire - one would mistake it for a country full of human beings wanting more than material stuffing. If the camera angle is weird, we may believe in OUR fantasy of how the life is for the little girl, not hers, not the Iraqi's and not the well-intentioned producers.
What distinguishes and crowns the effort since Day 1 on public radio is this: Americans are curious about who The Other Guy really is. Because Americans, unlike Europeans, Asians, even Mexicans, really DO NOT know who THEY are.
And each week, on one (now) TV show, "this land is your land, this land is my land..." . It is not a quaint idea to observe and pay attention to human beings in the Empire, especially as they aspire and perspire to different rhythms than The Official Beat permits. In a nation of freedom, it really is amazing to learn just how diverse and irreverent people truly are. Heather, Ira thanks you! - voice of Johnny Depp