Letters to the Editor
SoFla Kate
Published Letters: 72 Editor's Choice: 4
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Perfect reading
[Read the article: Day of reckoning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I too have often slammed Heather's articles, but this was a terrific reading of this show, managing to shed light on the final chapter without revealing too much. Thanks, Heather!
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Tiny correction
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It wasn't that Drama imagined his massage therapist to be gay; the masseur thought Drama was coming on to him..
Otherwise, your assessment of the Entourage "dicktards" (love it!) is mostly right-on. As for Ari, yes, he is about the only real attraction. Lloyd is the other one.
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FOUR corrections!
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"First annual 'I Like to Watch' Comedy Festival"?
It's not "annual" until you've had it at least twice. Get some copy editors who know what they're doing, fer crap's sake.
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Yes, SNL is good again
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm one of those diehard fans of the Not Ready for Primetime Players who frequently puts down the newer casts, and I agree that it IS funny again. Especially Update. Agreed, Rob, that it sucked when Tina Fey was there and is funny again now she's not.
The latest Bush impersonator is way better than the guy he replaced. An impression is not always an impersonation - Chevy Chase didn't look or sound like Gerald Ford, but he captured him. The previous Bush (why do I not know the men's names?)does many good things, including his awesome Zell Miller.
I used to like MAD TV but they're nowhere near as good as they should be on tape.
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Yes, but. . .
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In fact, if the fist years of SNL were still regularly re-run, I think it would become obvious how unfunny, how lame, the humor often was.That doesn't mean there weren't great skits. There were. But they don't represent the typical quality level. And a lot of those returning characters would seem pretty dull today.
Except that those sketches laid the groundwork for stuff that you say is now lame today. And your argument is like saying, "Well, Roger Clemens (or whoever) would strike out Babe Ruth every time." Doesn't diminish Ruth one bit.
Would we find Lisa Lubner funny today? Hell yes.
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Tony and his "sons"
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Carmela's badly built McMansion is a metaphor for the whole Soprano family. Tony is going down and dragging AJ and Christopher with him. I don't give a shit how much he whines about wanting to save AJ or Christopher or anyone else.
First he tells Christopher to start drinking again to fit in. (He actually equates his dietary restrictions with alcoholism! I was waiting for him to drag in his stupid "What ever happened to Gary Cooper?" bullshit for the umpteenth time.)
Then he prescribes a good old-fashioned night of drinking at a strip club for AJ's depression. He'd just burst with pride if he knew about the bonus torture.
Tony can't stand anyone, even his own blood, getting better or becoming normal. Remember how he needled Janice into an explosive reaction, when she was showing signs of controlling her anger? And what did he do when Paulie made thhat obscene crack about Christopher's daughter ending up as a stripper? That wasn't Christopher imagination - he was enjoying the destruction of clean-and-sober Christopher.
"My husband is not a vindictive man," Carmela claimed to Janice in the opener of this mini-season. Self-delusion No. 842, Carmela.
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You mean Tony "Prince Matchabelli" Soprano of Captain Teebs?
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . as he waits for negotiations, official procedures and what not to develop, he relaxes by the pool, reading Dostoevsky. He is distracted by the flight overhead of a group of ducks; as he cranes his neck to watch them, out from the bushes lunges the Russian from season whatever to brain him with a shovel. Yeah?
Uh, no.
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Over-sensitivity Alert
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here], . . .
Uh, no.
Uh, it was, like, a joke?
Uh, I was, like, also playing?
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The ghost of Adriana
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Christopher's demons are obviously haunting him, and I believe they will be Tony's downfall.
True, and how ironic, considering Tony let him in on all this stuff to "draw him closer" and guarantee silence -- because family are too loyal to rat each other out. (This from a man whose own mother wanted him dead.)
As for the theories that Silvio shot Adriana and walked away, leaving her only wounded? Please, Silvio is nothing if not a pro.
Speaking of that: Remember just after Adriana's murder in the woods, the camera kind of panned around across the treetops and the next thing we knew Carmela and Tony were standing on her future-home site. With all the construction problems around that house, it's clearer than ever that Adriana's death was a mark of doom.
Carmela has now built two homes on evil foundations destined to crumble.
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Carmela's love
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Furio
Perhaps Artie Bucco will find poetic justice by cooking Tony his final meal of spicy sausage and peppers.
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Yes, what of Uncle Junior?
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The actor playing him said in an interview that he likes how Jun goes out. Somehow I don't see it's with him dying in the chair petting the cat. (Did that remind anyone else of the final shot from "Godfather II"?)
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Most telling
[Read the article: Answers for Joe Klein]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . his colleagues routinely speak of [Broder] in the hushed, awed tone they typically reserve for John McCain and Joe Lieberman.
Journalists speaking in "hushed, awed tones" about the people they cover. That's it in a nutshell.
By the way, check out "The Boys on the Bus," chronicling the press corps in the 1972 presidential campaign, for Hunter Thompson's take on what a hack Broder is. He claims to have made a nice pile of cash just by automatically betting AGAINST Broder's picks in every single primary.
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I'm just relieved . . .
[Read the article: The impertinent prince]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . that he didn't give the Queen one of those insulting frat-boy nicknames he insists on using. "Hey, Tin Lizzie . . ."
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I'm a Jane Fonda fan
[Read the article: "Georgia Rule"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I'm not going to see "Georgia Rule" (Jane Fonda as a cranky grandmother who straightens out her estranged daughter and troubled granddaughter by being cranky), because I've alreay seen "On Golden Pond" (Henry Fonda as a cranky grandfather who straightens out his estranged daughter, played by Jane Fonda, and her troubled teen-aged son by being cranky).
Is there a Katharine Hepburn-like granddad in this movie who calls Jane "an old poop"?