Letters to the Editor
Leoniceno
Published Letters: 17 Editor's Choice: 1
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Not relevant?
[Read the article: Guillermo del Toro to make "Hobbit" films: Bleah!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know whether this film adaptation will be good or not-- I thought the animated adaptation was fine, in any case-- but we've been telling ourselves stories in this vein for the past several thousand years, and I hardly think we're going to stop now. And those television shows you mention all have the same old universal themes.
Further, it's a misperception that old epics like Beowulf lack subtle emotion.
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Just saying
[Read the article: "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You really are an excellent movie critic, and Salon is lucky to have you. I always enjoy reading your work. Off to the midnight showing of this film!
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Sexuality
[Read the article: Equality, shmequality! Just become a man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I disagree with the person quoted who said that these women 'stripped away their sexuality.' Around 1% of any population is asexual, and naturally doesn't desire sex. It seems to me that for women of that orientation, the decision to become a sworn version would be easier--although there would still be the matter of gender identity.
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Yeah
[Read the article: Joe Biden steps up for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like Biden, and I think the speech was good, but I don't think 'Barack America' was the biggest goof. What made me chuckle was when Biden said:
"He will have such an incredible opportunity, incredible opportunity, not only to change the direction of America but literally, literally to change the direction of the world."
He'll literally change the direction of the word? Shades of Christopher Reeve. Biden seems to say 'literally' instead of 'uh' or 'ah' or something more traditional like that. Of course I don't think such verbal tics are important--just amusing.