Letters to the Editor
FatDavid8
Published Letters: 6
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Do the studios block blockbusters before blockbuster blocks blockbusters?
[Read the article: Does Blockbuster edit its movies?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]RE: editing by any other name
I think that the studios themselves often bizarrely bowdlerize the DVD releases of their own movies ... perhaps in anticipation of Blockbuster's/Wal-Mart's/Middle America's objections to content. For example, the DVD of "Ghost World" that I purchased from BestBuy is missing scenes that I saw in the theatrical release for the Rebecca/Josh hook-up (yikes! teens having sex!), thereby making Rebecca's & Enid's later squabbling seem less intelligible and screwing up the film a bit, but the DVD keeps the Enid/Seymour hook-up scenes (teenaged women having sex with middle-aged men is less objectionable than teenagers having sex with teenagers?!?!).
So, to my mind, Blockbuster's not having any balls where art is concerned isn't much of a surprise, and I see their policies as a perfectly predictable extension of a censoring culture. Why go after Blockbuster, which is at the end of the chain of production, when it's the studios themselves, the head of the chain, that are conspiring against our viewing interests?
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When Black Friday comes ... ?
[Read the article: Is "cyber Monday" real? Turns out, yes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So ... this doesn't have anything to do with Steely Dan?
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Calling Buck Turgidson?
[Read the article: Memo from U.S. Christian conservatives to Europeans: Have more babies!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Qoute: "I mean, we must be... increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over other mineshaft space, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out in superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow... a mine shaft gap!"
I can't help finding funny how relevant that little passage seems to this article. Nothing in the paranoid style of American politics ever really changes, does it? How sad that we're still having this conversation.
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...think of your potential kids, too
[Read the article: Will my boyfriend ever want kids and marriage?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most of the advice in the letters section seemt to be about you and what you want. Don't forget about your potential future kids. Keep in mind what Cary had to say about received transgenerational haunting. I, initially, was much like your boyfriend. I didn't want kids in my life. My position has softened over the years, but now I still don't want kids because I don't want to perpetuate or to expose a kid to the Faulkner novel that is my family's history and life. Make him work out his issues before having those kids.
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Mmmmmm ... Dana Scully ...
[Read the article: Scully have I loved]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with R.T. Like most, I initially found Mulder more engaging, but now, years later, I find I'm much more nostalgic about Scully and think of her as the driving force for most of the show's erotic charge. In the long run, Fox Mulder has turned out to be a bit of a Faux Smoulder; Dana Scully has staying power in my heart.
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Yikes!
[Read the article: Feminism via soap opera?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeeesh! No wonder America can't have an open conversation about race: every time a white person says anything about another group, it's apparently a sign that she is bigot and deserves all of the calumny that can be heaped upon her! Way to keep the dialogue open and respectful with those ad hominem attacks.