Letters to the Editor
siberryfan
Published Letters: 3 Editor's Choice: 1
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One of my Fave Actresses
[Read the article: "Last Holiday"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Taxi" was on cable during the holiday season, and when I was home for Christmas and the New Year, I watched it at least 6 times. I know, it's a silly movie. But it made me laugh quite a lot, and I was simply impressed with and enthralled by Queen Latifah. She absolutely ran away with so many scenes, I just wanted to watch her over and over again. While she didn't have much challenging material to work with, she made the most out of trite dialogue and cliches, securing a spot on my list of my favorite actresses. If you give in and decide to watch "Taxi," for average entertainment, pay close attention to Queen Latifah in the "He winked at me" scene: she's perfect.
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My Apologies for Listening in on Your Conversation, Mr. Baldwin
[Read the article: When good actors do bad things]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Alec Baldwin, younger or older, trim or husky, tired or refreshed need only enter a scene and I am titillated. He oozes confidence, sensuality, wisdom, and humor subtly and strongly. I don’t know him, and I don’t pretend to know him. But I do feel like I know him, I feel like he’s working for me. Sure, millions of viewers are watching the same scenes as I am, but he’s talking to me. Countless women around the world, no doubt, share that very same feeling.
So clicking on a link to hear that message is embarrassing and a sort of betrayal to my man. Eavesdropping on a private moment of his makes me one of the fans he’d likely not be fond of. But I did it. And I am sorry. I apologize, Mr. Baldwin. And I wish you as much peace as you may find during this awful, unfair, and unjustified period of unwanted, unexpected scrutiny and criticism of your personal life.
Listening to the message, I changed the characters to my father and me. But my father would have been far more threatening and mean. “A thoughtless little pig?” Ha! “Straighten you out?” HaHA! That’s nothing! Without turning this note into a story about my childhood relationship with my father (and boy, do I have the stories to do so), far more hateful, despicable displays of anger were thrown around our household, and that is with married parents. And surprise, my 6 siblings and I are all successful, professional, “stable” adults leading honorable and love-filled lives.
The fact that a judge suspended Baldwin’s visitation rights due to this harmless, albeit nasty, rant is in itself the very scary issue here. Very scary, indeed.
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Let's See: Who can we add that no one's ever thought of?
[Read the article: Sexiest Man Living 2007]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I chose to read the article because I wanted, not to read your contributors rattle off names I expected, but to see whether I agreed with any selections. I suspect many readers did the same. And I wanted to see whether any names I guessed would be included were, in fact, selected.
Peter Sarsgaard was a very nice surprise. Alec Baldwin - definitively sexy, but, ho-hum: you've told us this over and over. But suicide as sexiness? A woman as sexiest man? Who are half these guys? Introduce me to them for their talents and substance when you can dedicate space to them... not by telling me you're hot for them.
Shameless self-indulgence. Name-droppers. This article reminds me of the high-school students who raved about "unknown" or underground bands, but once those bands gained popularity, the students cried "sell-out!"
The "us" in "...who really drive us mad" is narrowly limited to the contributors to the article, and not to the Salon community as a whole. Once a premium member, I cancelled last year when content bored me and didn't teach me anything more. Still cancelled.