Letters to the Editor
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Chris Penn...Five pages in Salon???
Let me be up front: I only read the first page and then skimmed the third and fourth page, but as James Agee said regarding the poor review he gave a production of "Oklahoma" he had not actually seen: "I don't have to see 'Oklahoma' to know it plays badly." My response to this article is in the same vain: I don't have to read it to know its ridiculous. Chris Penn gets five pages on Salon? "A Caravaggio-like dancing teen." Is she serious? The speed with which the writer got this out following his death and the depth of her passion tell me this has been sitting around her desk as a personal musing for awhile. Look, as a kid I had a crush on the actor A. Martinze when he starred in the TV series "The Cowboys" but I'm pretty sure he is not worth five pages. Serious or amusing takes on contemporary culture make for lots of guilty pleasure reading. But the level of sincerity and the exaggerated language make this article seem, well, stupid.