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Ballsee I agree with your post.
TC in LA: very constructive what you shared. There's an essay there that would help many. By the way, yes it is Charisma but in major celebs, with exceptions o' course, it's charisma sqared exponentially, it's charisma-- beyond the beyond. Their faces and auras and bodies really do change under the glare of movie cameraa or the public...
@Demoted. I think it's time we let Joan (Walsh) and the letter readers who give such random red stars as if we in pre-school but we cannot see the "teachers"--time to give them some flak. I have already done so. But we need more to make it change. The red stars are rarely the best written posts, maybe the earliest posts or the most complimentary ones, but beats me how they give (and now un-give) they did that??? very strange their "editor's picks"... It is bad mainly beccause brilliant letters and I don't mean yours or mine, don't get read. Red= most read.
I think we among ourselves, as is done on NYTimes forums and many other places, WE SHOULD VOTE for which letter or letters are best to us. That is a bit tricky because folks will always play favorites and it would be hard work but I'd volunteer 12 hours a week to this issue. Because it's unfair to readers not to mention annoying for us who write. I think that would make so much more sense...
I was actually thinking about writing, tongue in cheeck, to advice columnist Cary Tennis starting with: "I write a lot of letters." Followed by "I think I deserve more red stars and my existing ones are often letters that suck... " So, let's start bugging the letter readers and the management. You have s red star from me right now. I know, it doesn't replace the other.
Anyone want to protest this invisible and not very smart matter...????
