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'LIFE' LINES
Your article on A Day in the Life of Hollywood (#144, Nov. 13) was
excellent. I am only 13 years old, yet I am a huge movie fan and I
want to become an actor or a movie critic when I grow up. It showed
me (and everyone else) interesting
inside things of Hollywood. It was a great article and I hope you
continue to write more about it.
Paul Doro
De Pere, Wis.
What an insensitive and tasteless photo Entertainment Weekly published in its excerpt from A Day in the Life of Hollywood. Lisa
Fields, casting director, smiling while tossing a clearly
identifiable photo into a trash bin? Aren't actors maligned enough
without having to face their photos in a trash can? Come on. There
are certainly other ways to present how a casting office operates
without having to perpetuate the insensitivities of an already
difficult process.
Mindy Marin
Casting Director
Casting Artists, Inc.
Los Angeles
Editor's Note: The discarded glossy of Maili Bergman may have a happy ending: Since EW's Day in the Life excerpt appeared, The New York Times and The Washington Post have profiled the 22-year-old actress, who says she herself is unfazed by her photo's fate. ''At least I know my agent was putting me out there,'' Bergman says. ''Wouldn't it be great if someone saw the photo and gave me a ring?''
TERRORIST OVERKILL
Re: ''Harder It Falls'' (News & Notes), it galls me to think that
the terrific Die Hard series might be deep-sixed because of inferior
but popular movies like Under Siege ripping off
the terrorist-versus-lone hero theme and thereby overworking it to
death. One suggestion: The audience would still love Die Hard even if
the writers were to drop the terrorist scenario. The movie's
intelligence, wonderful acting, great action sequences reminiscent of
James Bond films, shared emotions, and nail-biting suspense were
some of the reasons people were drawn to Die Hard. Please pass this
information on to the studio heads out there who still have their
jobs.
Rita Nicosia
Riverside, Calif.
FAR OFF
Ty Burr's review of the video release of Far and Away might be
more acceptable if he knew more about its subject. Oklahoma had five
land runs — the first in 1889, then others in 1891, 1892, 1893, and
1895. The largest in both area and people involved was the one in the
movie: the opening of the Cherokee Strip on Sept. 16, 1893. It was,
therefore, ''the great Oklahoma land race.''
Fred Beers
Perry, Okla.
REMEMBERING RED
Thanks for Kelli Pryor's piece on Red Barber (#143, Nov. 6). Red
warmed many a heart on Friday mornings, his descriptions of daily
life and gentle humor bringing home what is real and truly important
in life. Red was the best 3.5 minutes radio could have given us, and
he was a friend to us all.
Greg Davis
Winston-Salem, N.C.
