'Hope' and Glory
Thank you for the wonderful pictures and article on Chicago Hope(#326, May 10). Finally you realized that there are two medical
dramas on television. What took you so long?!?!?!
Dianne Armstrong
DArmstr133@aol.com
Oshawa, Ontario
I have three words regarding your cover on Chicago Hope: It's
about time.
Lisa Ward
LisaWard@best.com
San Jose, Calif.
'One' That Got Away
It's sad to see that ABC may cast aside a great show like Murder
One for what will likely be an inferior hour of TV next season.
Although I'm generally in full agreement with your reviews, Ken
Tucker was way off base on his assessment of Murder's Daniel
Benzali. Benzali is the glue that binds the show together.
Phil Sulak
shadowpaw@aol.com
Austin, Tex.
Might Makes 'White'
In response to the Tony Hendra piece [on The Great White Hype]:
Hendra's statement that in 1990 he had ''an idea'' made me see
red. I approached Tony with the idea of doing a boxing film
similar in style to Spinal Tap. He jumped at the opportunity.
Hendra's statement that Ron Shelton was signed on as
writer-director is simply not true. Shelton made it clear to me
that he was writing the screenplay for me to direct. Ultimately,
as often happens in Hollywood, Fox decided to pay me my
director's fee and instead go with Reggie Hudlin.
Neil Leifer
New York City
Smoke and Mirrors
Thanks for pointing out the excessive smoking in Mulholland
Falls (''Excess of the Week''). Perhaps you should include a ''Puff
Quotient'' in all your film reviews. (Are the screenwriters
taking payola from the tobacco companies?) If The Ten
Commandments were remade today, Moses would probably use the
burning bush to light up his stogie.
Ralph W. Daniel
Marietta, Ga.
Was it a coincidence that an ad two pages before your review of
Pamela Anderson Lee in Barb Wire touts the ''Genetic engineering''
marvels of The New Dodge? Couldn't the same claim be made of
Anderson?
Marc Vanasse
New Milford, Conn.
Bois on the Snide
In Jim Mullen's latest Hot Sheet, he writes: ''MICHAEL
JACKSON — He bought a $12 million chateau in France. He liked the
place as soon as he heard the name: Petit Bois.'' I envy Mullen
his job. I don't know of very many people in the media who could
sustain a permanent job by showing such limited creativity.
Helen Peterson
Minneapolis
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