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Playing it Cool
What's cool: your ''Summer Cool'' issue (#333/334, June 28/July
5). What's uncool: putting the film Trainspotting on the cover
and then not devoting an entire article to it. There was more
information about Rosie O'Donnell — and her name doesn't even
appear on the cover!
David Woodruff
Dbwoodruff@aol.com
Irvine, Calif.
Many of the celebrities pictured in your Extreme Hall of Fame
look like the disciples of hell. No wonder Generation X likes
Tony Bennett.
Jean Sokol
Cleveland
So Downtown Julie Brown sometimes finds Nicolas Cage's
performances irritating. What a hoot, considering that her
performances on E!'s Gossip Show are irritating, aggravating,
and downright annoying all the time.
Jack Duffy
Springfield, Ill.
So Helen Hunt thinks Very Special Episodes of TV shows are
''uncool.'' She must have hated the last few weeks of Mad About
You even more than I did!
Steven Hershkowitz
StevenUSA@aol.com
Wood-Ridge, N.J.
You show a picture of Joi Gilliam and indicate she is ''cool.''
But in some circles, the two teardrop-shaped markings she
displays in the photo are gang symbols representing murder: Two
teardrops indicate two confirmed kills. I certainly would not
suggest this woman has killed anyone, but the fact that you
glorify this look only helps to legitimize gang culture.
Howard Johnson
North Plainfield, N.J.
Editor's Note: Gilliam's makeup artist claims the idea for the teardrops was influenced by the French pantomime character Pierrot, and that no reference to gang symbols was intended.
Your Extreme Cool feature was disheartening. Marilyn Manson and
Taco Bell ads gather praise in our pop-culture-cannibal country,
while true artists such as musical genius Frank Zappa, poet
Charles Bukowski, and filmmaker F.W. Murnau are ignored. But I
give you credit: Your article on Natalie Portman was deserved,
as was the article on the Preacher comic.
Lou Dirker
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
The Common Element
In Ty Burr's video review of Mr. Holland's Opus, he says Richard
Dreyfuss is in his ''hambone-common man element.'' Would this be
in the tradition of Jimmy Stewart? Or Spencer Tracy, perhaps?
Paul E. Swansiger
New Castle, Pa.
Mozart Forum
Your mail-page correction was, I'm sure unintentionally,
hilarious. The confusion between Moss Hart and Mozart reminds me
of a Seinfeld exchange in which there was confusion between the
words salsa and seltzer. Keep the fun comin'.
Michael Spielman
Brea, Calif.
Corrections: Anthony Hopkins was nominated for a 1995 Best Actor Oscar (Video); Mel Gibson, who was not nominated in this category, won Best Director. A photo of actor Ewen Bremner (p. 73) was misidentified. The sunglasses (p. 16) are by Christian Roth for Optical Affairs.
