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Power Outs

For the ''Hey, you left out ... '' file in your ''Power'' issue (#350, Oct. 25): What about FCC chairman Reed Hundt? As one of four commissioners who interpret the Children's Television Act, among other duties, his decisions affect the nature of the entire TV industry. A lot of the others on your list (a) really, really hope his decisions favor them, and (b) have to respect them whether they do or not. I think that's as good a definition of power as any.
Aaron Cappocchi
Sun Valley, Calif.

How could you not include George Lucas? He owns Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm Ltd., and was key in the creation of Star Wars and Indiana Jones. He has changed the way movies are made, and with a new set of Star Wars movies coming out, he is sure to do it again.
Clint Bond
Gardner, Kan.

No Howard Stern or Rush Limbaugh ... ?
Rus Harper
Muskogee, Okla.

The No. 1 most powerful person in entertainment is always the consumer, because that's who determines whether the others on the list even remain employed, let alone ''powerful.'' And anybody on the list who doubts that is not likely to be on there for very long.
Clark Brooks
Sarasota, Fla.

Music Musings

I stumbled onto Tony Scherman's review of the new Mary Chapin Carpenter album, A Place in the World, and offer a small correction: Duke Levine is not the guitarist responsible for the ''wretchedly generic theatrics'' on the song ''The Better to Dream of You.'' I am.
John Jennings
Nashville

No Holy War

In your review of Michael Collins, you call the movie one about a religious war where religion is almost entirely absent. To clarify this point, you should be aware that the Anglo-Irish War was not one of religion but of freedom from foreign rule. While the religious trump card is always played in order to make this appear a Catholic-versus-Protestant conflict, some of the greatest nationalists in Irish history have been non-Catholics (i.e., Charles Stewart Parnell, Theobald Wolfe Tone, and Roger Casement).
Bill Brennan
Glen Ridge, N.J.

Lourdes Have Mercy

Looks like she's already a Hollywood baby. I was frankly astonished to see Madonna's baby's diary in your issue. We have been running little Lourdes' journal on E! Online (www.eonline.com) since the day Madonna announced she was pregnant. And the conniving little fetus promised us we'd have an exclusive!
Lew Harris
Editor in Chief, E! Online
Los Angeles

CORRECTIONS: Under the Chinese lunar calendar, Madonna was born in the Year of the Dog; her daughter, Lourdes, in the Year of the Rat (News & Notes). David E. Kelley was coscreenwriter for 1987's From the Hip (Movies).