SCANDALOUS
Your article ''Scandal Inc.'' ( 212, March 4) is unconscionable in
its references to Nancy Kerrigan. To discount the severity of the
assault on this athlete simply because she may receive more
commercial endorsements is insulting. If Kerrigan earns more in
commercial endorsements, it will be because of her determination to
overcome her injury and to compete in the Olympics, not because she
was ''kneecapped.'' The article also implies that her Campbell's Soup
endorsements were part of ''miscellaneous cash-ins'' resulting from
the attack. As you know, the Campbell's and Reebok ads were
contracted for long before the attack. Do you honestly think that
Kerrigan was thinking, ''Oh, goody, more money'' after she was brutally
attacked? EW owes her an apology.
Eloise Lennberg-Plett
Marlton, N.J. |
Leslie Abramson, Paul Erickson, Alan Dershowitz, the Buttafuocos
their families must be so proud! Next time we find ourselves at a
newsstand, a bookstore, or leafing through a TV schedule, we should
gently remind ourselves that the only person to say ''no'' to the
tabloid-movie-of-the-week- ratings-
grabbing-press-conference-tell-all-interviews was Heidi Fleiss. If
she can abstain, so can we!
N.A. Nunn
Fredericksburg, Va.
Bravo to the designer of the March 4 cover of EW! The cover will
be hanging on my wall. Please let me know when the T-shirt is
available. Thank you for your wonderful article, too.
Marsha Brandsdorfer
New Orleans
'LIST' TOPPER
Thanks for the article on Ralph Fiennes. Once again, the Brits
have provided film audiences with an actor who possesses great skill
as well as great magnetism. It's too bad that Hollywood couldn't have
waited a while longer to sink its teeth into Interview With the
Vampire. Here is Lestat incarnate — and an actor who can make people
feel an emotion other than hate toward a killer, a quality that Tom
Cruise sadly lacks. We can only hope that Wuthering Heights finds a
distributor. I suppose if Far and Away did, anything is possible.
Stephanie Troisi
Winchester, Mass.
ROLE MODEL
How could you allow a full page for an attack not so much on
Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground, but on him personally? Using the
terms ''witless'' and ''thick, ponytailed head'' is outrageous and
biased. The film turned my attention to saving the environment more
than any Greenpeace organization. Seagal is the most positive role
model there is.
Amin Matalqa
Gahanna, Ohio
SHILTS' LEGACY
Thank you for remembering Randy Shilts. He made his mark — an
indelible one — as a reporter and person who cared that people were
dying all around us. For that he will always be remembered.
Laura Snider
La Crescenta, Calif.
Correction: An item in the Movies section misidentified the independent film Student Body as Student Bodies. The latter is an unrelated horror parody.
