Power Moves
You did it again! Another great issue ( 246, Oct. 28), especially
the Hollywood rankings. One minor quibble: I'd rank Quentin Tarantino
ahead of several other, higher-ranked Hollywood types. I'll bet that,
at least for now, he'll have less trouble getting a dream project
financed than, say, Tim Burton or Demi Moore.
James C. Kaufman
Los Angeles
jameskauScf.usc.edu
Glancing at your Power 101 cover, I was under the false impression
that women would comprise 50 percent of the people on the list. Boy,
was I disappointed to find out that the percentage is a slim 14
percent. Gee, EW, thanks a lot for brightening a woman's day.
Mary Shelton
Riverside, Calif.
Rick Berman (No. 63 on your list) did not make Star Trek a
billion-dollar-plus baby. He inherited a billion-dollar baby from
Gene Roddenberry. Despite a tendency to rewrite history on the part
of certain executives and publicists at Paramount, it was Gene, not
Rick, who was at the heart of Star Trek's success.
Richard Arnold
Former assistant to Gene Roddenberry
West Hollywood, Calif.
Thanks for the wonderful sketches, drawings, and other artist
representations of the ''most influential people'' in showbiz. They
really brightened up an already great issue.
Kate Heinemann
Bloomington, Ill.
As No. 573 (up from No. 618), I must protest your capricious and
arbitrary choice of No. 101.5 as a cutoff point.
Michael Schlesinger
Director, Acquisitions and Repertory Sales
Columbia Pictures
Culver City, Calif.
Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, and Michael Douglas over Harrison Ford? You must be joking. Costner is in
the worst slump of his career; Gibson's last three movies combined
made less than The Fugitive; and show me a studio that will take
Redford, Douglas, or Eastwood over Ford.
Reza Askarieh
Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
A Dream Come True
A positive article on Madonna? Thanks for the wonderful review of Bedtime Stories and for eating your words. Madonna is anything but
washed up.
Kurt Nelson
Brownsville, Minn.
Son of Flubber
Your flub of the week flubbed. You criticize Quiz Show for showing
a marquee of La Dolce Vita, stating that it did not open until 1960.
True, it doesn't belong in a movie set in 1958, but it doesn't belong
in one set in 1960 either. At least not an American movie. La Dolce
Vita was not released in New York until 1961.
Barry Monush
Metuchen, N.J.
Correction: In the article ''Power Designers,'' a photograph of Candice Bergen was incorrectly placed with others of celebrities wearing clothes by Donna Karan. Bergen's outfit was designed by Richard Tyler.
