Drag-Net
I enjoyed Gene Hackman's and Dustin Hoffman's reviews on favorite movies (''Hackman vs. Hoffman''), but I have to differ with a statement Hackman made. When discussing Tootsie, he said, ''There's no way in the world I would have touched that character.'' Well, one of my favorite movies with Hackman in it is The Birdcage. And he looks quite lovely, in a Carol Channing sort of way, wearing a dress. MARIA WITTE cestdragonfly@hotmail.com Jenison, Mich.
Trading Barbs
Your review of Barbra Streisand's The Movie Album was unfortunate (Music). To compare her to someone in a different genre of music is a waste. The review read like a vendetta with too many cheap shots at the artist included along with the droning dislike for the album itself. EW gives this release a D. I would argue that any fair critic would offer a better grade just for the sound of Ms. Streisand simply breathing. WILL KOLB Bratprince@aol.com Dallas
I've been a Streisand aficionado for 25-plus years and never thought I would agree with a negative review of one of her albums. Her latest album, which should've been titled Look How Much I (Still) Love My Husband: A Love Like Ours Vol. 2, is a sad, sad thing, and makes me wish it were released on vinyl so I could play it at 45 rpm and try to get some of the zam-bam-tingle that The Broadway Album gave me back in '85. BOB WERNER Hollywood
He's With 'Stupid'
Stupid questions with Melissa Gilbert was about the funniest damn thing I have ever read in EW! The questions were brilliant! I have always wanted to know how the ladies of lifetime party. Big props to Gillian Flynn -- I may be a convert to stupid questions after all!! JOHN BURKHARDT Houstonsdads@aol.com Orlando
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The designers took actual molds of the Wellington cliffs and
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The designers took actual molds of the Wellington cliffs and brought them back to their workshop, where they sprayed them with layers of polyurethane. The pieces were then assembled like a puzzle.
A STUNNING SEAT OF POWER
The Hennahs' biggest challenge in constructing the Minas Tirith throne room was right at their feet. Literally. It took 12 painters a month to make the 11,250-square-foot floor look like intricately patterned marble. The classical influences didn't stop there. ''One of the things we decided early on was that Minas Tirith would have a European feel,'' Dan says of the Corinthian columns and Moorish arches. Artists crafted the eight-foot polystyrene sculptures of the fallen kings of Minas Tirith to evoke ancient Greece and lend ''a grandeur'' to the room, he adds. ''It's about giving the city a formality and a history that people can relate to.''
