To the editors, I am writing this in response to Peter Margasak’s inability to resist trashing Jim Ellison’s life in Hitsville [June 28]. In an otherwise complimentary article, he couldn’t resist throwing in a couple of lines of his usual negativism. Is he following in the great Wyman tradition of saying anything–no matter how asinine–just […]
Author Archives: Paul Natkin
Posted inArts & Culture
Eliminate All Critics!
To the editors: In Mr. Wyman’s March 5 column, he mentioned that the R.E.M. album has sold nearly ten million copies worldwide. In the next line he says that “it is like a tree falling in the midst of a crowd and everyone paying it no mind because it doesn’t have a PR person.” Could […]
Posted inNews & Politics
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
To the editors: While reading the review of the Rolling Stones IMAX movie last week [July 3], I was struck by the fact that your writer really liked the movie. I enjoyed the review up until the last line, which was “the problem is that it’s only entertainment, and nothing more.” Why is that a […]