Author Archives: Willie Holmes

Dear Editors: I remember when I saw Tom Chiola’s campaign posters all over the city in February [“In and Out,” August 19]. I was curious about the pink triangles in the O’s of each word in the poster. Another thing I was curious about was why the points of the triangles pointed down. From all […]

Dear editors, Apparently, not only does Jonathan Rosenbaum have to make corrections in his reviews, but he has to make them in his corrections as well [“Compression Editing,” Letters, July 22]. Mr. Rosenbaum must have a unique editing machine that can put actors and scenes from one movie into another. Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, […]

To the editors: David Futrelle’s article on the ongoing pornography debate [December 10] was, probably, the most extensive on the subject to date. An episode of the CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours came close, but you could still tell that it was slanted more towards the antiporn viewpoint. Even Playboy hasn’t really tackled the issue. Since […]

To the editors: All this time, I thought it was my fault. All this time, I thought only men were childish and immature in budding relationships. After reading Marya Engelman’s “Blind Dates” article (Our Town, February 26), I now see that women are just as silly when it comes to matters of romance as well. […]

To the editors: In this day and age, I find it just a little hard to believe that those people on the Chicago Tribune’s editorial and writing staff wouldn’t have heard those comments from the Rodney King incident’s transcripts [“Hot Type,” July 26]. If not from the newspaper, then from television reports. Or are we […]

To the editors: Jonathan Rosenbaum asks, when commenting on “The Worst Film Festival” at Harper College: “Why are genre films of the 50s automatically considered to be worse than those of the 70s or 80s?” (Reader; Feb. 3, ’89) Well, Mr. Rosenbaum, let us look at some of the talent that came from that era: […]

To the editors. Three days after your article about Jim Zangrilli (Reader; July 8), the person in question had a letter that appeared in the July 11 edition of the Chicago Sun-Times. Zangrilli was protesting the confiscation of a handgun without benefit of a warrant for the search. This protestation is about the only thing […]