Tag: Vol. 29 No. 11

Perhaps I’ve been living in Los Angeles too long, but the notion that movie adaptations of books should retain complete fidelity to the written word is an anachronism [November 19]. It doesn’t matter what the germ of the idea is. Once it is in the director’s hands, the subject becomes the director’s. So it seems […]

Dear editor, There is no story on East Timor that can be complete without some context about how the “Greek Tragedy” came to be. The role of the United States has been left out of Pappu’s column [November 26] and it provides the best place from which to see how genocide has been perpetrated against […]

Dear Mr. Migaldi, Thank you very much for taking the time to write and publish your essay “Natural Born Killers” [November 26]. Your gentle yet firm handling of the confusion that men (and women too) experience when defining their identities struck a vibrant chord with me. As a man, I too have had to wrestle […]

I disagree somewhat with your review of Sleepy Hollow [November 19]. While Burton takes excessive liberty with Irving’s story, what he does succeed in giving his audience is a genuine tale of horror. Arguments that Burton overdid the special effects may be worth considering, but any judgment of this sort is subjective. The central problem […]

To the editor: Help me out here–was John Conroy’s Reader article about Aaron Patterson (“Pure Torture,” 12/3/99) supposed to render John and Mary Q. Public sympathetic toward this thug-ass criminal? Why did you waste all of that newsprint on this one-man crime wave who has spent his entire privileged life making the lives of others […]