<i> VIVA </i> VALDEZ
To accuse playwright Luis Valdez of “selling out” in “I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges” is ludicrous (Calendar Letters, Feb. 9), and I for one am appalled at hearing upward-mobile, pseudo-intellectual (am I being redundant) Latinas parrot this line.
Most critics and letter-writers are missing the point of Valdez’s last play. His main thrust was to castigate the media for the “crumbs” they throw at ethnic-minorities in demeaning roles--anything else was incidental.
Valdez’s ability to castigate the media, second-class citizenship and our immoral foreign policy, and still entertain and make us laugh, is brilliant.
ABEL PENA
Los Angeles
Dan Sullivan analyzes Valdez’s new play on Page 44.
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