DINNER WITH JUSTINE?

Since you granted a reader’s wish to assign Justine Bateman a record review (Record Rack, “Parsons Gets Too Vocal,” April 27), do you think you could induce her to have dinner with me? I have a steady job, a clean, well-lit place to live, and no outstanding warrants.

Yours hopefully (note

correct use of adverb)

DON DEVICH

Santa Barbara

You’re on your own, pal. PopMeter--where Bateman first broke into Calendar’s pages as a panelist--makes pop history again this week, as an actual “average American teen-ager” joins the critics on the panel. See Page 57.