An American Conceit

Writer Budd Schulberg, in his May 13 letter, is right in allowing that Hollywood’s business climate is not much different from the rest of the country but wrong in limiting his observation to the United States. He seems part of that peculiarly American conceit that Americans are a different form of human species.

Schulberg’s notorious character Sammy Glick is not unknown in London, Paris and Rome. And there are many places in the world where his form of venality would rate as rank amateurism.

TONY THOMAS

Burbank