The Sequel
Last Sunday’s letters commenting on the article “Is Hollywood Ruining America?” (June 21) are beautiful Pavlovian scripting from and to L.A./Hollywood.
Posing the question, answering same and then running the expected selection of letters--sort of interviewing the fox about the chicken coop--has become The Times’ routine.
It is the same thing that goes down with the Washington Post commenting on the “national scene” from within the Beltway. That newspaper’s objectivity and analysis are about as perceptive and valid about everyday American feelings and mind-set as The Times’ conducting a survey about the movie industry with an insider’s viewpoint. But of course the average person isn’t worth interviewing.
Urban chic is so sophisticated!
In other pages of the paper one constantly reads the latest slant on the agonies of the various sectors of interest, with tortured rationales wondering how we got to the state of rude savagery that permeates typical life and times. This growing lifestyle is simply moviegoers beginning to implement what they are shown in theaters and on TV.
RICHARD JENNINGS
Bakersfield
Only good movies
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