Failure in Hollywood

To Hollywood producers and studio development personnel:

The financial failure of “The Temp” is your collective fault (“ ‘The Temp’: Why Things Just Didn’t Work Out,” March 1). It is emblematic of the victimization of original material that pervades the industry. You deserve your failures: test screenings, plots-by-committee, glamour rewrites. Your lowest-common-denominator mentality has given us just that--the lowest.

What the moviegoing public deserves is a complete turnover of your jobs. Barring that, I only hope that you continue to put yourselves out of business.

JAMES TERRY

Silver Lake