The X Files

The moment I began reading your article about Kurt Cobain’s life being pitched as a movie of the week (Pop Eye, May 22), I started crying.

In response to Jim Hiett, who proposed the idea to NBC: No, not every 15- to 30-year-old would serve as audience for this cheap scheme. What is it about America that just screams exploitation nowadays? It got sick with the Amy Fisher thing, grew worse with Nancy and Tonya, then the Menendez brothers, now Kurt Cobain. That is the last straw.

Does something about Kurt, of all people, just even whisper to you “hands off,” that maybe it’s time for the media to leave him alone, once and for all?

America, Hollywood is getting sicker and sicker in its desperation to turn a cheap buck. Maybe it’s time to relearn the word respect . Say it after me, boys, r-e-s-p-e-c-t spells respect . Get a dictionary. Maybe it’s just time for me to move the hell away from America. You make me want to vomit.

STEPHANIE RUBIN

Chatsworth

What wonderful thoughtful letters from members of Generation X (May 8). I was most impressed with their astute comments on Hollywood’s failed attempts to lure them to the movies with inept portrayals of their lifestyle. They have exposed the industry’s total focus on possible profitability rather than producing quality films.

Sure, we must have films for the little kiddies, hopefully interesting enough to keep their required chaperons from fracturing their jaws yawning; and the next age group needs lots of action and animals to keep their limited attention spans in gear.

But these children become adults, and like the Generation X adults, will want what all adults want: films not geared to the 13-year-old mentality that Hollywood has claimed for years is the norm for moviegoers.

Generation X might well lead the public clamor for better films. They are certainly capable of it! For starters, your May 8 page of letters should be required reading for studio heads and producers.

LOUISE HAUTER

La Canada