Death and Terrorism Are Never Funny

Regarding Robin Abcarian’s column on Carlos the Jackal (“Carlos Takes Tinseltown? He Could’ve Been a Terror,” Aug. 24): Your article--intended to be witty, I am sure--was in terribly bad taste. Shocking. There can never be anything funny about people bleeding in airports after being machine-gunned or planes being blown up.

There must be a thousand ways to poke fun at Hollywood. Terrorism is definitely not one of them. On that day, your pen should have dried up.

MAURICE KORNBERG

Los Angeles