RZ AND QT

At first, I thought the conversation between Robert Zemeckis and Quentin Tarantino (“Celluloid Heroes,” March 26) was a very funny parody, although a more appropriate title might have been “Flick Chat With Beavis and Butt-head.”

Then I realized that this pair of airheads actually think and talk like that. Worse, they not only see movies, they make them. I stopped laughing.

MARVIN A. GLUCK

Topanga

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Re the terrific conversation between Zemeckis and Tarantino: QT says “imagine if when you were 4 years old, you watched a particular movie 50 times . . . over and over again.”

Well, for New York kids, back in pre-cable days, that almost happened with “The Million Dollar Movie.” Channel 9 would pick one movie per week and run it twice a night and then all day Saturday and Sunday. By the time the week was over, the same film had been shown close to 20 times.

Of course, to fit the films into a 90-minute time slot, they would sometimes be cut to shreds. But regardless, it was on the “Million Dollar Movie” that I fell in love with “King Kong,” “Godzilla,” “Mighty Joe Young,” “Rio Bravo” and so many others.

DAVID LEAF

Santa Monica