ABANDON SHIP
What a watershed week. Ella Fitzgerald dies, Toni Braxton’s masturbating on the radio (“Taking a Deep Breath, Again,” by Cheo Hodari Coker, June 16), and we’re still debating whether Sharon Stone has the right to be something other than a sex object (Letters).
Ella, toss me down a life preserver, this boat is sinking.
SUSAN ISAACS
Santa Monica
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