Hunter Tylo

Re “Actress Fired Over Pregnancy Wins $5 Million,” Dec. 23: I am a liberal and a feminist who has never met Aaron Spelling or Hunter Tylo. But I am also an actor who knows that creative control in films and TV belongs to writers, producers and directors. If they define a role in which certain physical characteristics are required, they have the right to cast an actor who meets those requirements.

Tylo argued that Spelling could have accommodated her by hiding her pregnancy. Why should he? She didn’t have to get pregnant. Producers and directors have the right to decide how to convey the screen image that fits the character they have defined. Blocking changes and adjusting shooting angles to disguise a pregnancy compromise their creative control.

One of Tylo’s attorneys asked the jurors to use their “hearts” in coming to a decision. One thing they obviously didn’t use was their brains. I trust the appeals courts judges will use theirs.

FORREST G. WOOD

Bakersfield

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It seems that this case was never about guilty or not guilty but rather how much. Spelling Productions did a very bad thing in firing this woman and made it even worse by airing it publicly in court.

Perhaps this company wasn’t aware that women can even vote now and that some have even risen to positions of great success and power within their own industry.

CHARLES H. WOHLKEN

Orange