FAUX HARD CORE

Imagine my shock to read Sean Mitchell’s article on actress Julianne Moore (“Not Strictly Naked Ambition,” Sept. 28) and her performance in the upcoming R-rated “Boogie Nights,” where he states that Moore’s role as a porn star in the film “. . . involves hard-core scenes in which she has sex on camera with Mark Wahlberg.”

Really! So Moore and Wahlberg, possibly in an effort to add unheard-of realism to their parts, didn’t simply simulate the act but actually engaged in it, right there in front of the crew? I seriously doubt that’s what Mitchell meant.

GEOF O’KEEFE

San Miguel

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Poor Julianne Moore. She doesn’t know she’s too good an actress to waltz around bottomless in the movies.

Hey, if we’re going to let it all hang out, what about the men? Why is the woman always in bed stark naked while the man wears his boxers or a smart towel around his waist? Even “The Full Monty” wasn’t a full monty. If there were a group of women on the stage doing a strip, do you think for one moment, in that last climactic strip, they’d shoot it from the rear? So much for art, Ms. Moore.

LEONORA THUNA

Palm Springs