What? Me Distrust?
It’s amusing to read DreamWorks’ head of marketing, Terry Press, bemoaning the media reporting on the cost of films that may or may not be over budget (“Wilder by the Minute,” by Patrick Goldstein, April 19). “No one in the media believes anything the studios say anymore,” she says. “It’s become an endless merry-go-round of distrust.”
The same Terry Press was quoted in a Times article on March 20 on the state of American film criticism as saying, “I can get all kinds of bad reviews and still cut myself a 30-second TV spot that makes it look like I got good reviews. . . . If they didn’t say it exactly the way you want, you just take the part of what they said that you do want.” The quote appeared directly under her picture, in which the executive looked bold and proud of the honorable work she does.
But if she ever decides to leave the movie business, surely the world of politics would be perfect. She could be, for some future morally questionable politician, the ultimate press secretary.
DENNIS COZZALIO
Glendale
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