Nobodies? Hardly

After reading Liz Smith’s column (“So, Who Are These People?,” July 3), I think she should bone up not only on her reading but also her listening and TV viewing.

Has she never heard Ira Glass on public radio’s “This American Life” or the comedian Chris Rock with his funny voice, or what about “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart, or jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson? Tom Ford is equally well known for his work with Gucci and YSL.

Come on!

SHALINI DORE

Arcadia

How sad that we’ve reached a point where a nationally syndicated columnist is willing to proclaim her cultural illiteracy in print.

Perhaps if Smith removed her lips from the derrieres of film and theater “celebrities” for five minutes, she might recognize the other names on Time’s “America’s Best” list.

EMILIO CUETO

Pasadena