‘Folk’ and ‘Sex’

Daryl H. Miller wonders “how a show as wildly uneven as “Queer as Folk” can be so compulsively watchable” (“Return of Showtime’s Gay Soap,” Jan. 5). Some of the rest of us wonder: If it weren’t for the frontal nudity and the explicit sex scenes, would anyone put up with this show for five minutes?

Perhaps viewers enjoy “Queer as Folk” because, like other soap operas (which also offer cardboard characters, contrived situations and bad dialogue), it’s so silly.

KEVIN DAWSON

Sunland

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It seems to me that the rampant media glorification of the “Sex and the City” women is sadly misplaced (“A Love Note to New York,” by Howard Rosenberg, Jan. 4).

These shallow people are completely lacking in social consciousness, and their sole interest in life is self-gratification. They spend most of their time together discussing bodily functions and genitalia, while waiting for the arrival of Cary Grant to sweep them away.

I suspect that Mr. Grant and any men of quality and substance would have no interest in these foulmouthed, aging bimbos and their $300 shoes.

LEE M. JOCKERS

Los Angeles