Someone Wrote It

While the article on “The Women” (“The Claws Are Out,” by John Clark, June 9) gives full credit to playwright Clare Boothe Luce, it compares the play with “George Cukor’s film adaptation.” Cukor did indeed direct the film, but it was adapted for the screen--and rather substantially tweaked, as there were censors to consider in 1939--by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin. In fact, Cukor insisted Loos be on the set throughout the filming.

I had to laugh the next day when a Calendar piece on the Writers Guild Foundation’s Words to Picture Conference implied that writers were complaining unjustly about people being “indifferent to their talent.” It’s doubly difficult when it is writers who dismiss--or just plain forget--other writers.

CARI BEAUCHAMP

Los Angeles