‘Vendetta’ claim is a low blow

Before Marcie Roth, executive director of the National Spinal Cord Injury Assn., decided to attack Clint Eastwood, did she ever consider that “Million Dollar Baby” was not written by Eastwood (“ ‘Baby’ Plot Twist Angers Activists, Jan. 27)? She shrilly claims that Eastwood has a “vendetta” against disabled people, and labels the movie a “brilliantly executed attack” on them. Yes, a big-budget movie is just a cover for an attack on disabled people.

It is quite obvious who carries the vendetta here, and it’s not Eastwood.

Roth continues her rant by disclosing the movie’s plot, saying, “Our responsibility is to the half-million people with spinal cord injuries, not to moviegoers or moviemakers.”

Wrong again, Marcie. Your responsibility is to not be so self-absorbed that you lose focus and prove that the agenda in this case is your own.

Gregg Freeman

Simi Valley

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I don’t think Eastwood’s movie is an “attack on life after spinal cord injury,” as the National Spinal Cord Injury Assn. says.

I don’t think this movie is an attack on anything.

Why do they not see it as an attack on boxing? Or on women in boxing?

Because those views don’t fit their bias, perhaps?

A work of art is never an attack. If it were, it would not be a work of art but a sermon or a polemic.

Roger Angle

Culver City

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To say that Clint Eastwood has a vendetta against the disabled is dishonest.

He obviously has a vendetta against story notes because the only thing disabled that should have been put to sleep is the last one-third of “Million Dollar Baby.”

Up until the point where the Maggie character starts grasping for the Oscar, it was a great show.

Evan Jacobs

Fountain Valley

Evan Jacobs does movie and DVD reviews for www.movieweb.com.