Risky business
INTERESTING that a few readers have written to take umbrage (read: envy) that David Ellison should be cast in a film in which he is investing [Letters, Aug. 27].
The usual wisdom, of course, is to never use one’s own money in such endeavors. However, that would have to exclude Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Mel Gibson, John Cassavetes and John Sayles.
And the same brush that tars Howard Hughes would also apply to Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Saul Zaentz, Ed Pressman, George Harrison, Phil Anschutz and Stephen Bing -- and many, many others who have shared one goal: to risk their own money in their passion to make good movies.
TONY BILL
Venice
Bill is the director of “Flyboys,” the film in which David Ellison appears and helped finance.
Only good movies
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