Heigl’s actions

RE “Pretty Outspoken” [Jan. 6]: Let me get this straight.

Isaiah Washington defends himself at the Golden Globes after being blindsided by a reporter, and he’s called all sorts of names except outspoken. In fact, he loses his job and is relegated to the abysmal “Bionic Woman.”

Katherine Heigl -- whose accomplishments include modeling, being a big-breasted blond, a couple of doe-eyed crying scenes on “Grey’s Anatomy” masquerading as real acting -- feels the need to defend a grown man (T.R. Knight), and tells Isaiah that “he needs to just not speak in public,” but she’s deemed “pretty outspoken.”

In a town where we heap praise upon the beautiful, and the PC-police have turned the truly outspoken into pariahs, Mr. Paul Brownfield’s fluff was part and parcel. He can continue to worship Ms. Heigl, but I’m not impressed.

Giacomo Knox

Glendale

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WE are grateful for Paul Brownfield’s offhanded observation that Katherine Heigl was smoking as she drank coffee outside of the Four Seasons at the start of his front-page Calendar profile. This is exactly the type of under-the-radar depiction that keeps up the image of cigarettes as being very “Hollywood,” particularly by a wholesome, rising TV and movie star. We appreciate his cooperation in maintaining smoking as glamorous.

His check is in the mail. Just one small request: Next time, can he please specify the brand?

Always indebted, the American Tobacco Companies.

Neal Osherow

Los Angeles