Letters

Restricting immigration is good public policy, not wife beating, or racism, or whatever it is that Marc Haefele alleges.

—Richard Koris Los Angeles

A FEMALE VOICE

Re: “Sweet ’n’ Nasty” [August 2–8]. What a shock to find Tony Mostrom’s misogynistic drivel in the same issue of the Weekly that decries racism (Marc B. Haefele) and homophobia (Christopher Lisotta). A primary subject of his article, Janet Klein, is a woman he describes as both an “enthusiastic collector of vintage obscurities” and a musical “archaeologist,” yet aside from the “fresh-faced, pixieish” coffee-shop cutie he catches discussing Brunswick’s 6,000 recording series, he swears he’ll never hear such musical obsessions “uttered by a female voice.”

Obviously, Mostrom is both journalistically confused and lodged in the past. Hey, Tony, last I heard, women could play sports and be into math and science, too.

—Heather Mitchell Los Angeles

ABOUT FACE!

How Ella Taylor [in “Lost and Found,” August 2–8] can find anything to praise in Steven Soderbergh’s patronizing Full Frontal is astonishing. One can only cringe at the smug arrogance of Soderbergh, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt et al. pretending to make a “bare-bones indie.” What a lark! It’s right up there with Marie Antoinette and her cronies cavorting as French peasants at Versailles. And they didn’t charge the public $9 to watch them.

Taylor plays right into the filmmaker’s conceit. It’s a pity she was unwilling to see Full Frontal for what it really is — a pointless exercise in futility by a bunch of bored egomaniacs wanking directly into the camera.

—Jane Garcia Los Angeles

CORRECTIONS

Last week’s feature “A Tough Guy’s Tears” refers to Frank Sinatra’s “blistering letter to the editor dressing down the Pope for criticizing Sinead O’Connor”; it was, of course, O’Connor who had criticized the Pope. Also, the photo captions in last week’s Where To Eat Now got switched. The first image depicted Andre Guerrero of Max Restaurant and the second, a course at the restaurant Pho Bac Huynh.