LETTERS AW, YOU NOTICED!
Thank you for picking up Tony Millionaire’s Maakies. Great seeing cartoon characters with real vices again. L.A. Weekly has really been dropping the ball on a lot of fronts. Your coverage of news, art, music and restaurants saves the day. Ken Roskos Via e-mail
ENOUGH, ENOUGH, WE’RE BLUSHING
Re: “Drinks Issue 2009,” March 12: What a fun issue! Ladonafeliz Via LAcitybeat.com
WHAT, IS IT OUR BIRTHDAY?
Re: “Arthur, We Love You,” March 12: You wrote this so well. An absolutely perfect telling of Verocai’s epic influence and style. Reading this was almost as good as watching it last night. Semidivina Via LAcitybeat.com
OH NO, APPARENTLY IT’S NOT
Re: “Critic Tested, Kid Approved,” March 12: Oh, for f ’s sake, Tom. I don’t want to be a total dick here, because you usually know your stuff
this community works. George Torres is not a crook, not a dealer, not a street thug or anything like that. He’s a community leader. In our community, you’ve got some clowns that will tell anybody anything. That’s who the government has to testify. But George has THAT’S CLASSIC Re: Alan Rich’s “Not-So-Great Expectations,” friends in this community, friends like me March 12: I hated classical music reviews until who will tell the truth and blow the lid off this I read Alan Rich years ago. Before Rich, the thing. Why don’t you just stay covering Beverly writing seemed, I don’t know, stodgy, religious, Hills? Name Withheld By Request respectful, like the reviewer was watching God Via e-mail conduct angels in a Jesus composition: No criticism allowed. Reading this week’s review reminded me how much I’ve missed him. JESUS IS JUST NOT RIGHT WITH HIM Rich writes about the L.A. music scene like it Re: William Lobdell’s “Abandon All Hope, matters. Zubin Mehta? He “walks onstage as Christians,” March 5: William is absolutely if he’d just peed in his pants.” Joseph Marx? correct. It seems that the Christians will do Tom Child responds: If I had intended a “Dinosaur.” Alan Rich? Ass-kicker. Good to just about anything to drag us into their mass. They’re like cancerous cells trying to recruit the wisecrack, I might have found a way to work have him back. rest of the healthy body. I think that if they’d Doug Loh in the fact that in 12-step parlance, “dropping Via e-mail just keep their crazy beliefs to themselves, we’d the rock” is a euphemism for abandoning your all be better off. character defects in an effort to improve your FrankieAvocado WE DON’T KNOW JACK. OR GEORGE. life. Now THAT’S a wisecrack. But I like Johnson Via LAcitybeat.com and have no beef with professional wrestling BUT WE KNOW B.H. in general. In fact, I received a bit of academic Re: Jeffrey Anderson’s “The Trials of Mexican training in the subject in college; the phrase “neo- George,” February 19: You guys don’t know Send letters to editor@lacitybeat.com or do it up old populist vaudeville” is seared onto my brain as anything. You got this all wrong. The federal school: Letters to the Editor, L.A. CITY BEAT, 5209 a result. You have a point about the LAFCAs investigators you talked to don’t know how Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. about older movies … but seriously: “Dwayne Johnson (who recently abandoned his “The Rock” moniker in a bid for more critical consideration) … .” No need to let it get in the way of a good wisecrack or anything, but the tiniest bit of research might have helped here. “The Rock” is trademarked by WWE, and any time Dwayne used it, he had to pay them part of his salary; he ditched it as soon as he was contractually able. It wasn’t about critical consideration in the least ... do you really think Race to Witch Mountain is going to win a LAFCA award, no matter what the actor is named? LYT Via LAcitybeat.com
caring more about quality and less about names, though. Who can forget their groundbreaking decision to award the 2008 Best Director award to Danny “The British Bruiser” Boyle?
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