We at Moving Pictures Magazine are delighted to facilitate debate on issues related to film's impact on and place in our social culture. We encourage you to share your views on subjects that appear on our pages. Please email your letters to editorial@mpgcorp.net.
Dear Editor:
Moving Pictures is a worthy addition to the periodical coverage of the film industry. Your colors and the quality of your paper are particularly outstanding. Your maintenance of a Letters section indicates your interest in your readers, too.
Sincerely,
Julian Myers
Marina del Rey, California
(See, I'm listening... Write in! -Ed)
My Dear Mr. Editor, Mr. Kotek:
Right there, in the middle of Blockbuster, I almost lost my composure. How awesome and commendable that you featured "Inside The U.S. vs. John Lennon." Long overdue and undeniably necessary, the country, the world, must realize that man cannot live by war alone. It is not healthy or productive, to say the very least.
In 1945, the United Nations was formed to bring nations together and address their differences, needs and wants in a peaceful, humane, productive manner. But how many lives have been lost, shattered, since 1945, due to war? Someone is not cooperating, and getting paid for it, too.
All hail the day a history book is written without the blood of war on its pages. That the timelines recorded and memorized by its readers be marked by peaceful acts of courage and humanitarian effort worthy of notation. Perhaps we should declare a war - on war. Imagine!
Lennon fan for peace, and teacher.
Lilly Hamak (via email)
(John and David's film opened on September 29. Hope you get to see it soon. -Ed)
Dear Elliot V. Kotek:
I have been receiving copies of the magazine, given out with the approval of the Writers' Guild of America to all qualifying members.
Though my lack of employment in Hollywood for the past 40-some years may well have its cause, partly, in that I suddenly became not good enough (despite steady employment prior, and with a few awards gathering dust), I rather fancy that the sudden stoppage is the result of my exceeding the age of 40. At this time, by 44 years.
There's no reason why you should be at all interested in the fact and manner of my survival, but in case you are: I have coped quite nicely, teaching in Australia and working in England. America, for the foreseeable future simply doesn't acknowledge that any write over 40 knows anything about anything, especially love. In this connection, let me quote the tolerant comment of George Kirgo (George was president of the WGA at one time) that "some of us have kept notes."
Finally, you may like to know that I wrote the first six Carry On movies, those British comedies which continued on for another 25 or so with unbroken box-office figures. In May 2006, I faced a hall full of fanatical Carry On devotees at Pinewood Studios [in London] in "An Evening with Norman Hudis" and signed autographs for hundreds whose responses to my work ranged from "They saved my life through laughter" to "The laughter expressed my milk when all else failed as I was trying to feed my baby."
Short of changing water into wine, I find these confessions extraordinary and, at the very least, they may amuse you. Good fortune with the magazine.
Norman Hudis
Woodland Hills, California
(Laughter is underestimated. May the words of others encourage you to carry on! -Ed)
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