Feedback: Hollywood history and the Academy Museum’s stumble

Movie museum’s massive image

The feedback by Mary McNamara on the Academy Museum [“Jewish Erasure Outcry Was Needed,” March 2”] have been on track in regard to leaving out the names of the Jews who began the movement image enterprise in a everlasting assortment on the Academy Museum of Movement Footage.

That’s akin to leaving out the names of outstanding African Individuals resembling Alex Haley, Barbara Jordan, Sojourner Reality or Maya Angelou in a museum of well-known Black Individuals.

Barry Solomon
Redondo Seaside

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Earlier than and after I visited the Academy Museum of Movement Footage, my fellow Jews exhorted me to be outraged — “there are not any Jews.” In studying Mary McNamara’s article, she supplies a case for historic context of the origins of the trade. However to the outrage, my response was, I noticed the Steven Spielberg video space, the David Geffen theater, the Barbra Streisand bridge. The Jews have been in all places! They paid for many of it. Heck, even the entrance of the constructing had the title of a outstanding Jew, George Soros, carved within the entrance. In order for the Jews being “absent” from the museum, so far as I’m involved, they’re there.

Marcia Greenberg
Los Angeles

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Give attention to the true drawback

Relating to “Falling for the Rip-off” [by Meredith Blake, March 22]: We nonetheless reside in a neoliberal age the place our society’s massive issues are filtered and addressed by people quite than seen as systemic. Working example: the damaging results of contemporary unregulated capitalism. These new TV exhibits in regards to the grifters who stole tens of millions and ruined lives could also be instructional and entertaining, however they might additionally mislead by portraying the issue because the fault of only some “unhealthy apples.”

How about creating exhibits that immediately go after the ecosystem that permits the normal company — the businesses that are each day elements of our lives — to drive earnings inequality, environmental degradation, poor well being outcomes, the erosion of democracy? And the special-interest-controlled governments that permit such injustices to occur? I’d watch that Netflix present.

Zareh Delanchian
Tujunga

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Drama consists of battle, good in opposition to unhealthy, protagonists and antagonists. With such cinematic creations as “Goodfellas” and “The Godfather,” Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have laid declare to being among the many best auteurs in movie historical past. However their material usually focuses on characters that aren’t in alignment with morality or the legislation as most of us perceive it.

To understand the prison thoughts, the con man or the widespread shyster by a screenplay, with actors and with circumstantial re-creations, has been a part of our human inventive heritage since we have been carving pictures on the partitions of caves. Allow us to proceed to shine an inventive gentle on the shadow aspect of the human psyche.

Ben Miles
Huntington Seaside

Not such a sensible transfer

Actually? This was definitely worth the ink spent on Mikael Wooden’s column [“Aaron Lewis Lets It All Out,” March 23]? A full web page dedicated to a man who says “I’m truly actually good …” and goes on to reward Tucker Carlson?

Fox Information received a court docket case by arguing that no affordable viewer takes Carlson severely. Polls have proven that individuals who watch solely Fox Information are much less educated than individuals who watch no information in any respect. Evidently Aaron Lewis makes ignorant and disrespectful feedback each time he opens his mouth and Mikael Wooden and the L.A. Occasions suppose it’s value publishing? Pandering to the fringes?

Gaylon Monteverde
Camarillo

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What a waste of area printing an interview with a singer who will get his information from Dan Ball and different pretend information sources. Your readers have no real interest in seeing lies and false statements revealed within the L.A. Occasions. By doing so, you contribute to the unfold of misinformation. Identical to publishing photographs of the previous man, we don’t must see this.

Susan Rosenberg
La Quinta

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I don’t get it. I understand everybody has a proper to a voice, however why within the face of shrinking information area would you waste a complete worthwhile web page of print on the delinquent spewing of a man who flaunts his ignorance of science, fuels his misinformation from Fox Information, admittedly drives away would-be followers, and may’t carry out until he smokes a joint on his technique to the stage? If you happen to’re operating low on folks to profile, I’ve a brand new novel popping out in November, and I’m out there.

Barbara Pronin
Placentia

Do your personal analysis

Why achieve this many readers write to complain that Justin Chang is just too clever in his movie evaluations? Sure, it’s true that in contrast to studying a e-book, watching a film requires much less effort. For essentially the most minimal understanding, you simply have to take a seat there with out falling asleep. This can be why so many viewers suppose their very own opinion is as worthy as an knowledgeable opinion. The newest grievance was that Chang, in his evaluate of the film “After Yang” [“Robot Story on a Human Level,” March 4], made reference to Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu.

The newest letter author pleaded: “How about writing evaluations for individuals who may wish to see films, quite than for different critics?”

I might recommend a fast Google or Wikipedia seek for Yasujiro Ozu, should you don’t know who he’s. Imagine it or not, Ozu and Akira Kurosawa are the contrasting masters of Japanese cinema, each among the many most influential worldwide administrators of all time.

For over 70 years individuals who wish to actually see films have sought out the movies by each, and have been immeasurably enriched. Each movie viewer ought to know them.

Would this letter author have complained a few e-book reviewer who referenced Shakespeare or Tolstoy or Camus or Woolf or Agatha Christie? The promulgation of a extra expansive movie tradition amongst moviegoers is just not a straightforward job.

Charles Derry
Palm Springs

A defining position

Is it attainable that Calendar would roll out a prolonged tackle the nice Mark Rylance [“Tailoring His Role,” March 18] with out mentioning, even alluding to his signature, Emmy-nominated (shoulda-won) transcendence as Thomas Cromwell within the restricted sequence “Wolf Corridor”?

Was “Wolf Corridor” tapped out in code? Hiding someplace in Emily Zemler’s 44 inches of copy to keep away from being outed as a significant work in Rylance’s profession? Nope, simply not there, a surprising omission.

Howard Rosenberg
Los Angeles
Observe: The letter author is a former tv critic for The Occasions.