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REVIEW REVIEW
Regarding your review [Movies, Aug. 10:
]: You're the one who is patronizing your readers when you assume we are not able to rise above the distracting moments in the movie. The film is incredible!
Emperor penguins have been going through this life ordeal since before recorded history. We are so fortunate to have the chance to see such a film. We can only guess at the sheer misery and desperation the makers endured. We owe them a huge debt. You gave them a slap in the face. If you can't be more respectful of the final proof of their devotion you should find another job.
Patsie Ross
Santa Fe
JESUS WALKS
I am writing to say thank you to Robert Ransom Odom for such a beautifully written and insightful piece [
: Aug. 24]. No one deserves to be hated and scorned for their sexual orientation. It saddens me that Jesus' message of love for all beings has been confused by so many misguided people into hatred for homosexuals. I wish to convey to Mr. Odom that for every blinded and cruel stranger who writes him hate mail, there are dozens of people who support and honor his bravery and strength. Thank you to the Reporter for providing Mr. Odom a space to write his wisdom.
Ellie Kerr
Albuquerque
USE THE FORCE
I'm not sure what set of arbitrary guidelines were used to determine which movies you would plug in your autumn movie guide [Cover story, Aug. 31:
], but I feel there is at least one glaring omission. Joss Whedon, the mirthful master of the maidenly macabre who brought us the television series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and
Angel
is back to work his mojo in the movie
Serenity
, out in theaters Sept. 30. Unlike the two aforementioned series, this is his vision of a future where the Rebels LOST against the Empire. C'mon, if you're the kind of person who was disappointed by George Lucas' crap, maudlin writing or bored by the meandering silly super-hero movies of the summer, this is big news. Mr. Whedon's writing is sharp, his characters sympathetic, and his stories engrossing. This will be the best sci-fi of the year.
Nicholas Maryol
Santa Fe
SCATA-LOGIC
The two critical letters published last Wednesday about Total Pig writer Gwyneth Doland led me to check out her column.
I'll keep it simple. It's kind of remarkable that she uses the word "shit" in a column about food.
Need I say more?
Lawrence Gold
Santa Fe
SAVE SANTA FE
After reading your take on the giant City Council meeting concerning the new Wal-Mart [Outtakes, Aug. 17:
], I am still just as confused as I always am with the conduct of the City Council of Santa Fe. When I have watched the City Council meetings on TV, I have seen the City Council vote for and approve practically every destructive thing proposed by developers that has come before them.
I have seen City Council members and the mayor callously and cynically disregard the people's feelings, the people's genuine needs concerning open space, affordable housing, uglification, so much change that the people have nowhere to go except a depressing, ugly, horribly lit big box full of cheap, cheaply made goods that fall apart.
I have seen that no matter how many people here beg for the true life of Santa Fe, the City Council and mayor always already know how they will vote and the people's pleas to save Santa Fe from indiscriminate infill and badly planned development fall on extremely deaf ears.
Growth can be planned with the welfare of the city and people first and foremost. But this word "infill" perfectly represents the cynical coldness and ignorance with which the planning of growth in Santa Fe has gone forward. This "infill" was supposed to stop "sprawl," which it has not done at all. It has just filled in all open space in Santa Fe with office buildings, condos and lots and lots of asphalt, islands full of gigantic weeds, huge parking lots that required little or no landscaping.
A city is a whole, complicated organism and it needs to be fed carefully and healthfully by those who can do it. Instead it has been neglected and ignored and taken over by characters who just do not take care or who are incapable of understanding the real needs of a growing city. How dare they misuse this awesome responsibility.
Connie Joubert
Santa Fe
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