Forum, Jan. 5, 1976

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Kudos for Genius Kubrick

To the Editors:

Sure Marisa Berenson has a pretty face, but why run her as an "overbred, vacuous, giggly and lazy" cover subject [Dec. 15] when the true fanfare belongs to Stanley Kubrick, the most innovative person to touch motion pictures since Thomas A. Edison?

Mary Ellen Mulcahy

Shrewsbury, Mass.

Stanley Kubrick is a cinematic Shakespeare. And I think he knows it.

Phyllis A. Ekins

Hudson, Pa.

Thank God Stanley Kubrick has come back to rescue all us tired victims drowning in the current movie trend. It will be a joy to see art once more. I promise to treat myself to Barry Lyndon five times. That's what it will take to wash away my sorrows for having wasted $3.50 on Jaws.

Malia P. Lunday

Huntington Beach, Calif.

Stanley Kubrick: proof that there are living geniuses.

Kelly J. Smith

Kempton, Ill.

I am in Stanley Kubrick's new film Barry Lyndon where I play Marisa Berenson's son, Lord Bullingdon. I was very upset when I saw my picture in TIME with Marisa with another boy's name there. I am so disappointed because it is such a beautiful picture.

Dominic Savage, age 12

Kent, England

Ford's Useful Function

Your Essay on how we pick our leaders [Dec. 15] reminds us of the useful function President Ford is serving. Just as Nixon caused us to look for honesty in government, Ford is prompting us to say, "Can't we do better than this?"

Jack Colby

Sonoma, Calif.

Thank you for reminding us that our presidential choice is not restricted to Dum-Dum and Tweedledum.

Percy Crosby

Chevy Chase, Md.

Yes, let's have a look at new faces. Let's not, however, consider the corporate executives whose golden rule has been the unlimited productivity, profits and economic growth that have led us to the brink of environmental collapse.

Virginia Mudd Madden

Alamo, Calif.

Your Essay suggests this ad: Help Wanted: President of U.S. Experience necessary, preferably as president of large educational institution or international corporation, bank president or "charismatic and influential American." Mayors and military personnel also considered. Women Need Not Apply.

Angela R. Aresco

New York City

Nuclear Comfort

I found M.I.T.'s once-in-a-million-years odds against a nuclear power plant holocaust [Dec. 8] comforting—until I realized that a million years also includes tomorrow!

Carl Wish

Caracas

Body Shops

I found your article on the body shops [Dec. 15] disheartening. It seems ludicrous for law enforcement officers to devote so much effort to cracking down on a harmless exercise that prostitutes and their clients have been pursuing for thousands of years. It would seem more sensible merely to tax these operations at a fairly high rate.

John S. Connolly III

Washington, D.C.

Prohibition didn't work for liquor in the '20s, and it won't work for sex in the '70s. Leave the consenting adults alone and worry about the nonconsenting ones (rape, robbery and murder).

Mary Tidwell

South Daytona, Fla.