_______________ MONICA VS. MAUREEN BY CAROL LLOYD (06/18/98)
	Thank you Carol Lloyd and Salon for your excellent piece on the Times' Maureen Dowd. I've been waiting for a publication to take note of Dowd's seemingly never-ending series of mean and worthless Lewinsky-related columns. Her June 17 column, "Monica and Me," may have been her most dishonest: To claim that she feels sorry for Lewinsky, after all her ugly and mocking attacks, is simply amazing. What's so bizarre about Dowd's writing is that she seems to be taking the alleged relationship between President Clinton and Lewinsky so very personally. Reading her column is like reading a junior high school newsletter whose purpose is revenge. -- Dave Kaplan Many thanks to Carol Lloyd for illuminating the smug hypocrisy behind Maureen Dowd's cruel and stupid slam at Monica Lewinsky. -- James Rogers
_______________ THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OF GWYNETH PALTROW BY CAMILLE PAGLIA (06/09/98)
	Thank you for the critique of Gwyneth Paltrow. She makes me sick! She has a pretty face but she is so scrawny, and untalented to boot. She totally flaunted her engagement to Brad Pitt (who is not really that big of a catch: He has a speech impediment and cannot act) to further her career. She's horrible and not a good role model for young women. She needs to eat a couple of pizzas. "Emma" was horrible. Rent "Clueless" instead, a much better version of Jane Austen's novel. Or, see Christina Ricci -- a great young actress, who looks like she eats three meals a day-- in "The Ice Storm." I have a friend who was beautiful and thin, until she went to a modeling agency that told her she was too fat. She proceeded to use drugs until she lost weight. Her bones are jutting out of her skin, and she looks like a junkie now. But now the agents are interested in her. Her nickname is "stick figure." It's obscene and unhealthy how the fashion and film industry portray women. I have no objection to slimness, we all strive for that, but you have to be healthy, eat, exercise. Not just take pills and shakes or starve yourself. -- Robin Lawless
_______________ SOURCE FOR KATHLEEN WILLEY STORY SUES NEWSWEEK'S MICHAEL ISIKOFF BY JOE CONASON (06/12/98)
	I'm thrilled that Isikoff is finally getting a sensation of recoil from all of the reckless point-shoot innuendo he's fired. Isikoff seems to be more interested in "reporting" unsubstantiated and lurid details of perversity than working at developing any substantive news items. Personally I find him to be an arrogant philistine and a shill for a pampered class of white, male-like whiners. -- Ron Anguiano Lakewood, Colo.
_______________ ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MARX BY DAVID WEIR (06/09/98)
	I find tedious David Weir's thesis that Jann Wenner was somehow a sellout for putting music, rather than leftish politics, at the core of Rolling Stone. The nerve! Selling something many people want rather than failing at selling something most people found inane or repulsive. Given the sort of journalism Weir apparently admires, however, his conclusion should be expected. A distrust of readers' taste is congruent with politics centered on bossing people around and hurting those who object. -- Patrick McIlheran SALON | June 22, 1998

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