Oscar Mired

After politely permitting me to rant last Sunday about The Times’ unfortunate neglect of Deborah Kerr in the issues leading up to the Academy Awards, you added after my letter, “An article on Deborah Kerr and her career appeared in Calendar on March 21,” leaving the impression with your “last word” that I didn’t know what I was talking about.

This statement is unfair and totally undercuts the significance of my comments, but even worse, it is untrue.

In fact, there were no articles about Deborah Kerr through March 21, the date of the awards, and only a brief one on March 22 to which I referred in my original letter, complaining that it was completely segregated from the rest of the Oscar coverage, placed under a dance review amid lots of advertising.

You chose to cut that portion of my letter for space and in the process provided the editors who had incredibly overlooked Miss Kerr all those weeks leading up to the Oscars the opportunity to make it appear that I had not read The Times carefully.

Why can’t The Times just accept the fact that it dropped the ball, without dropping the ball once again?

MICHAEL RUSSNOW

West Hollywood

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Regarding “Where Were They on Oscar Night? We’re Just Asking” (Film Clips, March 27):

Where were the stars? For shame. No one may want to go to the company picnic, but one always does. It’s good for business. It shows your support. It’s part of the job.

GORDY GUNDY

Los Angeles