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...Brien penned a humorous essay that ran in The New York Times on Sept. 13, the day his show premiered. The piece described a show that bombed badly and blasted the host (himself) as incompetent and bumbling...
...reader may care to know the following: In preparation for this essay, I read through similar pieces published in this space, written by graduating seniors over the past few years. The purpose of this mission was to see what material older, respected colleagues of mine had selected for their so-called "parting shots." I didn't want to be the one to write that unreadable column, the one that you folks would be talking and giggling about at the clambake and master's reception...
...having a troublesome time determining what to write about for this essay. I had signed up weeks before to write, and now, sitting alone in my room, armed with a stack of previously published commencement-week op-eds, I couldn't think of anything original, innovative and useful I wanted...
Sixteen years ago, Mark's pictures of teenage runaways in Seattle, which she had shot for a 1983 photo essay for LIFE magazine, became the basis for Streetwise, the Oscar-nominated documentary that she produced and that her husband Martin Bell directed. Mark has kept in touch with Erin ("Tiny") Blackwell, who was featured in that film, taking pictures at various moments of Tiny's precarious life. Ten of them make a rake's progress along one wall in Philadelphia. Tiny appears first as a pretty, enclosed 12-year-old, then as a pregnant teenager, then as a haggard-looking...
Lance Morrow's wit notwithstanding, his description of Elizabeth Taylor as a "gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability" [ESSAY, May 8] ignored the great amount of good this flamboyant lady has accomplished during her turbulent life. Without Taylor's name, her style, her money and her dedication, the battle against AIDS--especially during the Reagan years--would have progressed at a much slower pace. LEWRIGHT B. SIKES Antioch, Tenn...