By way of demonstrating that there are portents of the future at least as dire as anything that can happen in next week's election, we're running these letters—from Hillary Duff fans angry over Josh Bell's Oct. 7 review of her film Raise Your Voice—as they were sent to us, unedited. America, these are the doctors, legislators and fast-food franchise managers of your future!
uu suck.... i hate u as do many Hilary Duff Fans ....that was the worst review i have ever heard... Raise Your Voice Is a wikkid movie...
Even ppl who r NOT fans of Hialry Duff agree.. you are abusing ur rites as a write to dis someone u dont like.....ur review shows u r jelouse of Hialry Duff and her Fame....Shes only 17 and already after acheaving so much....she dont need jerks like u going around saying such horable things about her....she is a great actor and is lucky ur not the review for all her movies....
u should put out a public sorry to her for such a horable review....it was to harsh.......and i hope u lose ur job.
Your article on Hillary Duff was so stupid I couldn't read the whole thing without gagging!!! I don't know what you have agenst Hillary but you need to stop. She is not a bad actress, singer, or wrighter. Hillary ROCKS. You are an insult to all writers!
Stacy J. Willis' cover story about anti-billboard crusaders prompted a heated response:
I have to ask: You passed around pictures of exposed nipples? From billboards? Jesus, how hard were you staring at the damn sign? I mean, that'd be like me (a straight male) claiming to hate c--k, and yet here I am, snapping picture after picture of c--k and showing everyone. Like, "Gee, just look at all this c--k! I tell you, there is just c--k everywhere ..."
That a mere nipple-slip could be enough to drive away hunger has me hoping to God that Shari Petersen's kid doesn't someday peek into the back of this publication—or she's likely to shit herself.
Grow up. Or, even better, try some actual parenting, which involves more than just deceiving your children into believing that the world is very much like old '50s sitcoms.
Unfortunately, these parents have yet to reach a comfort level involving their own bodies, so explaining its many functions to their kids is a truly terrifying thought. However, we are all naked under these clothes, and even the biggest protest won't be enough to change the fact that you still have nipples, or that beneath a pair of tightly creased slacks may lurk a penis ...
It seems as though the things U R looking for are not that hard to find. I'm 29, gainfully employed as a dealer down on the Strip, cute, fun, not crazy, don't want to wear your underwear, am not hung like a toothpick. When it all comes down to it, I'm just a regular guy who's looking for something he hasn't found yet. ... I'm attaching a picture of me, hopefully U will get it, see it, fall in love with me immediately and rush to my doorstep begging me to marry U! hehe ... just teasin'.
Hope to hear from U soon.
Richard Abowitz's June 3rd cover story about trying to spend 24 hours in a gentlemen's club elicited this, um, passionate response:
Topless clubs are boring. I work as a stagehand at Club Paradise a few times a month for extra cash, but that's not why I wrote.
"I like not owning a home."
You're the first Las Vegan I've heard say that outright. All I seem to hear from people living here is how their house just got appraised for $80,000 more than 18 months ago and how I need to get one and it's a solid financial investment and "you really need to stop paying rent ..."
F--k them.
My name is Jon'te Aycox. I just wanted to say, all of you do a great job with the Las Vegas Weekly magazine.
What I notice, you mostly put women on your magazine covers. Don't get me wrong, of course, it's nice to see beautiful women on the cover, but what about us, the guys?
I think it would be nice if us (guys) had more of a chance, as well as the girls. I think the guys want attention, too. This picture is my zitcard. In 2003, I sent my pictures to your website; you probably recognize me. I hope I can be one of those guys on the cover one day. I will appreciate it.
Write back.
I have been a longtime reader of the Weekly, through its many incarnations—from Scope to glossy pinup-girl covers—and realized that a belated thank you is in order. Last week's issue [the March 18 road-trips issue] was, from cover to cover, a pleasure to read. The essays by Stacy J. Willis and Kate Silver were touching and beautifully written, and the overview of the Nevada Board of Regents made obscure local politics both a little less obscure and a lot more fun. It is so nice to have a publication in town whose writers are chosen because they can actually, well, WRITE. (Let's hope the Review-Journal takes note.)
You have consistently provided thoughtful, intelligent and yes, even beautiful writing to your readers, who (as evidenced by the letters column) don't always appreciate it. I wanted you to know that at least one of them does.
The following arrived for Steve Bornfeld:
I just read your review of my play Bash (January 29, 2003) and wanted to thank you for your thoughtful piece. ...
It's always nice to read someone who takes the time to say why they feel a certain way about something—like it or dislike it—and not just give a plot summary. I found your review very incisive.
Keep up the good work. We need more critics out there who believe not just in what they're doing, but in how they're doing it. Good luck with all.