The Writer’s Role
Concerning “How ‘Casualties of War’ Survived,” Aug. 13:
If reporter Paul Rosenfield hadn’t seen fit to deal with matters such as people who wonder about the colors in the office of Dawn Steele (president of Columbia Pictures, which made “Casualties of War”) , he might have discovered that the motion picture’s screenwriter, David Rabe, angrily sought to disassociate himself from this preposterous cinematic vanity act.
Although Rabe’s profound disappointment with the movie hasn’t escaped other journalists, Rosenfield was so typically star-struck that he allowed producer Art Linson to babble without challenge about how “the writer is the real deal in Hollywood.”
Perhaps in the future Rosenfield will do less hyperventilating over Easthampton softball games and Hollywood and the exercise of power and devote more attention to reporting the news.
JOSHUA PHILLIPS
Pasadena
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