Critics are wrong about Amy Winehouse
LETTERS
IT was disheartening to read so much denigration of Amy Winehouse's performance at the Grammys [various articles, Feb. 11]. This is an artist of authentic and incomparable talent, and unlike almost all of the other great ladies who performed at the show, she's the writer as well as the singer of her songs.
It's comforting, however, to recall that countless classic musical artists, including Billie Holiday, Judy Garland and Janis Joplin, were severely lambasted by the writers of their time for being distinctive.
Paul Zollo
North Hollywood
Kind words
THANK you for that wonderful trip down memory lane as you honored Marilyn and Alan Bergman ["50 Years, Always With the Right Words," Feb. 9]. Their words and the music with which I sang them have been in my heart and in my voice for as long as I can remember!
Carol Marshall
Anaheim
Who's a winner?
RE "The Strike's Winners, Losers" [by Patrick Goldstein, Feb. 12]: Two of Goldstein's chosen "winners" are actually big losers:
(1) Jay Leno. He betrayed his longtime writing staff by doing scab writing of his monologues and prolonged the strike by alleviating the network's pain.
(2) Directors Guild of America leadership. They helped create rather than alleviate the impasse between the conglomerates and the Writers Guild. Nick Counter of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers would not have walked away from the WGA bargaining table had he not known that the always-management-friendly DGA would rush to the table to take the WGA's place.
Richard Alfieri
Los Angeles
Strathairn fan
Ifirst became aware of David Strathairn ["The Performance," Feb. 14] when he played the lovelorn Moss Goodman on the late-1980s TV show "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd." I fell immediately in love with him and have remained a big fan ever since.
Cindy Mediavilla
Culver City
