Warners

Diets work. Even some of the most cockamamie diets work if you follow them. But as many serial dieters know, the trick is keeping the weight off after the wedding, or the high school reunion, or the motivating look in the dressing room mirror. I know - I really know - how hard it is to maintain weight loss. I've lost maybe 500 pounds in my lifetime. So I knew enough to be skeptical when I saw Jackie Warner's book "10 Pounds in 10 Days. " Of course, I didn't let that stop me. The diet industry exists because we fail, often again and again, at the hard work of a lifelong healthful diet and activity plan.

About "The Run on Robin Hood," July 26: If "The Adventures of Robin Hood" of 1938 was Warner's first Technicolor release, then who released "God's Country and the Woman" in 1937? "Robin Hood of El Dorado" was about Mexican bandit Joaquin Murietta. And because Kevin Costner is now reusing the title "Prince of Thieves," it would have been worthwhile to mention the 1948 release, which starred John Hall. Picayune maybe, but look, you're writing for Hollywood! BILL WOLFE Hollywood

Two months after raising the possibility of retirement, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner on Wednesday said he would return in 2007. Although Warner left himself room to change his mind, it was his most definitive statement yet about his plans. In October, the 35-year-old Warner acknowledged he had begun considering retirement after losing the starting job to rookie Matt Leinart. But Warner, who has two years remaining on his contract, said he's looking forward to a 10th NFL season.

The Warner Park Assn. represents residents in the community who have gone on record as being opposed to the development of multiple structures in Warner Park. Requests for consideration of the residents' concerns have fallen on deaf ears with our elected representative. The association was informed of a meeting to be held between representatives of the Valley Cultural Center, the Cultural Foundation and an architect who has been retained to prepare plans for a permanent stage to be constructed in Warner Park.

The Forester Sisters don't give two hoots about being hip. Instead of jumping on the "new traditionalist" bandwagon that's the rage in country music circles, they're singing the same mushy stuff they always have, with the same sweet, melt-in-your mouth vocal harmonies of such celebrated "sister" singing groups of the past like the Andrews Sisters and the McGuire Sisters.