LETTERS TO L.A. LIFE : MEMO TO `SUITS': TRY SHOWING SOMETHING WATCHABLE.By and large, the powers that be in TV have fed the public a stale diet of cops, docs and law shows the last several years. A few are memorable, but most are not. Now the trend to add some spice to the recipe is a heavy dose of teen-angst drama driven largely by gonads and hormones. As a middle-aged adult who has read a few books and enjoys literature, I can only wonder who dreams up these current story lines. If what makes it to the TV screen is the cream of the writing talent in this town, then TV is in big trouble. Maybe the ``suits'' who choose what is bought and shot and televised to a declining home audience should realize they are the cause more people are turning off their TV sets. Scriptwriting and storytelling do not necessarily need juvenile toilet humor or competitions to see who can work in the word a-- the most times during their show to be successful. For the many out here in the viewing audience who prefer to have their brains teased rather than their glands, I hope that there are some undiscovered writers out there with fresh ideas. A few talent scouts with the vision to recognize creativity and take a chance on something new and different would be refreshing too. Suits, listen up - I LOVE TV. Please show me something I can watch. - Steve Hubele - North Hollywood Madonna's image on attire found deeply offensive Remember when Muslim organizations came down on Nike because one of their shoes bore a design that looked like Allah in Arabic? How could you not think that profaning the image of the mother of Jesus would be any less offensive to Christians? We Catholics are well aware that we are part of the counterculture coun·ter·cul·ture n. A culture, especially of young people, with values or lifestyles in opposition to those of the established culture. coun , and as such we expect to be bashed. Still, it was a shock to see that the Daily News has so little respect for us that you would confront us with pages of pictures which profane PROFANE. That which has not been consecrated. By a profane place is understood one which is neither sacred, nor sanctified, nor religious. Dig. 11, 7, 2, 4. Vide Things. our most sacred icons. The use of the image of the Mother of God on clothing of such questionable taste is blasphemous blas·phe·mous adj. Impiously irreverent. [Middle English blasfemous, from Late Latin blasph and should be offensive to all Christians. If the designers want to ``honor mothers,'' let them put their own mothers' pictures on their clothes. Maybe the Catholic League can get Dolce dol·ce Music adv. & adj. In a gentle and sweet manner. Used chiefly as a direction. [From Italian, sweet, from Latin dulcis.] Adv. 1. & Gabbana, Gaultier, etc. to start sensitivity training for their employees as the Muslims did for Nike. - Dolane Larson - Burbank The models dressed like sluts in the March 12 edition of L.A. Life (``Divine inspiration: The original Madonna makes her mark on fashion'') are an insult to the Blessed Virgin Mary Blessed Virgin Mary n. The Virgin Mary. . Aren't all of the media satisfied with appealing to the animal nature in us without desecrating everything that is holy? When hearing all the rapes, murders, tossed babies in dump heaps in the news media, some of them act shocked. What the hell do you people expect? - Dottie Cumming Messina Moorpark Your recent article in L.A. Life (``Divine Inspirations'') featured a three-page spread on the latest women's fashions. This consisted of photos of various reproductions of classic Madonna and Child The Madonna and Child is one of the central icons of Christianity, representing the Madonna or Mary, mother of Jesus and her son. After some initial resistance and controversy, the formula "Mother of God" (Theotokos paintings placed on skimpy skimp·y adj. skimp·i·er, skimp·i·est 1. Inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting: a skimpy meal. 2. Unduly thrifty; niggardly. , see-through clothing See-through clothing is mesh or sheer clothing that allows the wearer's body to be seen through its fabric. Mesh or sheer is a similar type of fabric or a web in that it has many connected or woven pieces. . This is not only highly inappropriate but bad taste. This is the ultimate as to how far some will go to show derision, ridicule and contempt for what many consider most sacred in their lives. The piece starts with the snide remark ``don't get your rosary beads in a knot.'' To those of us who believe, the rosary is a sacramental sacramental, in the Roman Catholic Church, aid to devotion that is not a sacrament. Sacramentals are commonly divided into six classes: prayer, anointing, eating, confession, giving, and blessings. , beloved prayer dating back hundreds of years. There is mention of the crown of thorns crown of thorns Christ thus ridiculed as king of Jews. [N.T.: Matthew 27:29; Mark 15:17; John 19:2–5] See : Mockery to wear around the neck or ankles. These are objects dear and sacred to us and to use them in such an improper way reeks of sacrilege Sacrilege Sadness (See MELANCHOLY.) abomination of desolation epithet describing pagan idol in Jerusalem Temple. [O.T.: Daniel 9, 11, 12; N.T. , derision and ridicule - yes, even a sort of contemptuous hatred. If your reply is that you are only reporting a trend, I would say you have very little discretion. Today some would consider this a sort of hate crime. You lack sensitivity. Is this open season on Christianity? - Betty Belting Northridge |
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