Ethics of Hollywood

Nowhere does Mathews suggest that L.A. County’s film industry earns, in our time of industrial humiliation, an enormous favorable balance of trade for the United States. Films have done so for decades, without one nickel of government subsidy.

He also omits the huge incomes that films bring to Los Angeles--all without polluting underground water or the coastline.

A survey of the print industry would disclose Byzantine plotting that destroys publishing empires and other excesses.

Calendar’s peek under the skirts of movie production is more like a “Cinema Vice” TV episode than a balanced report.

JULIAN BUD LESSER

Los Angeles