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PLENTY OF GAY FILMS HERE I was surprised and disappointed when I read Martha Miller’s opinion piece about gay-themed films playing at the theaters in Springfield [“The examined life,” Jan. 5]. Her claim that “local theaters still avoid running films with gay content” doesn’t hold water. Brokeback Mountain, a film currently playing in only 483 theaters nationwide, is playing at the Parkway Pointe. Capote will open on Feb. 3 when the film goes into wider release to coincide with the Academy Award nominations. (We attempted to obtain a print earlier but were unable.) If Ms. Miller would have taken the time to look at our show times while writing her article, she would have seen that we were playing a couple of films with considerable gay content, Rent and The Family Stone. Within the last couple of years we’ve also played the following films that had an emphasis on gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender themes: Kissing Jessica Stein, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Bad Education, Kinsey, and Before Night Falls. We play a wide variety of films to appeal to the varied interests of customers. I encourage anyone with a question or film-related suggestion to contact me via e-mail at scottingham@kerasotes.com. Scott Cottingham Film Buyer Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatres
WHAT A LOCAL TREASURE WE HAVE I just want to let you know how much I enjoy and appreciate Jacqueline Jackson’s poem/thought/quote/tidbit of wisdom/musing that you publish each week. Sometimes these left-margin italicized events of consciousness-raising cause me to laugh out loud, and other times I am moved to tears. What a local treasure we have in this wonderful woman, teacher, writer, and inspiration. Vonnie Salm Springfield
DOCS ARE TREMENDOUS ASSETS I want to congratulate you and your staff for the article on Drs. Glennon Paul, Donald Gumprecht, and Pradeep Kulkarni [Bruce Rushton, “Playing for keeps,” Jan. 5]. I have been a patient of Dr. Paul’s for several years, as has most of my family. He has shown our family nothing but kindness and concern, particularly when my late father-in-law needed a local doctor in order to live in a local residential rehabilitation facility after breaking his arm. Dr. Paul was more than willing to add him to his patient load and did everything he could to make Buddy feel at home during his time in rehabilitation. When Buddy passed away while at our home, Dr. Paul offered us a lot of comfort in our time of sadness. I can also say that, thanks to Dr. Paul’s immediate and aggressive treatments, my older daughter has been kept out of the hospital many times when an asthma attack developed. Drs. Paul, Gumprecht, and Kulkarni are tremendous assets to this community, as well as to the medical community. For them to have fought the beast and won is, in and of itself, something to be commended. Larry Smith Springfield
PLENTY OF GAY FILMS HERE I was surprised and disappointed when I read Martha Miller’s opinion piece about gay-themed films playing at the theaters in Springfield [“The examined life,” Jan. 5]. Her claim that “local theaters still avoid running films with gay content” doesn’t hold water. Brokeback Mountain, a film currently playing in only 483 theaters nationwide, is playing at the Parkway Pointe. Capote will open on Feb. 3 when the film goes into wider release to coincide with the Academy Award nominations. (We attempted to obtain a print earlier but were unable.) If Ms. Miller would have taken the time to look at our show times while writing her article, she would have seen that we were playing a couple of films with considerable gay content, Rent and The Family Stone. Within the last couple of years we’ve also played the following films that had an emphasis on gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender themes: Kissing Jessica Stein, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Bad Education, Kinsey, and Before Night Falls. We play a wide variety of films to appeal to the varied interests of customers. I encourage anyone with a question or film-related suggestion to contact me via e-mail at scottingham@kerasotes.com. Scott Cottingham Film Buyer Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatres
WHAT A LOCAL TREASURE WE HAVE I just want to let you know how much I enjoy and appreciate Jacqueline Jackson’s poem/thought/quote/tidbit of wisdom/musing that you publish each week. Sometimes these left-margin italicized events of consciousness-raising cause me to laugh out loud, and other times I am moved to tears. What a local treasure we have in this wonderful woman, teacher, writer, and inspiration. Vonnie Salm Springfield
DOCS ARE TREMENDOUS ASSETS I want to congratulate you and your staff for the article on Drs. Glennon Paul, Donald Gumprecht, and Pradeep Kulkarni [Bruce Rushton, “Playing for keeps,” Jan. 5]. I have been a patient of Dr. Paul’s for several years, as has most of my family. He has shown our family nothing but kindness and concern, particularly when my late father-in-law needed a local doctor in order to live in a local residential rehabilitation facility after breaking his arm. Dr. Paul was more than willing to add him to his patient load and did everything he could to make Buddy feel at home during his time in rehabilitation. When Buddy passed away while at our home, Dr. Paul offered us a lot of comfort in our time of sadness. I can also say that, thanks to Dr. Paul’s immediate and aggressive treatments, my older daughter has been kept out of the hospital many times when an asthma attack developed. Drs. Paul, Gumprecht, and Kulkarni are tremendous assets to this community, as well as to the medical community. For them to have fought the beast and won is, in and of itself, something to be commended. Larry Smith Springfield
