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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
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2006.
