render@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA (09/13/85)
Jeff Lichtman writes: >Kelvin Thompson has gotten a lot of flames for making fun of movies. May I >point out that he is making fun of movie reviewers, not the movies themselves? >My guess is that the people who take themselves most seriously as amateur >reviewers are the ones who fail to see the humor in Kelvin's reviews. It >would require them to laugh at themselves. I know, I know, the only reason I don't like Thompson is that I am a cretin with no appreciation for satiric writing. Now can you put a lid on the constant chatter about him? It is bad enough having to skip his articles, but now I am deluged with notes from people telling me to quit being such a close-minded snob. I do not care for his reviews, but I keep quiet about them. Can you, his loyal fans, do the same? Hal Render Dept. of Computer Science University of Illinois {pur-ee, ihnp4} ! uiucdcs ! render render@uiuc.csnet render@uiuc.arpa