Your cover says Suzanne Somers is "a non-flake poet about to marry her honey of 10 years" (PEOPLE, Nov. 7). Yet the pictures inside show her running around the beach like a wacky movie star. Never mind, the story was great and so is Three's Company.
Jerry Whortan
Knoxville
Oh, come on! Suzanne Somers is so un-talented it's hard to watch her, uh, "acting." Can't you people get off the blonde bandwagon (Farrah, Cheryl, Suzanne, Lindsay and Margaux)?
Susette Brown
Rochester, N.Y.
Please, please don't call Suzanne Somers a poet. Okay, she's nice-looking and maybe she can act, but her writing is drivel. To call her a poet is to insult thousands of writers (in our country alone) who have trouble eating, much less getting national coverage.
Tracy Robert
Chico, Calif.
Barbara Seaman
Estrogen is not a panacea for the menopausal changes, nor does it offer the fountain of youth. But in selected individuals, I guarantee it is more reliable in its relief of flushes, osteoporosis (bone thinning) and emotional problems than "vitamins, some herbs...ginseng root and vitamin E."
Stanley R. Simon, M.D.
South Orange, N.J.
Thanks to Barbara Seaman, our daughters may be spared the pitfalls of estrogen. I've taken it 14 years and had many side effects. My friends who stayed with vitamin E, cod-liver oil and lecithin have fared much better. My dear mother always said, "Never take even an aspirin unless you have to."
Mrs. Jane Smith
Albuquerque
"Suicide is twice as high among Pill users"? Others would say 80 percent of all female suicides could have been prevented by estrogen therapy. In fact, estrogen deficiency and mental disease exhibit many of the same symptoms, and differential diagnosis often depends on who is doing the diagnosing, the psychiatrist or the gynecologist.
Barbara Huttmann, R.N.
Fullerton, Calif.
Robert Williams
I fail to see how those sample questions from Prof. Williams' IQ test for blacks "accurately measure black youngsters' potential." Potential to do what? To keep up with the latest street talk? I certainly hope Prof. Williams doesn't believe that all blacks should know the answers to those questions because here's one black who failed the test with a score of one out of five.
Katrina Diggs
San Jose, Calif.
I, too, have been working on an ethnic IQ test. I feel that present tests fail in evaluating Jewish-Americans. Here are typical questions. The first word is best defined by which of the following: 1) Meshugga (a) smart (b) sane (c) happy (d) crazy; 2) Kreplach (a) cake (b) crazy (c) found in soup (d) sweet; 3) Bagel (a) square (b) round (c) found in soup (d) crazy; 4) Drek (a) round (b) Prof. Williams' IQ test (c) square (d) crazy.
Paul Farber
Philadelphia
The Hensons
Jane Nebel Henson was my roommate at the University of Maryland. How mad I used to get at the mess in our room from Jane's art projects, including work on the Muppets. How proud I am now of the endless pleasure Jane and Jim have brought people all over the world. P.S. I've often wondered if Jane remembered my nose when she was creating Miss Piggy!
Pat Lacey DeBinder
Concord, Mass.
"I didn't create Miss Piggy," says Jane. "Henson Associates did. But I remember Pat as having a cute little nose. It's true about the mess. I used to have to stuff it all under my bed."
—ED.
Ronnie Van Zant
After a disappointing two weeks of waiting for the media to pay its respects to the deceased members of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band, PEOPLE came. Yours is an exceptionally sensitive article, a fitting final tribute to rare musical talent.
Chris Putrobono
Newburgh, N.Y.
Queen Victoria
Was that disgraceful display of Queen Victoria's drawers your way of waving goodbye to Prince Charles? We are not amused.
Joei White
Detroit
Simon Wiesenthal
I read your article on Simon Wiesenthal and was curious if he inspired the book The Boys from Brazil.
J. Strablonski
South Bend, Ind.
Wiesenthal was the model for the Nazi hunter in the 1976 thriller by Ira Levin, but was not exactly pleased with the "highly fictionalized" book. In it the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele of Auschwitz is devoured by three Doberman pinschers. "Levin made me look like a Jewish James Bond—which I am not."—ED.
As a fellow survivor of Mauthausen death camp (in Austria, not Poland), I commend you for your moving story on this man's tireless dedication. His mission serves not only as a memorial to those Jews who perished in the concentration camps but as a symbol of the hope for freedom and justice rightfully claimed by all men.
Salomon Moses
Omaha
Art Buchwald
Is the extra hand on the table the "funny business in Washington," or just some of Art Buchwald's humor? Barry L. Goldblatt
New Brunswick, N.J.
"The hand, "straight-faces Buchwald, "belongs to an IRS agent who always sits with me to make sure my three-martini lunch is business-deductible." (It actually belongs to a friend.)
—ED.
The Rev. James Mote
People like dissident Episcopal priest James Mote have turned organized religion into a male ego trip. Everyone knows that God is not male. God is love.
Mrs. J. Delaney
Middletown, N.Y.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
