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What a cute couple they make. However, both Jennifer and Brad should be able to look at their recent picture (compared to the old ones) and realize that she is much more beautiful with shorter hair and he is 10 times more handsome without that tacky goatee.
M. Brown, Dallas
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton en vogue? Puh-leez! They look and act like a couple of mangy alley cats in heat!
Maree Taylor, Evergreen, Colo.
What style secrets are we talking about? With millions of dollars, I bet I could figure out some of those "secrets" too.
Melinda Green, Boston
Sen. Jim Jeffords
Were Jim Jeffords truly becoming an Independent for the noble reasons he claims, he would have waited until his next campaign before announcing his change of heart. What about the scores of Vermont citizens who voted strictly along party lines? Jeffords ran as a Republican; he should serve as one until his term expires.
Charlotte Malczyk, Sharpsville, Ind.
Khiev Twins
How wonderful it was to read about how these twin girls are taking care of their twin baby brothers. Trying to go to school and be substitute mothers is certainly not an easy job. Their mother would be proud.
Judy Young, Schenectady, N.Y.
Although my heart goes out to this family, please explain why all those caring people at the hospital showed two children how to take care of these babies. Why not the father? He doesn't work, yet "he spends little time around the house"! He spent enough time to have eight children. These young girls stepped in when everybody else let them down. But the state should have taken these sweet babies and put them in a home where there are responsible adults to raise them.
Kathi Sliwinski, Newport, Mich.
Natalie Wood
I was always a fan of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner and, like so many fans, shared the great sorrow of our loss at her death. I can't help but think now of the guilt and remorse felt by the parties on board the Splendor that night, but especially of the emotions felt by Wagner. This seems another tragedy that could have been avoided had not alcohol and jealousy been part of the scene.
M.D. Bryce, Paradise, Calif.
Natalie appeared to have been drunk the night she died, as did Christopher Walken. I guess overdosing on alcohol, having an affair while still married, flaunting your lover in the face of your rich and famous husband, all while sailing to a remote island on the family yacht, just don't mix well!
Arlene B. Jermakian-Heed
North Valley Stream, N.Y.
Suzanne Finstad's comment that Natalie was the Julia Roberts of her era is ludicrous. Julia could never hold a candle to Natalie's talent or accomplishments.
M. Herndon, Clifton, Va.
I was outraged when I read the excerpt from Natasha. I was particularly upset by the author's statement that "according to friends" Natalie split up with Robert Wagner because she discovered him in a "compromising position" with another man. As Robert Wagner's best friend and a dear friend of Natalie's, I would like to know what "friends" Suzanne Finstad is referring to. Had any such event ever taken place, R.J. or Natalie certainly would have told me. They didn't, of course, because it never happened. I feel that including this fiction in what is supposed to be a legitimate biography is unkind, untrue and unnecessary.
Robert Conrad, Bear Valley, Calif.
Ms. Finstad replies: "Sources for Natalie's explanation include two close friends since childhood. Natalie gave the same account to her mother, who discussed it with several friends and Natalie's sister Lana. The details are in the book. When I interviewed Mr. Conrad on Sept. 7, 1999, he told me he 'didn't really know Natalie that well, frankly...my ties are with R.J.' Mr. Conrad said he saw Natalie only once, briefly, 'from the time she left R.J.' until the Wagners' remarriage, when, he said, 'I hardly ever saw either of them.' "
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Scoop
I believe ABC will suffer by replacing Barbara Walters's 20/20 with Once and Again. As a 20-year-old college student, I resent Chris Geraci's assumption that "older people like news programs and younger ones don't." Like many of my peers, I would far rather sit down to an informative news program than yet another sappy prime-time soap opera about a middle-aged woman dealing with the loss of her youth. Generalizations such as Mr. Geraci's about the demographic of which I am a member are both insulting and uninformed.
Meghan Murphy, New Canaan, Conn.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
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