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Larger Than Life

Babies in Hollywood. Having fun with Indiana Jones. Obama’s word (sic). Latest Roush magic. Plus more.
p> BEING FUNNY br> Re: Jay D. Homnick’s A Matter of Life and Birth : /p>

I liked Mr. Homnick’s essay “A Matter of Life and Birth,” but I found his puns cloying. They just kept on a-coming! The first four or five paragraphs almost made me stop reading. Only because I am staunchly pro-life did I find the motivation to keep on a-reading.

I know it’s a matter of style; de gustibus and all that. It may be Mr. Homnick’s nature to write that way, but it is not my nature to read that way.

p>A little less would have been a lot better. br> — James F. Csank br> Seven Hills, Ohio /p>

Jay Homnick opines that the lesson Hollywood is teaching the world is that “life, even when the titles and subtitles are out of synch, is always beautiful.” Baloney. What Hollywood is teaching the world is that the narcissism of stardom allows one to ignore “conventions,” aka marriage and a two-parent household, whenever it suits one to do so. That may work for celebrity, multi-millionaires. For most others, it’s the surest route to a life of poverty, misery, crime and/or lowered expectations.

p>And that isn’t “beautiful,” Mr. Homnick.
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