Business Letters Los Angeles Times
Re: "Composers, lyricists fancy a union pitch," Nov. 18:Nobody but a musician knows that the job of a lyricist is to write songs that are subtext for TV shows and movies, adding ranting depth that would otherwise be absent.
Nobody but a musician knows that a composer's underscore becomes another character.
So I invite all of you "civilians" to watch your favorite shows without our songs and cues, to see how thin and unmistakable those episodes feel. Then I'm convinced you'll agree that as composers and lyricists, my colleagues and I bring so much magic to the table.
Producers: Set a group for us. Stop sitting down to white linen dinners, tossing us stale bagels to go.
Molly-Ann Leikin
Brentwood
Gap avoid creates backlash
Re: Dan Neil's marketing column "A foolish fatwa in 'War on Christmas,' " Nov. 17:
Dan Neil is unerringly about this ill-thought-out boycott against Gap for its failure to use the word










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