Dear Rake Editors,
Are you out of your alleged minds? Judy Garland is less famous than Josh Hartnett? Okay, maybe among twenty-somethings at this exact second, but the cover said "of all time." Let’s see if "Black Hawk Down" is an annual TV event 60 years from now. Let’s see if people can name the character he played in 2022, let alone 2062! You say that Hartnett is "not yet through with his first fifteen minutes" of fame. Are you sure he’ll get a second fifteen? Tick tock…
I’m not even going to get started on the absurdity of some of the others you have above the immortal Ms. Garland.
By the way, Al Franken’s (he also should have been higher on your list) movie "Stuart Saves His Family" was not "astonishingly bad." Either Roger Ebert or his co-host at the time (was Gene Siskel still alive then?) or both gave the movie a good review. So does the Video Movie Guide by Mick Martin & Marsha Porter. The film was a victim of the fallout from other truly awful SNL films released before it. People assumed it was another "It’s Pat" and didn’t bother to go see it and find out they were wrong. Is that what you did, too? You don’t have to like it, of course. There is no accounting for taste (hence the career of Tom Green), but calling it "astonishingly bad" is a bit harsh to say the least.
D.M. Jordan
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