Artistic Realism

I am writing in response to Steve Klindworth’s May 14 letter, in which he says “shame on you, Orion” because the studio used a print ad in which a movie character is smoking a cigarette.

Shame on you, Mr. Klindworth, for not realizing that the young man in Orion’s ad for “Lost Angels” is not attempting to be cool.

Granted, in 1955 this may have looked cool to some, as Klindworth suggests. But it happens to be a fact of life in 1989.

And I see nothing wrong with it in print ad art or any art medium depicting life; especially if, good or not, it strives to be realistic.

ROBERT G. CLAYTON

Thousand Oaks