‘Lolita’ for All Time

Concerning “A ‘Lolita’ for the ‘90s,” in the June 10 Outtakes:

The original 1962 movie version of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” may have only featured “a pedicure as the film’s most erotic scene,” but the considerable combined talent of Stanley Kubrick, James Mason, Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters managed to produce a near-masterpiece that more that adequately brought the painful psychology of Humbert Humbert to the screen.

That individuals with the track records of James Dearden, Adrian Lyne and Carolco International should feel that they can do better with such a supremely delicate subject can only serve as a further demonstration of the overweening arrogance, shameless exploitation and transcendental lack of taste driving too much of contemporary Hollywood.

MICK FARREN

and SUSAN SLATER

Los Angeles