WOMEN’S WORLD

It is continually frustrating and disheartening to read how difficult it is for actresses to find good women’s roles (“Dressed for Success,” by Elaine Dutka, Dec. 17).

I have offered a screenplay via query letter to agents and producers around town with what Jodie Foster calls a “fully etched woman character” and cannot even get them to read it, nevermind reject it (which seems unlikely, as my mother tells me it’s “brilliant”).

Despite a plethora of that which is just plain awful and unfortunate litigation jitters, I feel quite certain that floating around out there in the Try-Write Zone is a very large array of meaty roles just waiting to be chewed up by our hungry leading ladies.

If only they’d make contact. . . .

MICHELE ROBERTS

Pasadena

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The young actresses pictured all look beautiful. On the facing page, illustrating “Generation Veneration,” the five actresses from my generation all look ghastly. I’m sure it was just a printing error that made their faces look like death masks--wasn’t it?

NONIE LANN

Tarzana