I feel for Tony Parker, wish him the best with his eye injury and hope that he recovers without any further complications (“Drake-Brown Fight Club Shuttered,” June 27).
However, his $20 million lawsuit against W.i.P.’s owners is misdirected. Shouldn’t he be suing Chris Brown and Drake, the idiots who started the bottle-throwing incident?
It doesn’t seem like a fair outcome that the club’s doors are shut, but Brown and Drake are free to go clubbing and bottle throwing at other establishments.
David Danman, Morristown, NJ
News or nonsense
Kyle Smith’s column, “Break the News” is super ( PostScript, June 24).
I am sick of left-wing nuts flogging garbage about the United States having an awful infant-mortality rate. The Europeans, with higher rankings don’t count it as a live birth until the kid is practically ready for kindergarten.
We probably have the best accurate rate of any major country — not counting boutique countries like Switzerland.
Good one, Smith.
Bob Schwartz, Cypress, Calif.
“Break the News” is nothing more than an attack on the possible political leanings of Aaron Sorkin through the dialogue of some of the characters.
Smith apparently does not spend any time watching talking heads, because the absence and skewering of facts has become more commonplace in our 24-hour news-cycle society.
It’s sad that he could write such an unfocused piece about the show — a clear indication that Post readers would be better served having Smith write movie reviews full time.
Calvin Hill, Cambria Heights
Of great character
No amount of training could have put Pat Tillman and others like him into a sane frame of mind when they went into combat time after time. He went to hell on Earth to serve (“Letters From Pat,” June 24).
I am surprised Tillman had so many doubts about his place in the war effort.
If a man of his character could question himself, what would have happened to a soldier who was drafted, had conscription still existed?
Ray Hackinson, Ozone Park
A Post classic
I had the pleasure of meeting Nora Ephron in 1964 when I was working at the Brooklyn College Kingsman and Ephron was covering a student riot at the college (“A Great NY Dame,” PostOpinion, John Podhoretz, June 27).
She came into the Kingsman office to call The Post and then spent time telling us about life as a member of the “real” working press.
It was all very inspiring to us student reporters, many of whom went on to their own careers in journalism.
We will never forgot Ephron for giving us one of our earliest exposures to New York’s newspaper business.
George Haber, Jericho
As an addendum The Post’s fine coverage of the late Nora Ephron, it should be mentioned that her parents were Henry and Phoebe Ephron, who penned many great plays and screenplays, including the screen adaptation of the romantic comedy classic “Desk Set,” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
Ephron certainly came from fine literary and theatrical stock, and her great talent will be sorely missed.
Ray Faiola, Manhattan