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RIP Robert Duvall
It’s the tip of an period — Robert Duvall was quietly mesmerizing in “Tender Mercies,” one of my all-time favourite movies (“Duvall was the reel deal,” Feb. 17).
Like his peer Gene Hackman, Duvall was completely real and natural in all his performances.
Understatement appears to be gone from Hollywood, however by no means forgotten, thanks to those sensible actors.
Patricia Keane
Eastport
Bronx mall riot
Mayor Mamdani, why didn’t you ship in your workforce of social staff to quell Monday’s riot in The Bronx? I suppose you do need the police (“Riot raps in mall mayhem,” Feb. 18).
There is a easy method to stop this and the harm these children did to the shops: Hold the mother and father accountable and have them pay for the harm their youngsters did. Most of the rioters have been children between the ages of 13 and 16.
Hit the mother and father of their pockets and I guarantee this sort of conduct will stop.
Stephen Colasacco
The Bronx
‘Demon’ TDS
If you ever need an illustration of why this nation won’t ever get forward, look no additional than this ex-ESPN character turned clown reporter, Sarah Spain (“Ex-ESPNer rips ‘demon energy’ JD,” Feb. 14), who mentioned she felt sick sitting close to JD Vance on the Olympics.
I’m an unbiased, I might care much less about politics. But this has been the perspective of the left: “You don’t agree with me, I hate you, I’m going to cancel you and I wish you were dead.”
When Joe Biden gained in 2020, did Republicans transfer out of the nation? Were people continuously protesting, claiming “not my president?”
This individual can’t even stand to be in the identical building because the vice president, solely as a result of his affiliation with the president makes him a “demon.”
Rob Cerone
Manhattan
AI’s woke bias
As an octogenarian with a forgetful mind and weary bones, I’m solely afraid that AI within the unsuitable palms, these of the educational elite, will drive a radical change within the free-wheeling society of my youth (“Time we woke up to lefty AI,” Miranda Devine, Feb. 19).
I worry the uniformity of an AI-engineered society designed by the aforementioned know-it-alls, the grayness of myrmidons marching in serried ranks to the identical drummer, the highly effective beat instilling a rhythm of absolute compliance with out unbiased thought or pity.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
Trump enjoying Zel?
President Trump has been enjoying Volodymyr Zelensky from the get go (“Zel puts trust in Trump,” Feb. 19).
Trump is afraid of Vladimir Putin and refuses to take him on, so he sends amateurs Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to barter with Russia, figuring out they gained’t be getting wherever with Putin. It’s a joke.
Hank DePerro
Manhattan
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It’s not simply weapons
Here we go again with one other horrific mass capturing, and no doubt the knee-jerk response from the left shall be stricter gun legal guidelines (“Trans-dad rampage,” Feb. 17).
But what about knife stabbings and vehicle ramming assaults which lead to massacres? No one has ever known as for stricter knife or vehicle legal guidelines.
Where there’s a will, there’ll at all times be a approach. Of course, weapons kill. But it’s actually hate that pulls the set off. And it’s subsequent to not possible to establish the hate every time earlier than it kills.
JoAnn Lee Frank
Clearwater, Fla.
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