Columnist Isn’t This Reader’s Cup of Tea

Scott Harris’ sophomoric attempt at humor in his column “Eisner’s Flanking Maneuver” (Oct. 4) missed its mark by the widest of margins.

I am not writing to defend the person, style or business acumen of Disney’s Michael Eisner. He, I am certain, is well equipped to handle that himself.

Mr. Harris does try. However, he seems regularly to come away minus humor, cleverness, sensitivity, subtlety or a modicum of discipline. Instead, his cynical take on Eisner arrives with an obviously forced and peevish mixture of sarcasm, churlishness, mean-spiritedness and, yeah, pettiness.

PHIL KRIEGLER

Studio City