BULLISH

Regarding Kristine McKenna’s July 19 commentary “When Hollywood Was Really a Man’s World” on Peter Biskind’s book “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and Rock ‘n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood”:

If one were to take the time to view the better films of that “golden era” of American movie-making, one could clearly see how brilliantly so many of those films showed us men as the violent, greedy, lecherous, abusive, dishonest monsters that we often are.

So if the accounts told in Biskind’s book are, in part or in whole, accurate, then at least the movie-makers of that era possessed the candor and the artistic integrity to portray these reprehensible traits for all the world to see.

RICHARD G. RODRIGUEZ

Newport Beach