LETTER TO THE TORONTO SUN, RE: IT SHOULD BE SHAME ON VANITY FAIR AND ANNIE LEIBOVITZ FOR MILEY CYRUS' EXPLOITIVE SEMI-NUDE PHOTO SPREAD, JOE WARMINGTO

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I don't know much about "Miley Cyrus," because I'm a little outside of her age "demographic!!!!! (LOL!!! I am 78 years old)" BUT, as I opened my copy of the best newspaper in town (yours (Toronto Sun)) today and saw this Vanity Fair "photo" of her I was IMMEDIATELY attracted and felt a very deep stirring for her!! Imagine my surprise when I found out she was only 15 YEARS OLD!!!! The exact same age plus two years of my grandson, Barry!! I was TRICKED by Vanity "Fair" into being attracted to a CHILD which is the "worst" thing I could ever imagine!!

I felt very nauseous but was reassured by Joe Warmington's measured response. As he stated, he is a CLOSE, PERSONAL friend of Miley's father, Bill Ray, and I can only assume that he will send him a TERSE, but FAIR "e-mail" telling him that he is a poor father. It is a shame that legally you can't take kids away from "celebrities," as that is how Drew Barrymore became what she is today (I think you know what I'm "talking" about).

Anyways, I appreciate that you suggested I go to your website, http://www.torontosun.com/miley for seventeen CLEANER photos of this cutey girl star!!! Those photos leave something to the imagination and made me realize a little something about the sexualizingation of our "children." By leaving something to my "imagination" you make me have to decide whether or not to do any "imagining," i.e: being a PERVERT. But when you show me pictures where my imagination doesn't need to do ANYTHING and I am ATTRACTED, then it is YOUR fault because you have done the "dirty work" and I have nothing to be ashamed of. Case over.

-Melvin "Mel" Zdarsky

(UNpublished letter to Toronto Sun) Drinking & Driving THESE Days!! (Wrong!!)

RE: RAISE A GLASS TO SOBRIETY
TORONTO SUN, DECEMBER 26, 2007

As a senior, your article about drinking and driving brought back a lot of memories. When I was young (I'm still young AT HEART!!) I, along with my "friends," would routinely drive drunk and had several accidents to prove it!! Almost no one was hurt but the fact remained that what I did was wrong. Those were "different" times.

My earliest memories of my mother were of her learning how to drive and how she fought her "driving nerves" with my father's homemade whiskey. But these are "different times" and my mother would probably be in jail if she hadn't been dead these last fifty years.

Putting my nice memories aside for a second, I have to agree wholeheartedly with Paul Berton's article on booze and the New Year. While drinking during New Year's Eve warms the body, the blood spilt is also warm but is no longer in the body. We should all think about that this upcoming "eve" and put a cork in it!!!

-Melvin Zdarsky