Stone Film

Henry Kissinger just doesn’t get it (“Stone Leaves the Truth on Cutting Room Floor,” Opinion, Jan. 21).

Oliver Stone is an artist. He has no obligation to present “the truth” about anything or any person, living or dead, even if he would presume to be able to do so. Here is Kissinger, international raconteur and statesman to the stars, joining that befuddled group who finds the medium Stone chooses for his work to be too powerful for the common good. “With a filmmaker as adept as Stone, the viewer is almost completely at the mercy of his cinematic devices to induce a suspension of disbelief,” he says. Come on, Henry, that’s what you paid your $7 for.

BOB GALBREATH

Westchester

* I have no sympathy for Kissinger’s disappointment because he and most other current and former government officials have made little progress in limiting the secret classification of huge amounts of information--information that would, if more promptly made public, help establish the truth.

ART BROSTRAND

Riverside