Popping that Southern bubble

Regarding “Hollywood Forgets ‘We’re All Just People’ ” [May 21]: I don’t know whose bright idea it was to dig up three entitled women to represent the South, two of whom are admitted Republicans and seem to live in their own bubble. But to have such clueless, arrogant people blather on and on about their perceptions of Hollywood while defending a party of deplorables and bragging about a friendship with an adulterer and misogynic racist is simply a waste of newsprint. Julie T. Byers Arcadia

Sorry, your writer forgets the more realistic movies with a Southern setting — the adaptations of novels by Grisham and Conroy, to start with. The fables and fairy tales writer Tre’vell Anderson lists have no more realistic connection to the South than “Fargo” has to Minnesota or “La La Land” has to California. Joseph Cooper Santa Barbara

One of the Southerners claiming that Hollywood has gotten out of touch with the people says it hasn’t made anything “from a conservative viewpoint in so long” and the industry doesn’t bother to “understand [our] point of view.”

But that’s exactly the problem — treating politics as a viewpoint. Government is supposed to be a tool that practically solves problems. The best solutions don’t come from what you or I want but what actually works to fix the issue and is for the public good. It is my belief that we are in this dysfunctional mess because too many Americans think that “liberal” and “conservative” are just teams you pick. Zareh Delanchian Tujunga