To the editor:
Although Vinalhaven’s Phil Crossman is possibly your best columnist, and certainly the most amusing, you should put a fact checker to work on his stuff. In his “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” (Dec.-Jan.) he refers to a figure whose skirt “blew up a little like Marilyn Monroe’s in ‘Some Like it Hot.’ ” As all of us old voyeurs know, while Marilyn did indeed decorate “Some Like it Hot,” her famous skirt blowing scene was in an earlier film, “The Seven Year Itch.” Having watched that scene being filmed on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue, I could never misplace it.
Norman Bunin
Vinalhaven