Sir, - Please confirm my suspicion that that in a D'Olier Street garret you are harbouring a hack whose idea of journalism is to invent as many punning headlines as possible. Last Saturday, he set a new record. I have discovered the following captions, writ large: "Getting knotted", "Let's get fizzical", "Naughty maids of Greene" (ouch), "His bite was worse than his quark", "Play for Ireland" and "Irony in the soul". The female star of The End of the Affair is twice saluted, with "Moore success" and, on the front page, "Moore the merrier".
Any day now, I am expecting to read of "a Fiennes romance" and a "Rea of sunshine" This is a poor diversion for an elderly film buff who would like something a trifle more literate before he goes across the Jordan. - Yours, etc.,
Hugh Leonard, Pilot View, Dalkey, Co Dublin.