22 FEBRUARY 1992, Page 26

Hair shirtless

Sir: While agreeing that neither The Plea- sure Principle nor Peter Firth's performance therein was up to much, surely it says some- thing about Vanessa Letts (Arts, 15 Febru- ary) that she should castigate him for hav- ing a 'hairless' body. What, one wonders, would she have said of Burt Lancaster in the famous beach scene in From Here to Eternity?

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