12 NOVEMBER 1994, Page 34

Sir: I regret that the frequently provocative William Cash has

quoted me entirely out of context in his recent article on Hollywood Jewry. I had cited the incident of the Har- vard Brahmin trying to dress in a more flamboyant, 'show business' mode, as the only occasion in my decade in Hollywood in which someone I knew suspected they were being excluded by some sort of ethnic cabal. The Harvard man, who had failed at several other careers before doing so as producer, was paranoid and always looking for scapegoats. The point of the anecdote was to rebut Mr Cash's thesis, not to sup- port it.

William Stadiem

101 California Avenue, Santa Monica, California, USA