3 DECEMBER 1994, Page 40

Sir: Surely the most chilling aspect of the letter you

saw fit to publish from the Holly- wood political bimbocracy was not the arro- gance of these people who seek to teach us what to think from the insecurity of a moral basis that requires CV detail to confer authority, but the presence in the list of sig- natories of the revered name of Charlton Heston. I had never realised how far things have gone (Letters, 26 November).

Unless he supplies a reasoned explana- tion in short order and in English this time, I will erase my video of The Big County, Jean Simmons notwithstanding.

Douglas Finney

34 Bolingbroke Grove, London SW11