Gone With a Refund

Thanks to The Times for exposing the “Gone With the Wind” re-release travesty--from the blatantly false “restoration” advertising to the shoddy prints being exhibited in theaters (“Frankly, My Dear, You’re a Bit Blurry,” by Bill Desowitz, July 7).

I sat through 20 minutes of a blurry, color-fragmented screening in mono sound before asking for my money back (dragging along my 82-year-old grandmother, who was convinced she was simultaneously losing both her vision and hearing.)

The corporate buck-passing detailed in your pages is pathetic. I pity anyone whose first exposure to this classic is through this profoundly inferior release. Everyone responsible should be ashamed.

MATTY BAER

Torrance