Strong opinions

9 TO THE EDITOR OF Time MAGAZINE

published on January 18, 1971

I find highly objectionable the title of the piece («Profit without Honor», December 21, 1970) on the musical adaptation of Lolita as well as your sermonet on the scruples that I once happened to voice concerning its filming (« . . . to make a real twelve-year-old girl play such a part would be sinful and immoral. . . ). When cast in the title role of Kubrick's neither very sinful nor very immoral picture, Miss Lyon was a wellchaperoned young lady, and I suspect that her Broadway successor will be as old as she was at the time. Fourteen is not twelve, 1970 is not 1958, and the sum of $150,000 you mention is not correct.