Price of Criticism

Howard Rosenberg, on Dennis Miller, (“Tell Us What You Really Think, Dennis,” March 8): “He’s usually less amusing than a Lithuanian dentist looking like a Komodo dragon playing Richard II in front of an audience of three-fingered Smurfs on a day so cold that icicles form on the noses of Aleutian accountants having lunch at a cafe whose electric dishwasher works only when you kick it three times and pray in Italian for seven consecutive days of sunshine in Topeka, Kan.”

If The Times is paying you by the word, it’s being shortchanged.

MARVIN LANDFIELD

Mission Viejo