Your correspondence to VIZ editor Hampton Doubleday
STAR LETTER
AS THE leading journal covering artistic endeavour in the UK, I thought readers of your august publication would be enlightened by my photograph of a sculpture I found in the Italian lakes. You can clearly see the influence of Michelangelo and Bernini in both shape and form, although I believe the grip on the shaft is distinctly reminiscent of Pisano.
Steve B, Edinburgh
WITHOUT Googling, can anyone name 10 famous people called Fanny? I think most of us would struggle after Fanny Brice and Fanny Craddock, yet a couple of hundred years ago seemingly every other woman was called Fanny. Do any of your readers know how and when this name fell out of favour, and who was the Fanny who broke the camel’s back? It’s just that I’m doing a PhD dissertation titled How the Patriarchy Wiped Out Fanny.
G Horsecock, Louth
HOWCOME trousers in this country only come in even-numbered waist sizes – 30-inch, 32-inch, 34-inch etc? Don’t British people have odd-numbered waist sizes, or is this a huge part of the population who are simply being discriminated against?
Hector Golightly, Penge
I WONDER if your readers can help me remember the title of a film I saw as a child. I don’t recall much of the plot, but it was mostly about men in stetson hats riding horses and shooting at each other. It was set in the past, I think, possibly in America. Can anyone help?
Mathew Shepherd, Derby
are always banging on about ‘How long is a piece of string?’. Well, I have a
