‘PIMP’ PUBLISHER

It was interesting to see how many of today’s young hipsters and trendsters, including Quentin Tarantino and Snoop Doggy Dogg, revere the film “The Mack� as a Hollywood original (Film Clips, Oct. 1).

But I was disappointed that writer Todd Boyd made only a passing reference to Iceberg Slim’s book “Pimp,� published by Holloway House in Hollywood, which specializes in black fiction. Slim wrote several books and novels about pimping, from which “The Mack� was almost certainly taken, without credit.

Holloway House also published many books (including “Black Gangster�) by the late Donald Goines, who probably inspired every black gangster film of the past five years, from “New Jack City� on down, also without credit.

To longtime fans of Holloway House paperbacks, Hollywood’s hippest black films are startlingly familiar.

LEW PIPES

Hollywood

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As delighted as I was to read that the fine 1974 melodrama “Three the Hard Way� would be playing at the Nuart (Movie Listings, Oct. 1), I would have been even happier had you correctly credited Jay Robinson as one of the co-stars of the movie instead of Andy Robinson.

Jay Robinson’s performance as Monroe Feather (“I know what you are thinking, light as a feather�) contains more ham than all of the delis in New York put together.

DAVE Del VAL

Dana Point