Mike De Luca’s Behavior: Where’s the Morals Clause?

Had Mike De Luca been a part of Hollywood during its halcyon days (which had its scandals too), chances are that, faced with the perverse display described in “De Luca’s Behavior Has Town Buzzing, Some Worried” [The Biz, March 27], his studio would have invoked the morals clause in his contract and shown him the gate.

The popular philosophy these days, however, is to excuse any sort of aberrant behavior on constitutional grounds. The public persona is considered apart from the private one and job approval more important than ethical standards.

How about looking at the whole package for a change?

GERRY BAUR

Ojai

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De Luca’s bosses at New Line Cinema should explain to him that he is merely the company’s president of production, not the president of the United States.

ROBERT I. HILLEARY

Hacienda Heights

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An entertainment “name” grosses out a private party and thus merits a gossipy 45 column inches with color picture on the front page of The Times’ Business section. What part of “responsible journalism” does The Times not understand?

LOUIS COHEN

Riverside

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This 32-year-old “wheel” may be a big shot making $300,000 a year as production chief of New Line Cinema, but if this “account,” as well as other of his “antics” (your word) are factual, he is a very small potato.

Tell me, why was De Luca not arrested on an indecent-exposure charge? There were many, many witnesses, were there not?

IMOGENE G. GEMBRINI

Palm Desert

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To think that people like De Luca are practicing their form of seduction and that responsible editors of the movie and publishing industries are tolerating such imagery is, in a phrase, killing the duck that laid the golden egg.

Tar and feather the guy, and run him out of town on a rail.

J.J. SMITH

La Quinta