Readers sound off on Bruce Willis, the election’s wake and vigilantism

Bruce Willis gave radical who stutter existent hope

South Bend, Ind.: It gave maine heavy sadness to work your nonfiction “Bruce Willis, woman dismissed aboriginal signs dementia owed to puerility stutter” (Oct. 31) astir Willis successful the deteriorating stages of superior progressive aphasia frontotemporal dementia and however it archetypal negatively affected his speech.

Willis has been some a leader and a relation exemplary to the worldwide stuttering assemblage for 39 years since his days connected “Moonlighting,” erstwhile helium would talk publically astir his past stuttering. The website of The Stuttering Foundation (StutteringHelp.org) has a biographical nonfiction connected Willis titled “Bruce Willis — Look Who’s Talking,” astir his lifelong struggles with stuttering and how, astatine property 20, a operation of acting and code therapy guided him to fluent speech.

What a calamity that astatine the extremity of his life, helium erstwhile again started to person disfluent speech. Willis’ concern is reminiscent of that different celebrated PWS (person who stutters): the Stuttering Foundation website besides has a biographical nonfiction connected Marilyn Monroe, who battled stuttering astatine assorted times successful her life. In the last 2 weeks of her life, dealing with anxiousness and substance abuse, she was nether truthful overmuch accent successful her idiosyncratic beingness that her stuttering returned. In her nonrecreational life, she had occupation giving her lines successful her past movie, “Something’s Gotta Give,” from which she was fired and which was ne'er finished.

Through his calamity of dementia, it should beryllium noted that Willis has ever been a leader to truthful galore radical who stutter passim the world. Juan Gardea

RIP, ‘Q’

Manhattan: Farewell, Quincy Jones (“Quincy Jones, euphony biz titan, dies astatine 91,” Nov. 5). Impresario, maestro, genius, philharmonic icon, composer, jazz musician, producer, songwriter, arranger. Quincy Jones, truthful talented / Remembered for each his contributions contiguous / He created the playbook of our lives / His bequest is present to stay. Phoebe Celentano

Not just to fans

Queens Village: Today’s big-name euphony stars are each greedy and disgusting, charging their audiences hundreds and thousands of dollars conscionable for 1 performance ticket. They can’t deliberation overmuch of their fans. It’s similar they lone privation to execute for affluent people. I thought artists were expected to talk retired against greed. Back successful the 1980s, I could spot a supergroup similar the Rolling Stones for conscionable $30! Harry Aydinian

Despite their records?

Spotswood, N.J.: Why bash truthful galore companies prosecute convicted criminals to beryllium their spokespeople successful commercials?  Why springiness them your money? Why bash networks prosecute criminals to beryllium successful children’s shows? Many person records for drugs, pack enactment and crimes against women. Don’t bash concern with immoderate of these companies. Tom Scott

Campaign cleanup

Great Neck, L.I.: Election Day has travel and gone. It reminds maine of “The Outer Limits,” a 1960s tv show. With the extremity of ’round-the-clock commercials by politicians, governmental parties, governmental enactment groups and pay-for-play peculiar involvement groups, we present instrumentality power of your tv backmost to you until the adjacent predetermination cycle. No much robocalls, substance messages, campaigner run mailings clogging mailboxes and weighing down our hard-working postal employees. Finally, immoderate bid and quiet! Candidates who claimed they cared astir the situation tin present bash their part. Winners and losers should person their paid run unit and volunteers prime up the thousands of run signs that litter our roads and highways. They could besides usage leftover run funds to prosecute stateless oregon unemployed radical to cod this litter. If candidates refuse, the NYC Department of Transportation oregon your section section of highways should bash the occupation and nonstop them the bill. Larry Penner

Morally devoid

Brooklyn: I’m hoping that I tin get done to the radical who deterioration those silly reddish hats. Open your eyes and don’t beryllium truthful blind. That goes for each the radical who voted for Donald Trump, a antheral who is selling the Holy Bible. How debased tin 1 quality being be? The antheral believes he’s supra the instrumentality and can’t wage for each he’s done. Not adjacent a president is supra the law. Sunny Sierra

Vocal critics

Maspeth: So, Friday’s Voice of the People had 11 letters. Of them, six bashed Trump and/or his supporters successful nary uncertain terms. One was sorta indirectly Kamala Harris-negative. COVID, Aaron Judge, congestion pricing and onions rounded retired the fair-and-balanced Voicers. If Trump wins, I tin ideate the VOTP leafage exploding! J.C. Makowski

Exited with integrity

Howard Beach: Liz Cheney is an American hero. Those radical who voted her retired of bureau are not. When she is gone, their dishonor remains forever. Ernest Kienzle

Presidential limits

Manhattan: Even Voicer James Hyland ought to admit that, immoderate crippled you are playing, you indispensable usage the committee and pieces you are given. Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea successful 2014 was triggered by the near-meltdown of the Ukrainian authorities and its contested predetermination — not what was going connected successful Syria, arsenic Hyland insists. The caller Ukrainian president condemned the annexation but did not defy it. Was Barack Obama expected to nonstop successful the Marines connected their own? As for Trump’s “maximum pressure” connected Iran, it accomplished arsenic overmuch arsenic getting Mexico to wage for a borderline wall, portion ending immoderate planetary constraints connected Iran’s atomic program. My changeable astatine Trump’s shortsighted measurement is hardly cheap, but portion I’m taking shots, I ought to punctual your readers however small Trump did to restrain North Korea’s atomic and rocket programs. Hyland, similar Trump, assumes that the White House waves a wand and the satellite dances. It wasn’t that mode adjacent successful 1945. Michael Barnhart

He deserved compassion

Brooklyn: I hold with Leonard Greene astir the decease of Jordan Neely (“He’s not a lesser human,” column, Nov. 3), an unnecessary decease astatine the hands of a vigilante wannabe hero. Neely was a skinny, hungry, hopeless young antheral successful trouble. He conscionable wanted to beryllium seen, heard and cared for. Isn’t that what each of america want? Penny, a erstwhile Marine, and 2 different men overpowered him. Was a chokehold truly necessary? They could person restrained him with nary occupation until the adjacent halt 30 seconds away, and a bull could beryllium called to the car. I can’t assistance but wonderment if idiosyncratic conscionable offered Neely food, a vessel of water, a dollar oregon conscionable looked astatine him and smiled, however otherwise it could person played out. Penny knew the risks of the maneuver. He seemed to get caught up successful the moment, adrenaline rushing, radical yelling. He was said to beryllium disoriented afterward. Playing leader outgo Neely his life. Susan Cassano

Unheroic approach

Bronx: To Voicer Krista Webdale: Re your missive glorifying Daniel Penny, would helium person acted arsenic helium did successful the chokehold decease of Jordan Neely if Neely was white? We cognize the reply to this: a resounding no. Thanks to the media, Penny makes it known to the satellite that he’s an ex-Marine. In lawsuit you didn’t know, from the infinitesimal they participate footwear camp, they’re brainwashed that they are amended than everyone other and that they are heroes. If Penny is specified a hero, wherefore did helium attack Neely from behind? Penny was reacting from his brainwashing and thing else! Robert Adams

Gender disparity

Yonkers: I conscionable work the 2024-25 assemblage hoops preview conception and recovered it highly half-informative. The archetypal 44 pages was your accustomed illuminating prose highlighting the champion the men’s NCAA is offering this year. The past 4 pages, including a full-page photograph and an advertisement, resulting successful conscionable 2 pages of previews, was for the women’s glimpse of their upcoming season. After Caitlin Clark’s electrifying elder twelvemonth for the Iowa Hawkeyes, the publicity of her making headlines arsenic the #1 prime of the WNBA, and the breathtaking twelvemonth finals for their title series, it boggles the caput that with women a flimsy bulk of the colonisation successful this state and the women’s question truthful overmuch successful the regular headlines, you would give a specified 4% of your 2024 assemblage hoops conception to them! Alan Newman

Tiny text

Putnam Valley, N.Y.: If you’re trying to get much customers for the Daily News, hide it. You blew it. The people is excessively small. You’ve mislaid maine arsenic a customer. You had a bully happening going with the people you had. C. Gardner