A Film Producer's Change Of Mind

Letters
Entertainment Weekly
1675 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
August 10, 1994

Dear Editor:

Could the real reason Forrest Gump producer Steve Starkey took out the scene involving Gump and Martin Luther King ("News & Notes, EW #233, July 29) be that he feared a negative reaction from the African-American community over the computer-manipulated image of King in a Hollywood film?

Sincerely yours,
Charles Michael Smith

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