Best Letter to the Editor I've seen in quite a while, courtesy Sunday's L.A. Times Calendar section: Call 'em F.O.B.s (Fans of Barry), Barryholics, even Straw-Barrys. Just don't... DON'T CALL 'EM FANILOWS!
We would like to thank you for the article on Barry Manilow, although we have to ask you to correct something the next time you do an interview with Manilow for publication. Please do not refer to his fans, nor his die-hard fans ("friends," as Barry calls us), as "Fanilows." We do not like the quotation and find it disrespecful to our true feelings for Barry.
This phrase was coined by a sitcom but this is not what Barry Manilow fans would call themselves and it certainly does not describe the level of dedication we have to Barry; it runs much deeper than being a "Fanilow" (ugh!), but we don't expect the press to understand that.
LANA HUGHES, JEANETTE HUGHES, LIL TROW AND SUE IRELAND
Wirral, England
Much like how some of Barry's "friends" -- Lana, Jeanette, Lil and Sue, we're looking at you -- don't quite understand the definition of a court-appointed restraining order.
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