Friday's Letters (August 11, 2006) Queen Mary   Re "Spruce Goose dome may get `Laserium"': It's great news that the trustee of QSDI, Howard Ehrenberg, has signed a lease to bring the "Cyberdome Laserium" to the Queen Mary geodesic dome. But your article states that Queen Mary Seaport Development, Inc. "leases and runs the Queen Mary," and that is not completely accurate. There is another entity aboard that actually runs the Queen Mary. That is the nonprofit RMS Foundation, which is a separate company that operates the events taking place on the ship. Joseph Prevratil is CEO of the RMS Foundation, which is concerned with all areas of food and beverages, catering, hotel sales, attractions and facilities. You could say that he is the one who actually runs the ship. The RMS Foundation is not in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Nate Brightman Long Beach   Tuesday's Letters (August 15, 2006) Queen Mary   Nate Brightman, perennial apologist for the inept operations of that dysfunctional mess called the Queen Mary, says the RMS Foundation, which amazingly is willing to admit it runs the Queen Mary, is a non-profit. That is not completely accurate. Since that woeful day in December, 1967, when the floating bottle of red ink arrived, virtually every operation involving the Queen Mary has been "non-profit," not just RMS. It's time for everyone to come to their senses. Apologists for the Queen Mary won't make it a viable economic enterprise any more than apologists for the Lakers will make them a better basketball team. Bite the bullet, tow the thing across the harbor, tie it up near the Convention Center and Shoreline Village, and they'll have to beat the crowds back with a stick. Don't worry about the cruise ship folks, few of them tour the Queen Mary anyway because of the cruise ships' late afternoon departure times. That mind-numbing rescue plan to use cruise ship passengers as customers for the QM businesses was as well-thought-out as putting a Wal-Mart in our "cosmopolitan" downtown shopping center. Tom Lockhart Long Beach   Wednesday's Letters (August 16, 2006) Queen Mary   Re "Queen Mary": Nate Brightman's letter praised yet another empty promise of development around the Queen Mary, although it is actually Queen's Seaport Development, Inc. in Chapter 11, and not the RMS Foundation. But does it even matter? Queen Mary operator Joseph F. Prevratil's many business entities are indeed difficult to keep track of, and certainly he uses this to his advantage. The losers in all the contrived confusion are the taxpayers, the true owners of the Queen Mary. Who cares what short-lived victories are gleaned by business manipulations of words and funds? Is there anyone with clout and character left to tell the truth about what has been done to Long Beach's greatest attraction? Diane Rush Anaheim