Patrick Goldstein, in his Big Picture LAT blog, has been writing about Jeffrey Katzenberg’s 3-D boosterism and moderating an ongoing enthusiastic debate on the subject. This morning he wondered aloud why Katzenberg hadn’t been part of it:

As it turns out, he actually did write a response that his people sent along to my editors late last week. But alas, the response came with a series of non-negotiable demands, notably that The Times must run his response on the front page of the Calendar section, above the fold–i.e., in the same prominent position that my column originally ran. Although my editors assured him that no one, no matter how much of a Hollywood big shot, had ever dictated that their letter be run on the front page–in other words, not even Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey’s old partner Steven Spielberg or the late Charlton Heston, who set the modern record for most letters-to-the-editor by a famous actor–Jeffrey took his marbles and went home.

The big question: What happens if David Geffen owns the paper?