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Sunday, 20 January 2008

Alice, Dexter, Gracie and I all watched Gone with the Wind yesterday. I had never seen it before and was thrilled by the beautiful Technicolor photography. I was, however, startled by what appears to be a typo in the opening crawl.

Producer David Selznick was famous for his attention to detail. When Judith Anderson was in Reno getting a divorce prior to making her screen acting debut in Rebecca, she got a message from Selznick: "Don't pluck your eyebrows". So how could this happen? Are there sentences which end correctly in two periods?

In other proofreading news, I was taking a look at one of my favorite episodes of Kojak today, "A Long Way from Times Square" — the plot is basically Kojak does Bad Day at Black Rock with some Red Harvest and The Avengers: "Murdersville" thrown in. (Captain McNeil even warns Kojak that the situation is like Bad Day at Black Rock. Kojak points out that he has two arms.)

Anyway, somebody spelled "Times Square" wrong.