5/22/2003

Nitpickery.

Even the great James Lileks is not immune to inadvertent transpositions:
Recall that classic line from the classic Bogey movie “The Maltese Falcon,” spoken classically by Bogie to Elijah Wood: the cheaper the gunsel, the gaudier the patter.
Of course that would be Elisha Cook, Jr., not Elijah Wood. The mental image of Bogart exchanging hardboiled cracks with a hobbit is hilarious, though.

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