Errors and Omissions

All I Want for Christmas...

See the following interesting correction from today's Times.

Because of an editing error, an obituary yesterday about the Italian film star Alida Valli misstated the origin of "The Third Man," the movie in which she made her most famous Hollywood appearance. The story was initially a screenplay by Graham Greene, not a novel; he later adapted it as a novel. In addition, The obituary also misidentified the composer of the song "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth." It was Don Gardner, not Ms. Valli's husband Oscar de Mejo. (Go to Article)

How did they identify Oscar de Mejo (cited as a surrealist painter and composer) as the creator of a kitschy Christmas song?

Now that's surreal.

posted by Unknown @ 4/26/2006 11:19:00 AM