Amber Dowlilng

-- "CW ads raise eyebrows" on Sympatico / MSN TV Guide on August 21, 2009

The name attached to this article raised my eyebrows. Some quick clicks to related pages confirmed that the second L should be removed.

'Lost's Lilly doesn't want to be Angelina Jolie

-- "Lilly says "no" to being a big star" on Sympatico / MSN TV Guide on May 27, 2009

This is, how you say, awkward. The show is Lost, so the writer has put the title in single quotes. But Evangeline Lilly belongs to the cast of Lost, so a possessive apostrophe is needed. So it should really be 'Lost''s Lilly, but that is awkward, and probably also wrong. The best thing to do is what I've done - don't put the show's title in quotes; italicize it instead. Then it can be Lost's Lilly - not Losts Lilly which is equivalent to the erroneous 'Lost's Lilly.

manically poetic; referred to George W. Bush as a "that retarded cowboy fella"

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-- "Brand's identity" on Sympatico / MSN TV Guide on March 12, 2009

There was another manically error recently. A new phenomenon that deserves its own manically label? One more detected error, then yes. As for error número dos here, either omit a or omit that but for the love of fun, omit one of them.

Is gay is the new Gucci?; he was Molly's shoulder's to cry on

-- "Is gay is the new Gucci?" on Sympatico / MSN TV Guide on October 22, 2008

How in the name of fun does a title like that make it to view? I read the article to make sure I wasn't missing something, but in hindsight I should have known better because there's no way that title could be correct no matter what the article contains. And the writer probably wrote shoulder's because Chris Diamantopoulos pronounced the apostrophe.

oh-so-easy easy for us; and at the end, and I couldn't

-- "'Survivor': First impressions" on Sympatico / MSN TV Guide on February 13, 2009

I'm guessing it's easier to write about Survivor than to be on it, but is it twice as easy for the writers and editors to overlook the extra written words? To fix the first error, simply omit the second easy. To fix the second error, simply omit the comma and the second and.