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I tend to send my copy in on deadline, which by New Yorker standards
is tacky. It has to go through three or four proofs. The fact-checkers
proof; the grammarians proof. And it is amazing. Someone does go to
see the film, to make sure I'm not lying. If I'm reviewing a Tim
Burton film and I say that Ewan McGregor's wearing a bright blue
shirt, they'll say to me, 'It's more like bright turquoise'. But you
should get it right, especially if you're going to have some fun with
it. Otherwise it's cheating. The New Yorker is the only place in the
world where you can pull a piece to change a comma to a semi-colon.
It's a haven for the pedant. I love it.

Anthony Lane
		   http://arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/12/14/bolane.xml

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