Misspellings and missed hyphens in La-La Land
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010It’s a tough town, Los Angeles. Even for a famous and currently employed actor, it’s hard to catch a break in Hollywood.
Take Julia Louis-Dreyfus, for example. On Tuesday, May 4, CNN senior producer David Daniel walked by the newly embedded pink marble star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring Louis-Dreyfus and noticed that the actor’s name had two mistakes in it:
• The “o” in Louis was missing.
• The hyphen between Louis and Dreyfus was missing.
Daniel reported the gaffe to the Walk of Fame press rep.
Four hours later, Louis-Dreyfus arrived to receive her star — the 2,407th — and found a temporary chiseled fix of her name on the star.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame (photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianhaugen/3556803658/)
Her response?
“Right when you think you’ve made it, you get knocked down,” she joked. “It’s an ideal metaphor for how this business works.”
’Atta girl, JLD. Take it in stride.
The misspelled Hollywood star will be replaced with a corrected (and triple-proofread) version soon. Louis-Dreyfus asked for the botched star as a keepsake.
This isn’t the first time an actor’s name has been misspelled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1993, Dick Van Dyke’s star had to be remade.
The upshot of this spelling blunder? David Daniel can now add Hollywood proofreader to his already-impressive résumé.
Happy trails!
SAK
