Nenette NYT Critics' Pick

A scene from “Nénette,” a film about an orangutan at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
A Meditation on Captivity, Featuring an Orangutan
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: December 21, 2010

A child’s voice whispers “Nénette!,” and immediately we are in the patient and curious world of the French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert. Best known in the United States for “To Be and to Have” — his captivating 2002 portrait of a rural schoolteacher — Mr. Philibert has switched his gaze to a primate with rather less agency: a 40-year-old female orangutan in the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. More

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Trials and Tribulations of a Pedant

Magentamn posted about the Targhetto support of CryptoNazis. I noticed that they misspelled the name of Mn's most famous airhead representative, Michele Bachmann by adding an extra "L" to her first name. First I wrote the author of the piece and included my personal jingle, "That's Michele -- one "L" short of a full load -- Bachmann -- with an extra "N" for extra nuttiness." I received a nice, curt response thanking me and telling me it had been fixed. Then when the MinnPost email arrived linking to the article, I went and checked. Lo, it had not been fixed. So, I emailed the editor, "That's Michele -- one "L" short of a full load -- Bachmann -- with an extra "N" for extra nuttiness." Again, I received a curt response, mentioning firing the proof-reader, and mentioning that it had been fixed. I checked. It has been fixed. I should add, that I do not have any problem with anybody at all calling Michele Bachmann anything at all, but please spell her name right. After all, I'm not from her district. Article

And a day or two before that, I received a nice email from the Boskone website thanking me for pointing out that "babybsitting" was an err, unusually fannish spelling. Most of us can get by with one less "B."

So far today, I've not found anything wrong on the internets, but I'm still looking.