Let’s just say that you don’t need to be an expert on movies or writing to write about movies. You can misspell David O. Russell’s name and skip the apostrophe in “The King’s Speech” and still be employed by Yahoo! Movies:
Heck, that’s no worse than writing about the Jewish-Irish producer David O’Selznick.
November 17, 2012 at 9:43 pm
David isn’t Irish?
(That paragraph demonstrates the law of the conservation of apostrophes.)
November 18, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Ah, yes. You are correct. There is a finite number of punctuation characters in the universe and we must not squander them!