The Alessandra Stanley Watch: Welcome to 2006!
We're so ashamed we missed this on Wednesday, especially because it was such a momentous event. Only 11 days into 2006, Alessandra Stanley clocked her first Times correction of the year:
A television review on Monday about the new ABC sitcom "Emily's Reasons Why Not" misspelled the surname of the heroine of the novel "Vanity Fair," a role cited as the type of role in which Heather Graham, the star of the sitcom, might be funny. She is Becky Sharp, not Sharpe.
If she keeps up the one-correction-every-11-days frequency, La Stanley is on track to hit 33 for the year, handily beating the 20 correx she notched in 2005.
Or, looked at differently: Through Wednesday, she had one correction on five TV reviews — a 20 percent corrections rate, which nicely tops the record-setting 15 percent rate she maintained through 2005.
Will she beat last year's totals? Stay tuned...
Corrections: January 11 [NYT]
Earlier: The Alessandra Stanley Watch: When Victorian Literature Meets a Sitcom