Tabs on Writing

I came across an interesting, but rather common misspelling of a Super Bowl city – Pittsburgh – this past week in an article in the local paper. William Pitt the Elder, 18th century British statesman and Prime Minister after whom the city is named (even though he never set foot in the New World), would be [...]

Last weekend I had the wonderful experience of watching a splendid film about a man transforming himself into the role of a king. Colin Firth, portraying the soon-to-be King George VI in The King’s Speech, and Geoffrey Rush, an Australian-born Shakespearean actor, as his interlocutor and speech therapist, gave Academy Award-deserving performances.  Rush’s character,  Lionel Logue, [...]