Thursday, May 28, 2009

'Lost's Lilly doesn't want to be Angelina Jolie

-- "Lilly says "no" to being a big star" on Sympatico / MSN TV Guide on May 27, 2009

This is, how you say, awkward. The show is Lost, so the writer has put the title in single quotes. But Evangeline Lilly belongs to the cast of Lost, so a possessive apostrophe is needed. So it should really be 'Lost''s Lilly, but that is awkward, and probably also wrong. The best thing to do is what I've done - don't put the show's title in quotes; italicize it instead. Then it can be Lost's Lilly - not Losts Lilly which is equivalent to the erroneous 'Lost's Lilly.

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