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Corrections (roundup for last 3 issues).


In an article on the movie Rebecca in the July-Aug. 07 issue (p. 45), the Cornwall estate of Maxim de Winter was incorrectly given as "Manderlay." The name is actually "Manderley."

In the May-June 07 issue, in a review of a book about artist David Wojnarowicz, the following incomplete sentence appears: "Wojnarowicz died at age of before realizing his full potential." The artist died at the age of 37.

Rhonda Garelick, the author of an article titled "Flagging: Propelled by Momentum" in the May-June 07 issue, submitted the following correction: "Quoted remarks by psychoanalyst Daniel Sibony refer to the general phenomenon of possessional dance involving objects, but not specifically to the art of flag dancing."

In a review of William Mann's biography of Katharine Hepburn in the May-June 07 issue (p. 34), it was incorrectly stated that the actress won her first Academy Award for 1932's A Bill of Divorcement A Bill of Divorcement is a British play written by Clemence Dane that debuted in 1921 in London. Dane wrote it as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman divorcing her husband. . In fact, her first Oscar was for Morning Glory morning glory, common name for members of the Convolvulaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and small trees (many of them climbing forms) inhabiting warm regions, especially the tropics of America and Asia. The family is characterized by milky sap.  in 1933.

Following a BTW "By the way." See digispeak.

(chat) BTW - By the way.
 item about Jay Bakker's hip evangelical ministry in the March-April 07 issue, we received the following correction: "I noticed in the latest issue that you lay claim to Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's son. He isn't gay, he's just very gay friendly. HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO)
A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber.

Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy
 has been running a series about his career as a punk evangelist, and it's quite clear he's married and very much into his punk, pierced, and tattooed wife."

Mea culpa me·a cul·pa  
n.
An acknowledgment of a personal error or fault.



[Latin me culp
! More than one writer pointed out that the editor's comparison of Thomas Cannon's 18th-century flight to France to escape persecution with that of Oscar Wilde was a careless one (July-Aug. 07 issue). Rest assured, the editor is well aware of Wilde's two trials and two years of hard labor HARD LABOR, punishment. In those states where the penitentiary system has been adopted, convicts who are to be imprisoned, as part of their punishment, are sentenced to perform hard labor.  in Reading Gaol The old English word for jail.


GAOL. A prison or building designated by law or used by the sheriff, for the confinement or detention of those, whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody.
 before his weary flight to Paris; he must have been thinking more broadly of the historical tendency of persecuted English homos to cross the Channel and take refuge in France at some point in their ordeal.
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Publication:The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Article Type:Correction notice
Date:Sep 1, 2007
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