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    Benjamin Button's Bad Grammar

    Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 1:09 PM | By Meghan O'Rourke
    Like Jessica, I can't see the Oscars as much more than  Hollywood giving itself a big old sloppy wet kiss on national TV. But I thought there was  a high moment and a low moment worth mentioning. The first came when Heath Ledger's family accepting his Oscar for best supporting actor. It was sad but, well real -- this was a family up there, a crew in a whole other sense, and the award had a meaning for them that went deep. The low moment came when, during the award for best adapted screenplay, they flashed up a section of the script for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. And it had a huge grammatical mistake! As I recall--and I could be wrong--it said something about an "inept silence"; the word they meant, presumably, was "awkward."
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