Winner of Second Place Behind Slate/Travoltified: The LA Times

Bravo, LA Times editors. Bravo!

In today’s print editions, for a Calendar section article by David Ng and Oliver Gettell about the endlessly fascinating John Travolta/Adele Dazeem flub, the paper went with the following headline:

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This great work led us to check what a famous line from A Star is Born might have sounded like if the wife of fading matinee idol Norman Maine had somehow been able to Travoltify his name. From the Shrine Auditorium stage in the 1954 version starring James Mason and Judy Garland, the latter would have proudly proclaimed: “Hello everybody.

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