Bono, who worked with Ms. Taymor to develop “Spider-Man” for several years and had once called her “my close friend,” wrote an e-mail last Jan. 7 criticizing her for “shooting ideas down before taking time to understand them,” according to the producers’ lawsuit. (Bono wrote the score of the musical with his band mate the Edge.)Isn't it "The Edge"? Or, perhaps, "Edge"? In the pleadings (a rollicking read), the producers' attorneys (from K&E) mostly use the former. Referring to him as "the Edge" just seems the wrong.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
PLAY THE BLUES: An article in Wednesday's NYT on the Spider-Man producers' countersuit against original director Julie Taymor occasions a return to the ALOTT5MA Style Desk:
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I believe his name is "the Edge," not "Edge.". I have no basis for that, beyond personal understanding.
ReplyDeleteBono refers to him just as "Edge," no "the," as in "okay, Edge, play the blues." Though, the well-known mistake in that quote may render Bono an unreliable source.
ReplyDeleteThough, counterpoint, if you were to consider the name as comparable to a title ("the King"; "the Count"; "the Situation"), you would include the "the" in lower case when describing him as a third party but not when addressing him. "Excuse me, Count, but the King would like a word with you concerning the Situation."
ReplyDelete<span>And shouldn't it be Mr. Edge or Mr. The Edge? </span>
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<span>Going to the source, I checked the U2 website and the preference there seems to be for just "</span>Edge<span>." </span>
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<span>The press release and other materials for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark all seem to refer to him as "The Edge" (for instance, </span>here<span>). </span>
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<span>Related, I'd like to thank the NYT for properly spelling "Spider-Man." As the lead guy on the </span><span>ALOTT5MA Peter Parker/Ben Reilly/Kain/Miles Morales/Miguel O'Hara desk, few things drive me more to distraction than seeing a news organization go all DC on the name and spell it "Spiderman."</span>
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That's Rattle & Hum era U2; pre-Joshua Tree, I seem to recall the Sunday Bloody Sunday solos introduced with "The Edge, HOO!"
ReplyDeleteI think you'd have to go with The Situation there, to distinguish him from some occurrence you're euphemistically referring to as the Situation.
ReplyDeleteIn his 2011 letter to the Baltimore Sun protesting that he did, in fact, pay US taxes, he refers to himself as The Edge.
ReplyDeleteBut that's introducing him, not addressing him.
ReplyDeleteI believe Edge refers to WWE Hall of Fame inductee Adam Copeland's in-ring persona. "The Edge" refers to "that other recognizable guy in U2."
ReplyDeleteSurely you can guess my age by the fact I missed the U2 peak and that I hit the WWE Attitude era peak.
The retired WWE superstar is unquestionably Edge. We have never heard "The Edge and Christian" or "Christian and the Edge."
ReplyDeleteAs you would, if you were the Count or the King or the Chief. And if you were putting it in a signature line, you would capitalize. Still doesn't disprove the rule: third person, use the definite article, definite article is not part of the proper noun; second person, drop the definite article.
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