I noticed last night that some people don’t have the elocution skills to say Howl properly. You have to really use your mouth and your tongue and get that “owl” sound going. You have to say “ow!” as in “damn, that hurts!” and then throw in a strong rolling “l.” Two or three people I spoke to prior to last night’s Eccles screening were calling it “Hal,” as in HAL 9000 computer. One of them was a publicist. I leaned forward and went “come again?” and he said, “You know…Hal? The movie you’re about to go see?”
