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We're not afraid to nitpick ourselves when the occasion arrives, and, whilst visiting our local book merchant today (one of many errands we were running, along with visiting our local affineur to see what was ripening in his cheese cave; see "The Food Snob's Dictionary" in last December's Vanity Fair to learn what an affineur is), we came across a new book called Nudie: The Rodeo Tailor, that alerted us to a small mistake--nothing that would rouse Gram Parsons from the Spangled Beyond, but worth correcting.

The book, a lavish, mostly pictorial enterprise compiled by Mary Lynn Cabrall and Jamie Lee Nudie (granddaughter of the original Nudie), informs us that Nudie's original name, bestowed upon him when he was born in Kiev in 1902, is Nuta Kotlyarenko--not, as we have it in our entry on Nudie's Rodeo Tailors [p. 85], Nudka Cohn. Nuta Kotlyarenko refashioned himself as Nudie Cohn upon setting up shop in Hollywood, so we had it half right, but why this Russian-Jewish cowboy didn't go all the way and rename himself something even more American-sounding--say, Ralph Lauren--is beyond us.