Philadelphia Inquirer writer Karen Heller ought to be a little bit more careful doling out her tsk-tsks.

In "'Mrs. Harris,' Prescription for Wit Well-filled,", her review of Mrs. Harris, the HBO movie, which premiered last night, about the shooting of the so-called Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Dr. Herman Tarnower, by his girlfriend, Jean Harris, Heller picks a few nits with the production, presenting, in her own words, "a few quibbles," including this one, of local interest:

In the 1960s, Harris was head of Springside School's middle school in Chestnut Hill, though it's identified here as Springside Academy.

Oh my, such a horrible error!

And yet that comes just three paragraphs after Heller herself wrote (tortured syntax in original):

Upon learning that Tarnower had replaced her with Lynne Tryforos in his will, Harris drove five hours from Virginia to Scarsdale with a pistol in her handbag.

Sorry, Karen, wrong!

On that fateful night Miss Harris drove not to Scarsdale, N.Y., the village in which Dr. Tarnower's medical practice was located, but instead to Purchase, N.Y., where the physician lived and where the shooting actually occurred.

You can look it up.

Heller could have looked it up.

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