{"id":180,"date":"2008-07-29T20:18:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T01:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/wp\/?p=180"},"modified":"2016-03-15T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:06:02","slug":"thats-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/thats-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Entertainment&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/hitchcock.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Malibu penny postcard\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/hitchcock.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Alfred Hitchcock\" title=\"Alfred Hitchcock\" width=\"280\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Saw<i> Mongol<\/i>, will see the <i>Dark Knight<\/i>. I luved Christian Bale in <i>American Psycho<\/i>!!! So funny.<\/p>\n<p>Stayed in &amp; watched TV. WOW! On TCM, old fave, <i>Sweet Smell of Success<\/i> (1957), then <i> Rope<\/i> (1948) from Hitchcock. Had never seen it. Pyrotechnic filmmaking, it&#8217;s made w\/out cuts. So pervy &amp; disturbing, particularly for the time. HITCHCOCK WAS OUT THERE&#8230; He did the 1st American picture about a serial killer, <i>Shadow of a Doubt<\/i>, several years earlier.<i> Rope<\/i> is about a thrill-killing. The perps are a rich male couple who think they are superior. Leopold &amp; Loeb-types. Saw<i> Frenzy<\/i> (1972) for the 1st time in years&#8230;it&#8217;s very shocking too.  (Hitch was wild. I heard on some show that he wanted to call <i>North By Northwest<\/i>, the picture w\/ scenes at Mt. Rushmore, <i>The Man In Lincoln&#8217;s Nose<\/i>.)  Then I saw <i>High Fidelity<\/i>&#8230;liked it, but not brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Looked at a documentary on the Ramones. I get the Sex Pistols&#8211;but not them!!! The music is so bad &amp; they&#8217;re so stupid. JL walked in &amp; said,&#8221;Spare me!&#8221; So I did. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw Mongol, will see the Dark Knight. I luved Christian Bale in American Psycho!!! So funny. Stayed in &amp; watched TV. WOW! On TCM, old fave, Sweet Smell of Success (1957), then Rope (1948) from Hitchcock. Had never seen it. Pyrotechnic filmmaking, it&#8217;s made w\/out cuts. So pervy &amp; disturbing, particularly for the time. HITCHCOCK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[11379,11834,8610,2017,9443],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-fashion","category-thoughts","tag-alfred-hitchcock","tag-christian-bale","tag-sex-pistols","tag-tcm","tag-tv-2","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}