{"id":11434,"date":"2013-12-16T08:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11434"},"modified":"2013-12-16T16:44:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:44:05","slug":"obit-watch-december-16-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11434","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: December 16, 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, yesterday was a rough day for actors and actresses. I decided to hold off until this morning on posting obits, figuring that would give the various papers of record some time to get their thoughts and acts together.<\/p>\n<p>Peter O\u2019Toole: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/16\/movies\/peter-otoole-lawrence-of-arabia-is-dead-at-81.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=all\">NYT<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-peter-otoole-20131216,0,6437640,full.story\">LAT<\/a><\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-et-mn-otoole-appreciation-20131216,0,3543338,full.story#axzz2neJCN3aa\">Kenneth Turan appreciation<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-peter-otoole-106520\">AV Club<\/a><\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=11966\">Lawrence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Noted actress Joan Fontaine also passed away yesterday. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/16\/arts\/joan-fontaine-who-won-an-oscar-for-hitchcocks-suspicion-dies-at-96.html?adxnnl=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;adxnnlx=1387205220-fM04d9MAbqKwdFl5cxC5Yg\">NYT<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-joan-fontaine-20131216,0,2864206,full.story\">LAT<\/a>.<\/strong> (ETA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-joan-fontaine-106525\">AV Club<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, Tom Laughlin, of &#8220;Billy Jack&#8221; fame. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-tom-laughlin-20131216,0,6177630.story#axzz2neLftsQs\">LAT<\/a><\/strong>. (ETA: Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-tom-laughlin-of-billy-jack-106524\">AV Club<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-tom-laughlin-20131216,0,6177630.story#axzz2neLftsQs\">Over the years, critics assailed Laughlin&#8217;s performances. Leonard Maltin called him &#8220;the only actor intense enough to risk a hernia from reading lines.&#8221; The New Yorker&#8217;s Pauline Kael called &#8220;The Trial of Billy Jack&#8221; extraordinary \u2014 that is, &#8220;the most extraordinary display of sanctimonious self-aggrandizement the screen has ever known.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, Ms. Kael wrote that line long before Steven Seagal and &#8220;On Deadly Ground&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, yesterday was a rough day for actors and actresses. I decided to hold off until this morning on posting obits, figuring that would give the various papers of record some time to get their thoughts and acts together. Peter O\u2019Toole: NYT. LAT. Kenneth Turan appreciation. AV Club. Lawrence. Noted actress Joan Fontaine also passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-movies","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11439,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11434\/revisions\/11439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}