{"id":15887,"date":"2017-04-27T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15887"},"modified":"2017-04-27T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:28:11","slug":"obit-watch-april-27-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15887","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: April 27, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/26\/movies\/jonathan-demme-dead-movie-director-oscar-winner.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Demme<\/a> passed away yesterday. Which is a damn shame, because I wanted to ask him why he thought it was a good idea to remake \u201cCharade&#8221; and \u201cThe Manchurian Candidate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But I suppose I have to give him a pass for those. <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2p7s4oQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Silence of the Lambs&#8221;<\/a> is a faithful adaptation of the book, and a great movie it its own right.<\/p>\n<p>And not that he ever needed it, but he would have earned a lifetime pass from me for <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2oPpiSV\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Stop Making Sense&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2qjbfVK\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Swimming To Cambodia&#8221;<\/a> was a swell movie, too.<\/p>\n<p>And I actually saw <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2oPqqG2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Swing Shift&#8221;<\/a> when it was in theaters, but I was unaware of the whole editing controversy, and really don&#8217;t remember the movie well at this distance. It might be worth a re-watch, but I think I want to see <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2p7Ni61\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Melvin and Howard&#8221;<\/a> and &#8220;Handle With Care&#8221;\/&#8221;Citizens Band&#8221; first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Demme passed away yesterday. Which is a damn shame, because I wanted to ask him why he thought it was a good idea to remake \u201cCharade&#8221; and \u201cThe Manchurian Candidate\u201d. But I suppose I have to give him a pass for those. &#8220;The Silence of the Lambs&#8221; is a faithful adaptation of the book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887","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=15887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15889,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions\/15889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}