{"id":21973,"date":"2021-01-10T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=21973"},"modified":"2021-01-10T12:53:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:53:24","slug":"obit-watch-january-10-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=21973","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 10, 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Apted<\/a>. Yeah, yeah, “7 Up” and the follow-on movies, but he had an interesting career<\/a> outside of that: “Coal Miner’s Daughter”, “The World Is Not Enough”, “Gorillas In the Mist”, “Gorky Park”…<\/p>\n

John Richardson<\/a> (by way of LP). Credits include<\/a> “She”, “One Million Years B.C.”, and “Frankenstein ’80”.<\/p>\n

Lawrence<\/a> also sent over an obit from Mark Steyn’s website for Kathy Shaidle<\/a>, their movie writer. I don’t read Mark Steyn regularly, and I wasn’t familiar with Ms. Shaidle, but from the obit, she sounds like someone I would have enjoyed knowing.<\/p>\n

In a too short life, Kathy wrote in almost every form: She is the only writer I know who was both a respected poet nominated for major prizes and the “Ed Anger” columnist of The Weekly World News.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

\nI posted this on Facebook last year:<\/a><\/p>\n

I get over a thousand TV channels if you count my Roku. I have a Criterion Channel subscription, a bunch of DVDs still in their shrink wrap, and a pile of ‘to read’ books.<\/a><\/p>\n

So of course because it’s on TCM (again), what I’m doing is watching All About Eve for probably the thirtieth time. #Loser.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(We watched “All About Eve” recently. It was the first time I’d seen it: it is a seriously great movie.)<\/p>\n

Even back then, I resented being ordered around by the government.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Apted. Yeah, yeah, “7 Up” and the follow-on movies, but he had an interesting career outside of that: “Coal Miner’s Daughter”, “The World Is Not Enough”, “Gorillas In the Mist”, “Gorky Park”… John Richardson (by way of LP). Credits include “She”, “One Million Years B.C.”, and “Frankenstein ’80”. Lawrence also sent over an obit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973","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=21973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21976,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973\/revisions\/21976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}