{"id":6212,"date":"2012-01-26T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2012-01-26T08:09:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T14:09:44","slug":"obit-watch-january-26-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6212","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 26, 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary actor Nicol Williamson passed away on December 16. However, his death was apparently not reported until yesterday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/26\/theater\/nicol-williamson-a-mercurial-actor-is-dead-at-75.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=all\">&#8230;during the Broadway run of Paul Rudnick\u2019s 1991 comedy, \u201cI Hate Hamlet,\u201d in which he played the ghost of John Barrymore, he criticized the play in interviews, audibly offered coaching to his fellow actors onstage, and finally, during a staged swordfight, ignored the choreography and smacked the actor Evan Handler with the flat blade of the sword, prompting Mr. Handler to leave the stage and resign. <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/26\/theater\/nicol-williamson-a-mercurial-actor-is-dead-at-75.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=all\">A young actress who shared the stage with him in 1965 and who spoke to The New York Times said of him: \u201cDrinking, fighting and wenching \u2014 God, he\u2019s fabulous!\u201d <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(In addition to playing Hamlet and Macbeth, he was also Sherlock Holmes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075194\/\">&#8220;The Seven-Per-Cent Solution&#8221;<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary actor Nicol Williamson passed away on December 16. However, his death was apparently not reported until yesterday. &#8230;during the Broadway run of Paul Rudnick\u2019s 1991 comedy, \u201cI Hate Hamlet,\u201d in which he played the ghost of John Barrymore, he criticized the play in interviews, audibly offered coaching to his fellow actors onstage, and finally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,16,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-movies","category-obits","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212","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=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}