{"id":108189,"date":"2015-10-16T07:41:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T11:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108189"},"modified":"2015-10-16T07:41:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T11:41:33","slug":"a-starchy-version-of-cinderella-was-shooting-at-pinewood-at-the-same-time-we-were-there-its-makers-constantly-complained-that-our-mini-gangsters-were-running-up-and-down-the-corridors-terrorising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108189","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A starchy version of Cinderella was shooting at Pinewood at the same time we were there. Its makers constantly complained that our mini-gangsters were running up and down the corridors, terrorising the Cinderella cast in their crinolines and powdered wigs.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1831-b-bugsy-malone.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1831-b-bugsy-malone.jpg\" alt=\"1831-b-bugsy-malone\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1831-b-bugsy-malone.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1831-b-bugsy-malone-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1831-b-bugsy-malone-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1831-b-bugsy-malone-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not sure if I can sufficiently describe how much the movie <i>Bugsy Malone<\/i> meant to me when I was a child. I didn&#8217;t see it in the theatre. It was playing on some local TV channel, and I watched the movie on the small fuzzy-image black-and-white television in the den downstairs. I couldn&#8217;t believe my eyes. I was around the age of all of the kids in it. I wanted to be in it. I wanted to live in it. I tried to make my hair have a &#8220;spit curl&#8221; like Jodie Foster&#8217;s. It helped launch an interest in the era of the 1920s, the Jazz Age, speakeasies, gun molls. I was 11. <\/p>\n<p>So how happy am I to see this piece in The Guardian, with quotes from director Alan Parker and star Scott Baio: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2015\/oct\/13\/how-we-made-bugsy-malone-jodie-foster-scott-baio-alan-parker\" target=\"blank\">How We Made Bugsy Malone.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I can sufficiently describe how much the movie Bugsy Malone meant to me when I was a child. I didn&#8217;t see it in the theatre. It was playing on some local TV channel, and I watched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108191,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108189\/revisions\/108191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}