{"id":121032,"date":"2016-08-29T18:56:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T22:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=121032"},"modified":"2016-08-29T19:01:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T23:01:43","slug":"r-i-p-gene-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=121032","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Gene Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tumblr_nvursllIkn1r6j0a7o1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_nvursllIkn1r6j0a7o1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121033\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI said what I needed to say <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sheilakathleen\/status\/770361266594541568\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Humphrey Bogart said that good acting was &#8220;6 feet back&#8221; in the eyes. Gene Wilder exemplified that. <\/p>\n<p>For example this: <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GNuoM5u3T8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Actors watch a moment like that and have the same reaction to it that a young violinist has to seeing Ihtzak Perlman play Carnegie Hall. You are in the same field as that genius, in name only. You&#8217;re not even in the same hemisphere with these people when it comes to talent. A moment like that one turns the actors I know into Salieris. That&#8217;s the breaks. Just be grateful that there are such artists who come down among us for a short while and grace us with their presence, their generosity, their gifts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said what I needed to say on Twitter. Humphrey Bogart said that good acting was &#8220;6 feet back&#8221; in the eyes. Gene Wilder exemplified that. For example this: Actors watch a moment like that and have the same reaction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=121032\">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":[7,23],"tags":[299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121032"}],"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=121032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121035,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121032\/revisions\/121035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}