{"id":143971,"date":"2025-07-21T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=143971"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:50:26","slug":"happy-birthday-edward-herrmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=143971","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Edward Herrmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primary_Ed_H2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primary_Ed_H2.jpg\" alt=\"primary_Ed_H2\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primary_Ed_H2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primary_Ed_H2-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primary_Ed_H2-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primary_Ed_H2-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWith a career as long and diverse as Edward Herrmann&#8217;s there is much to discuss. When he died, I wrote a piece for Ebert, focusing on just one moment in Warren Beatty&#8217;s <i>Reds<\/i>, a moment that (in its small way) helps make the whole thing possible. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the job of a character actor. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/balder-and-dash\/just-one-line-edward-herrman-1943-2014\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Just one line: Edward Herrmann, 1943-2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<small><em>Thank you so much for stopping by. If you like what I do, and if you feel inclined to support my work, here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venmo.com\/u\/Sheila-OMalley-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my Venmo account<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve launched a Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Variations 2.0<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like to subscribe.<\/em> <\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a career as long and diverse as Edward Herrmann&#8217;s there is much to discuss. When he died, I wrote a piece for Ebert, focusing on just one moment in Warren Beatty&#8217;s Reds, a moment that (in its small way) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=143971\">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":[7,4,39],"tags":[1875,1277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143971"}],"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=143971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187711,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143971\/revisions\/187711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}