{"id":28520,"date":"2010-10-15T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=28520"},"modified":"2010-10-15T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T15:02:21","slug":"ladies-and-gentlemen-sir-john-falstaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=28520","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ladies and Gentlemen, Sir John Falstaff&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EEdoGsxE4lw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EEdoGsxE4lw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to imagine anything like this ever being on television today, let alone a popular show like <i>The Dean Martin Show<\/i>, aimed at a broad audience.   The &#8220;skit&#8221; is languorous, it takes its time, it is self-conscious in a somewhat hokey way (not a bad thing, theatre often has those qualities), and honest in the same way.  It has a sense of humor about itself, and it&#8217;s also earnest and serious.<em> Let&#8217;s talk about Shakespeare, television audience, and let us just assume that we all have the same frames of reference, because it is important to continue to talk about characters like Falstaff, to keep our hearts and our history alive<\/em>.  It is connected to a time not that long past, of vaudeville and stock companies, and yet also so far away that it might as well be Middle Earth.  It&#8217;s one of my favorite clips from the Dean Martin Show.  It makes me laugh, and I also feel mournful watching it, conscious of a deep soul ache.  Part of the reason for that is that I am given the space and the time to even <i>have<\/i> that response.  The producers do not rush me, they do not rush Orson.  They let him &#8220;do his thing&#8221;, and whatever we feel, watching it, we feel.  We&#8217;re just lucky to still have the clip, to be able to watch it again and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is difficult to imagine anything like this ever being on television today, let alone a popular show like The Dean Martin Show, aimed at a broad audience. The &#8220;skit&#8221; is languorous, it takes its time, it is self-conscious in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=28520\">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":[7,31],"tags":[125,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520"}],"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=28520"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28529,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520\/revisions\/28529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}