{"id":34725,"date":"2011-03-04T22:23:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T03:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=34725"},"modified":"2011-03-04T23:03:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T04:03:17","slug":"everything-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=34725","title":{"rendered":"Everything Old Is New Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OVasewV7OpA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There may be a clearer expression of pure joy and love (mixed with sadness and failure) in cinema, but this is IT, for me.  A perfect expression of a perfect moment.  Every shot, every gesture, every look, every line, every cut, the music itself &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Joy.  Expressed.  Purely.  <\/p>\n<p>Cinema is one of the low arts. Meaning it is geared to appeal to ALL, not just the FEW.  It is popular in nature.  I am not against that.  As a matter of fact, I think that is one of its greatest assets. Shakespeare wrote for the groundlings as well as the aristocrats in the balcony.  Bob Fosse came from a burlesque background.  And it is THIS kind of thing, entertainment-driven and emotionally-based, complex, and yet ultimately so so simple, that makes show business go round, that makes it something that we not only enjoy, but <em>need<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>All I know is, I get some kind of catharsis (in the classical sense of the word) each and every time I watch that clip, and that has been true for me since I first saw it at age 15.  That is profound.  Divine even.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be a clearer expression of pure joy and love (mixed with sadness and failure) in cinema, but this is IT, for me. A perfect expression of a perfect moment. Every shot, every gesture, every look, every line, every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=34725\">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\/34725"}],"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=34725"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34731,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34725\/revisions\/34731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}