{"id":3779,"date":"2005-10-26T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:13:40","slug":"fasten-your-seatbelts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fasten your seatbelts&#8221; &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/abillings\/123383.html\">A post about <i>All About Eve<\/i><\/a> that you do not want to miss.   I love it because it makes me see the film in a new way &#8230; it makes me want to see it again.  That &#8220;fasten your seatbelts&#8221; line is so imitated &#8211; and so distorted through all the imitations &#8211; that when I first saw the film I was amazed at how REAL the moment actually is.  The way she says it is not at ALL like all the imitations!  I laughed with Mitchell about this once, and said, &#8220;The queens have overtaken that line!!  It&#8217;s the queens&#8217; fault!&#8221;  The moment in the film is actually very real &#8211; although heightened, of course &#8211; but certainly not the bitchy campy flouncing monstrosity that I was expecting!!!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve seen the movie, and you are interested in an encyclopedic take on it, go and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/abillings\/123383.html\">read Alex&#8217;s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post about All About Eve that you do not want to miss. I love it because it makes me see the film in a new way &#8230; it makes me want to see it again. That &#8220;fasten your seatbelts&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779"}],"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=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19635,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/19635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}