{"id":4078,"date":"2005-12-23T08:56:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T13:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2013-02-12T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T20:45:04","slug":"christmas-movie-tribute-meet-me-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4078","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Movie Tribute:  &#8220;Meet me in St. Louis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/abillings\/147828.html\">Here is Alex&#8217;s tribute to &#8220;Meet Me in St. Louis&#8221;.<\/a>  Believe it or not &#8211; I came to this film late.  I had never seen it and then I was in college, and I became friends with Mitchell, and I realized that seeing (and loving) <i>Meet Me in St. Louis<\/i> was pretty much a prerequisite to being in any kind of relationship with him.  We could not move forward until I had been &#8220;caught up&#8221;.  We saw it together.  He pointed out all the things he loved &#8211; moments he loved &#8211; little acting moments (Judy tasting the soup, for example) &#8211; He initiated me into the beautiful world that is this movie.  It&#8217;s like a Currier and Ives world on celluloid.  You want to step into that old turn of the century atmosphere &#8211; it&#8217;s so REAL.  Every shot is a mini-masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t do the film justice &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/abillings\/147828.html\"> just go read Alex&#8217;s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Astor is, indeed, fantastic.  I love her always &#8211; but I love her in this film particularly.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell and I love the moment in that movie when Tootie, the young morbidly obsessed child, lies in bed, moaning (and exaggerating):  &#8220;He tried to kill me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uhm &#8230; no, Tootie.  He did not, in fact, &#8220;try to kill&#8221; you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Alex&#8217;s tribute to &#8220;Meet Me in St. Louis&#8221;. Believe it or not &#8211; I came to this film late. I had never seen it and then I was in college, and I became friends with Mitchell, and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4078\">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":[370,413,1382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078"}],"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=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64243,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions\/64243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}