{"id":4613,"date":"2006-03-13T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:56:05","slug":"another-great-one-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4613","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., Maureen Stapleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/13\/movies\/13cnd-stapleton.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">Maureen Stapleton has died.  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>She was one of my childhood acting idols, one of the ones responsible for me taking it seriously (we&#8217;re talking age 12 &#8211; 15, that was when it came to life in me, and Stapleton was a big part of that).   Her breakout performance in Tennessee Williams&#8217; <i>The Rose Tattoo<\/i> on Broadway with Eli Wallach is the stuff of legends &#8230; what I wouldn&#8217;t give for a time machine to see her play that part!<\/p>\n<p>A real actor&#8217;s actor, she had a career most people only dream of.<\/p>\n<p>I love this quote from Maureen about being an unattractive person (she knew she was, she had no illusions about herself &#8211; especially not with people like Marilyn Monroe as her best friend):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People looked at me on stage and said, &#8216;Jesus, that broad better be able to act.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And dammit, she could.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Maureen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen Stapleton has died. She was one of my childhood acting idols, one of the ones responsible for me taking it seriously (we&#8217;re talking age 12 &#8211; 15, that was when it came to life in me, and Stapleton was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4613\">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":[7,23],"tags":[1780],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613"}],"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=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179010,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/179010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}