{"id":4699,"date":"2006-04-06T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T15:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2010-07-15T07:51:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T11:51:19","slug":"the-recycle-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4699","title":{"rendered":"Roger Corman: The Recycle King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/recycling-roger-corman_05.html\">Awesome blog-post <\/a>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/\">NY Press <\/a>film critic Matt Zoller Seitz about <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0000339\/\">Roger Corman<\/a>, in honor of the guy&#8217;s 80th birthday.  (I never miss his columns anyway in the NY Press and I was really excited to discover &#8211; via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevesilver.net\/mt\/archives\/006928.html\">Steve Silver<\/a>, that he has <a href=\"http:\/\/mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com\/\">a blog<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>One excerpt &#8211; but definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/recycling-roger-corman_05.html\">go read the whole thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I mean, really, why mince words? Roger Corman is the film production equivalent of a high school cafeteria from hell, a place that might serve, say, sliced turkey breast on Monday, turkey casserole on Tuesday, turkey sandwiches on Wednesday and turkey soup on Thursday, then finish out the week with spaghetti and turkey meatballs, then tell anybody who complained, &#8220;What the hell&#8217;s your problem? It&#8217;s edible, ain&#8217;t it?&#8221; That, boys and girls, is why he&#8217;s survived a half-century in the movie business, and why people who have never seen most of his movies still treat his name as a synonym for the ability to look adversity in the face and say, &#8220;Hey, brother &#8212; wanna buy some spaceship footage?&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome blog-post by NY Press film critic Matt Zoller Seitz about Roger Corman, in honor of the guy&#8217;s 80th birthday. (I never miss his columns anyway in the NY Press and I was really excited to discover &#8211; via Steve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4699\">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":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699"}],"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=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20594,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions\/20594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}