{"id":4843,"date":"2006-05-13T18:55:44","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T22:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2015-05-22T06:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:51:43","slug":"david-thomson-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4843","title":{"rendered":"David Thomson Snippets:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been devouring David Thomson&#8217;s massive 20 pound book  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375709401\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0375709401&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=IAU4RYOUQBC6IRIG\">The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0375709401\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The snippets I&#8217;ve excerpted below are just a tiny FRACTION of what he writes about all these people &#8211; his essay on Fred Astaire goes to 3 pages.<\/p>\n<p>A couple things before we move on:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; I like to talk about all this stuff in a serious way, and have no interest in defending that to the eye-rollers.  This is for people who love films and like to talk about them as art, and who never put quotations around the word art, showing that they mock the entire concept.  But to those of you who actually believe there is such a thing as art, and artists are not to be sneered at on principle, then yay for you, you are my friend, and please read on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; I didn&#8217;t post these because I agree with every sentiment. I am into how this guy writes. I find him thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>His hatred brings out real goodies, but his love of people, too, brings out some golden observations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been devouring David Thomson&#8217;s massive 20 pound book The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated. The snippets I&#8217;ve excerpted below are just a tiny FRACTION of what he writes about all these people &#8211; his essay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4843\">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":[15],"tags":[1226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843"}],"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=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20665,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions\/20665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}