{"id":5934,"date":"2007-01-24T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2021-07-27T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T01:41:40","slug":"marilyn-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5934","title":{"rendered":"Harold Lloyd: Connecting Marilyn Monroe to Stallone"},"content":{"rendered":"

… photographed by Harold Lloyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The <\/i>Harold Lloyd? The silent film star<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I like that picture. It has a strange candid feel to it. Ceci? Anything to add, o Marilyn Monroe expert?? Where is she? Is it candid? I love the comment over there to that post that Marilyn Monroe is always 3-D without the audience having to put on the goggles. Ha!<\/p>\n

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More of my obsessive sickness below the fold:<\/p>\n


\nI do realize that I am all about Rocky right now, I am aware that I am very sick in the head – and that all roads do NOT actually lead back to Rocky Balboa, but for me, right now, they do. So. About Harold Lloyd. (Who was also Cary Grant’s inspiration for the character in Bringing Up Baby<\/i> – those silly round glasses.) I just bought the 2 disc collector’s edition of Rocky – which just came out, on the heels of Rocky Balboa – and the entire thing has audio commentary from Stallone. I’ve only listened to a bit of it – but he was talking about the black hat Rocky always wears, and how it was kind of a battle with the studio to allow him to wear it. They didn’t “get it” and didn’t like what he looked like with the hat on – but Stallone felt it was important that Rocky be all armored up, and that he look … well, like a thug. But Stallone also said in the commentary, “And there was kind of an homage there, too, that I liked – to Chaplin – the tramp – and Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton – those little guys who took on the big guys …”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… photographed by Harold Lloyd. The Harold Lloyd? The silent film star? I like that picture. It has a strange candid feel to it. Ceci? Anything to add, o Marilyn Monroe expert?? Where is she? Is it candid? I love … Continue reading →<\/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],"tags":[44,2384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934"}],"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=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169697,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/169697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}