{"id":6041,"date":"2007-02-22T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:07:33","slug":"in-praise-of-claude-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6041","title":{"rendered":"In praise of Claude Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the &#8220;5 for the day&#8221; series on <a href=\"http:\/\/mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com\/\">House Next Door <\/a>&#8211; and today<a href=\"http:\/\/mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/5-for-day-claude-rains.html\"> the focus is on Claude Rains<\/a> &#8211; one of my favorite actors ever.<\/p>\n<p>With an entire career of great performances &#8211; my favorite has to be <i>Notorious<\/i> &#8211; merely because it&#8217;s so &#8230; psychosexual and bizarre &#8230; and subtle &#8230; and &#8230; messed UP.  Seriously.  Sebastien is a fascinating villain &#8211; with strange Oedipal overtones &#8211; and Rains is absolutely BRILLIANT in that part.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, go over and enjoy.  It&#8217;s hard to choose &#8220;5 for the day&#8221; because he had such an incredible career &#8211; but that&#8217;s part of the fun of the &#8220;5 for the day&#8221; series.  It&#8217;s a great jumping-off point for conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the &#8220;5 for the day&#8221; series on House Next Door &#8211; and today the focus is on Claude Rains &#8211; one of my favorite actors ever. With an entire career of great performances &#8211; my favorite has to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6041\">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],"tags":[510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041"}],"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=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180219,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions\/180219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}