{"id":6254,"date":"2007-04-18T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:45:31","slug":"in-praise-of-kurt-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6254","title":{"rendered":"In praise of Kurt Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/5-for-day-kurt-russell.html\">Absolutely gorgeous post of acknowledgement of one of my favorite actors, Kurt Russell.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah really &#8220;gets it&#8221;, as far as I&#8217;m concerned.  Kurt Russell is, indeed, &#8220;dependable&#8221; &#8211; a word that has positive connotations, but can often mean you are truly under-rated as an actor.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah writes about his performance in <i>Escape from New York<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reason Kurt Russell is so good at playing this kind of comic book hero is that he makes you recognize that he\u0092s a real human being, with feelings and thoughts. That rouses one to cheer for him as he dives into the action; that\u0092s what defines a true movie star<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I loved his comments on <i>Miracle<\/i> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3507\">I wrote about Kurt Russell in <i>Miracle<\/i> here.<\/a>  You want to see a true movie star &#8211; an old-school movie star &#8211; at the top of his freakin&#8217; game?  Being so dependable and making it look so easy that people barely notice &#8230; people take him for granted?  Watch Kurt Russell in <i>Miracle<\/i>.  I would say watch Kurt Russell in anything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/5-for-day-kurt-russell.html\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.  That post made my morning (great comments to the post, too &#8211; for example one person writes: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it marks me as some kind of lamentable douchebag, but I absolutely love Big Trouble in Little China.&#8221; hahahahaha  I&#8217;m a lamentable douchebag too, then.).  I could talk about Kurt Russell all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely gorgeous post of acknowledgement of one of my favorite actors, Kurt Russell. Jeremiah really &#8220;gets it&#8221;, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. Kurt Russell is, indeed, &#8220;dependable&#8221; &#8211; a word that has positive connotations, but can often mean you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6254\">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":[332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254"}],"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=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180477,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions\/180477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}