{"id":8249,"date":"2008-07-21T15:13:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2024-10-27T21:49:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T01:49:01","slug":"i-was-a-director-for-hire-i-needed-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8249","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was a director for hire. I needed the job.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Valdez has another movie review up &#8211; and this time <a href=\"http:\/\/thisdistractedglobe.com\/2008\/07\/20\/the-player-1992\/\">it&#8217;s about one of my favorites:  Robert Altman&#8217;s <i>The Player<\/i>. <\/a>  I did not know that Sidney Lumet was originally attached as a director, and that Robert Altman did the job &#8220;for hire&#8221;.  Amazing.  I need to see it again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6879\">Here&#8217;s my post on Dean Stockwell&#8217;s one scene in <i>The Player<\/i>.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Valdez has another movie review up &#8211; and this time it&#8217;s about one of my favorites: Robert Altman&#8217;s The Player. I did not know that Sidney Lumet was originally attached as a director, and that Robert Altman did the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[388,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249"}],"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=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181795,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions\/181795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}