{"id":84642,"date":"2014-06-02T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=84642"},"modified":"2022-10-13T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T15:41:17","slug":"on-lauren-bacall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=84642","title":{"rendered":"On Lauren Bacall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nA fascinating analysis of Lauren Bacall’s walk by Joe McElhaney<\/a>. I have spent a lot of time thinking about Lauren Bacall, studying Lauren Bacall. McElhaney’s piece is a goldmine. Here is just one insightful observation: <\/p>\n

Bacall\u2019s importance as a film star, on the other hand, is not fundamentally comic, even though her presence otherwise depends upon a strongly ironic presentation of self within otherwise melodramatic situations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing<\/a>. It’s wonderful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fascinating analysis of Lauren Bacall’s walk by Joe McElhaney. I have spent a lot of time thinking about Lauren Bacall, studying Lauren Bacall. McElhaney’s piece is a goldmine. Here is just one insightful observation: Bacall\u2019s importance as a film … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84642"}],"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=84642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181071,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84642\/revisions\/181071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}