{"id":90821,"date":"2014-10-15T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T12:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90821"},"modified":"2014-10-15T09:16:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:16:56","slug":"happy-birthday-udo-kier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=90821","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Udo Kier"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Kim Morgan writes a gorgeous and funny tribute to German actor and muse-to-many Udo Kier<\/a>. (I love his turn as the snooty man in Melancholia<\/i>, who puts his hand up as a barrier-wall between him and anything unseemly or, as he deems it, inappropriate.) <\/p>\n

Kim and Udo are good friends. They go scavenging through Palm Springs thrift shops together. They talk. There is a giant ball in Udo’s yard. They are both obsessed with it. Kim allows us to be a fly on the wall.<\/p>\n

I bring up Udo\u2019s beauty. He\u2019s shy about this for a moment. I tell him he\u2019s still gorgeous now, because he really is. He\u2019s lucky in that, as he gets older, he never loses his Udo-ness, it just seems to increase. He\u2019s too interesting a person, too unique, too vital, too great an actor, too smart for anything like beauty to fade. I\u2019m not flattering him. It\u2019s just too obvious. Every place I\u2019ve been with him, Paris or Winnipeg or Los Angeles or in the middle of a dirty thrift store in Morongo Valley, people look at him, things shift, the room temperature changes. Charisma. When he was young, he had to know he was one of the most beautiful men on the planet, I say. He\u2019s very gracious about this. Not boastful. Women must have thrown themselves at you, I tell him. Men and women. It must have been crazy all the time. He is again, humble and discreet but he knows that I know. Yes. It was fucking insane.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s much much more over at Kim’s great site, Sunset Gun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Kim Morgan writes a gorgeous and funny tribute to German actor and muse-to-many Udo Kier. (I love his turn as the snooty man in Melancholia, who puts his hand up as a barrier-wall between him and anything unseemly … 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90821"}],"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=90821"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90828,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90821\/revisions\/90828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}