{"id":2881,"date":"2008-01-23T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T02:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2008-01-23T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:05:25","slug":"ledger-gilliam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2881","title":{"rendered":"Ledger, Gilliam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Man, Terry Gilliam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?id=47550\">just can&#8217;t catch a break<\/a>:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The future of Terry Gilliam&#8217;s <em>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus<\/em> has been thrown into question following the sudden death of its star Heath Ledger, Variety reported.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I&#8217;m not trying to make light of Ledger&#8217;s untimely and shocking death &#8212; unlike, maybe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/?p=9524\">some people<\/a> &#8212; but Gilliam has probably had more projects fall apart during or before production than any other director I know. The closest thing he&#8217;s ever had to a hit was over ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Gilliam, though, it somehow managed to escape my attention that <a href=\"http:\/\/pythonline.com\/\">PythOnline<\/a> is back and completely new. In the sidebar, Eric Idle writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As founder of this virtual organ I feel like the father of a gifted idiot \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I can no longer remember the act of passion that created it, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that it still persists. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to look after it, or feed it, or wipe its little butt, but I do admire its refusal to go away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, Terry Gilliam just can&#8217;t catch a break: The future of Terry Gilliam&#8217;s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has been thrown into question following the sudden death of its star Heath Ledger, Variety reported. I&#8217;m not trying to make light of Ledger&#8217;s untimely and shocking death &#8212; unlike, maybe, some people &#8212; but Gilliam has &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2881\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}