{"id":151,"date":"2006-07-10T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T09:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=151"},"modified":"2015-07-06T20:44:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T01:44:06","slug":"dvd_stage_beaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/07\/dvd_stage_beaut.html","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Stage Beauty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this a while ago and never got around to watching it.  Which just proves I&#8217;m a moron because this is a great movie and I can only hazard a guess that the stars&#8217; extracurricular activities (Billy Crudup and Claire Danes hooking up on this movie and Crudup dumping his 7 months pregnant girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker) kept people from going to it (yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayundies.com\/\">Jen<\/a>, I&#8217;m thinking of you and assuming that would give you even more pause than the Brangelina situation did over &#8220;Mr &#038; Mrs. Smith&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just beautiful.  Heartbreakingly, wrenchingly, poignantly beautiful.  How do you find yourself again when all that is YOU has been lost?  Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Crudup is amazing.  And there&#8217;s a pretty humorous scene where you cannot help but notice (if you haven&#8217;t before) how incredibly flatchested Danes is as she has to bare her breast basically &#8220;to show she&#8217;s a woman&#8221; yet when she bares it&#8230;well, I&#8217;m not sure that proved anything!  <em>Ah ha ha ha ha.  I used to feel your pain, Claire, 35-some pounds ago&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this a while ago and never got around to watching it. Which just proves I&#8217;m a moron because this is a great movie and I can only hazard a guess that the stars&#8217; extracurricular activities (Billy Crudup and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/07\/dvd_stage_beaut.html\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}