{"id":4691,"date":"2009-08-07T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2010-08-04T00:38:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T05:38:40","slug":"jive-talkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=4691","title":{"rendered":"Jive Talkin&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RT3z67v_22k\"  target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4693\" title=\"screen12\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/screen12.jpg\" alt=\"screen12\" width=\"500\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/screen12.jpg 614w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/screen12-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I get invited to a number of movie press screenings, mostly for medium-budget, high-quality, serious &#8220;art&#8221; films. When I received the notice for political satire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcfilms.com\/films\/in-the-loop\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>In the Loop<\/em><\/a>, right, I looked at the image embedded <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4694\" title=\"_12402676236557\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_12402676236557-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"_12402676236557\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" \/>in the press release, said, &#8220;James Gandolfini as a <em>general<\/em>? Feh!&#8221; Ignored it. (That&#8217;s not him, above, but actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0134922\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Peter Capaldi<\/a>, who, in this transatlantic piece, plays Malcolm Tucker, the British prime minister&#8217;s director of communications.)<\/p>\n<p>What a mistake. I still haven&#8217;t seen the movie, but I wish the publicist had sent me the trailer, cause I&#8217;d have been there in a minute. <em>In the Loop<\/em>&#8216;s promo is one of the best, funniest, and most expertly edited I&#8217;ve ever seen. It perfectly conveys the film&#8217;s <em>Wag the Dog<\/em>, geopolitical-comedy-of errors, <em>Babel<\/em>-speak theme with deftness and hilarity that makes the short a must-watch-again. Check it out below, or, as I always prefer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/independent\/intheloop\/\"  target=\"_blank\">in Apple Quicktime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yJU2qRg5zLI?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yJU2qRg5zLI?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get invited to a number of movie press screenings, mostly for medium-budget, high-quality, serious &#8220;art&#8221; films. When I received the notice for political satire In the Loop, right, I looked at the image embedded in the press release, said, &#8220;James Gandolfini as a general? Feh!&#8221; Ignored it. (That&#8217;s not him, above, but actor Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}