{"id":182039,"date":"2016-01-12T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/12\/my-thoughts-following-david-bowies-death\/"},"modified":"2016-01-12T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:05:00","slug":"my-thoughts-following-david-bowies-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/12\/my-thoughts-following-david-bowies-death\/","title":{"rendered":"My Thoughts Following David Bowie&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i1O4iZOt23Q\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Live Version<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I never bought any of his albums or singles, but my favorite song of his is <i>Putting out a Fire<\/i> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cat_People_(1982_film)\">1982 movie <i>Cat People<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I saw it, but was not particularly impressed.  I preferred the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cat_People_(1942_film)\">original 1942 movie<\/a>, which is widely viewed as a classic.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my experiences with Bowie as an artist were as an actor.<\/p>\n<p>I saw him in the 1976 film, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth\"><i>The Man Who Fell to Earth<\/i><\/a>, which was a his cinematic debut, and quite literally the worst cinematic experience in my life.<\/p>\n<p>It was boring, pretentious, confusing, ponderous, and dull.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I am left the question, &#8220;How the f%$# can you cast David Bowie as an alien, and completely f%$# it up?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By the same token he was also in one of my favorite films, the Tony Scott&#8217;s criminally unappreciated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hunger_%281983_film%29\"><i>The Hunger<\/i><\/a>, a stylish film starring Bowie, Susan Sarandon, and Catherine Deneuve. <\/p>\n<p>It is a stylish vampire film that eschews many of the cliches, and it is unbelievably hot. (Watch it)<\/p>\n<p>Of Labyrinth, one of Jim Henson&#8217;s few fizzles, the less said the better.<\/p>\n<p>I do see a parallel between his music career and his theatrical career, in that he never seemed to settle on a personae.<\/p>\n<p>Both in music and in film, he was a sort of character actor, where he reveled in changing who he was in public.<\/p>\n<p>Any of the music and cinema buffs out there, feel free to tell me that I am full of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Version I never bought any of his albums or singles, but my favorite song of his is Putting out a Fire from the 1982 movie Cat People. I saw it, but was not particularly impressed. I preferred the original 1942 movie, which is widely viewed as a classic. Most of my experiences with Bowie &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,993,1137,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cinema","category-music","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}