{"id":597,"date":"2011-11-28T14:49:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2011-11-28T14:49:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:49:53","slug":"rip-ken-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/rip-ken-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Ken Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British cinema has just lost one of its true visionaries, director <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ken Russell\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Russell\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ken Russell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We crossed paths once, at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Pineapple Dance Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pineapple.uk.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\">Pineapple dance studios<\/a> in London. At the time I had a huge beard and as we passed, on a staircase, like two directors in the night, he gave me a very warm inviting smile. Later on I discovered he had been holding auditions there for a production of Treasure Island and concluded he must have mistaken me for an aspiring pirate.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=840\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British cinema has just lost one of its true visionaries, director Ken Russell. We crossed paths once, at Pineapple dance studios in London. At the time I had a huge beard and as we passed, on a staircase, like two directors in the night, he gave me a very warm inviting smile. Later on I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/rip-ken-russell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Ken Russell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82,78],"tags":[320,321,322],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors","category-film","tag-ken-russell","tag-pineapple","tag-treasure-island"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1cZYU-9D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5368,"url":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2018\/02\/25\/london-worldwide-comedy-short-film-festival\/","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":0},"title":"London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival","author":"Paul D","date":"February 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This just in from the Director of the London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival, regarding 'The Toadlickers' music video I directed for Thomas Dolby: \u00a0\"Our judges thought your film had many admirable qualities so we have awarded it an \"Honourable Mention\".","rel":"","context":"In &quot;80s&quot;","block_context":{"text":"80s","link":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/category\/80s\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}