{"id":4395,"date":"2009-03-16T06:42:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2009-03-16T06:36:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T11:36:23","slug":"pour-down-like-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4395","title":{"rendered":"RIP Ron Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Silver has passed away at 62.<\/p>\n

Silver was a capable actor who became, arguably, more famous for bucking Hollywood’s dominant liberalism after 9\/11, fighting a war of conscience that consumed his acting career but brought him new appreciation from a different breed of fans.<\/p>\n

Little did anyone know until very recently that, as Roger L. Simon notes<\/a>, that <\/em>battle was just a piker. Silver has had stomach cancer for several years:<\/p>\n

Somewhere around a year ago we were having breakfast in New York. He wasn\u2019t looking good, hair thin from chemo, sallow complexion, etc. His energy, however, as always, was spectacularly high and he was filled with plans for his new Sirius radio show. But something was wrong. It wasn\u2019t just the cancer, but it was related to the cancer. Ron was, above all things, an actor, a fantastic actor. And the cancer made him unable to do that work. He told me he had just been offered the lead in Coriolanus<\/em> at the Long Wharf, but didn\u2019t think he could do it. He would be too tired with his illnes to play a Shakespeare lead. His artistic work was all over for him. It was the one time in all the recent years I saw him on the edge of tears.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m starting to cry myself as I type this, so I\u2019m going to shut up. What a great man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Simon’ll be back with more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Silver has passed away at 62. Silver was a capable actor who became, arguably, more famous for bucking Hollywood’s dominant liberalism after 9\/11, fighting a war of conscience that consumed his acting career but brought him new appreciation from a different breed of fans. Little did anyone know until very recently that, as Roger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}