{"id":83616,"date":"2022-10-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83616"},"modified":"2022-10-13T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T21:56:12","slug":"singular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83616","title":{"rendered":"Singular"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Angela Lansbury died earlier this week.  She was just short of her 97th birthday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m from a generation, sociology and geography that mostly knows her from <em>Murder She Wrote <\/em>and thousand viewings of <em>Beauty and the Beast <\/em>when my kids were little, and the bit of trivia that she was in, and exceptional, in one of my favorites, <em>Gaslight <\/em>with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if I ever want to know how important an actor <em>really <\/em>is, today as in 2004, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=180517\">I go to Sheila O&#8217;Malley<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If you think there is another career like Angela Lansbury\u2019s \u2013 if you think a comparison can be made to somebody else\u2019s career \u2013 you\u2019re wrong. There IS nobody else. If Judy Garland were still around, doing television and movies and Broadway, then MAYBE. But other than that: Angela Lansbury stands (stood) alone. Angela Lansbury never rested on her laurels, and never stopped working. She showed up everywhere. She was bone-chilling in&nbsp;<em>The Manchurian Candidate<\/em>. She was sassy and insouciant as Elizabeth Taylor\u2019s teenage sister in&nbsp;<em>National Velvet<\/em>. She was Auntie Mame. She was Mrs. Lovett. She was Jessica Fletcher, dammit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s high time I watched <em>Gaslight <\/em>again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Lansbury died earlier this week. She was just short of her 97th birthday. I&#8217;m from a generation, sociology and geography that mostly knows her from Murder She Wrote and thousand viewings of Beauty and the Beast when my kids were little, and the bit of trivia that she was in, and exceptional, in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83616","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=83616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83623,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83616\/revisions\/83623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}