{"id":12150,"date":"2011-01-03T07:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2020-01-04T06:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T13:30:19","slug":"in-the-name-of-pete-postlethwaite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/01\/03\/in-the-name-of-pete-postlethwaite\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Name of Pete Postlethwaite"},"content":{"rendered":"

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    Obit from BBC <\/p>\n

    Broadcaster Stephen Fry, meanwhile, wrote on Twitter: “The loss of the great Pete Postlethwaite is a very sad way to begin a year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    R.I.P Pete \"Pete\" He was a smoker.<\/a><\/p>\n

    What makes you depressed?
    \nThat life will come to an end. (    Q & A<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Pete Postlethwaite talks to the Guardian about his new film Age of Stupid<\/a>, his eco-home in Shropshire, and what he thinks of climate change deniers<\/p>\n

    More Obits from
    \n<> <>     Guardian <\/a> <> <> Independent<\/a><\/p>\n

    His favorite book<\/a> was “Alexandria Quartet” <\/p>\n

    Nice photo here <\/a> (British actor Pete Postlethwaite, speaking at the Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh)<\/p>\n

    He was Mr Kobayashi in the Usual Suspect.<\/a><\/p>\n

    Tempest<\/a> <> <> In the name of my father<\/a> <> <> Distant Voices, Still Lives<\/a><\/p>\n

    The poet in Pete’s soul<\/a><\/p>\n

    Proud men, difficult men, flawed fathers – poignant at the hour of their death but not easily approachable, not-to-be-messed-with types – and if pushed, I’d say I’d pictured Postlethwaite, born in industrial Warrington in 1945, as one of those.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Brassed Off <\/a>– Rodrigo Concerto de Aranjuez <> <> Brassed off 2<\/a> – Pete as Danny making speech<\/p>\n

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    He formerly taught at a Catholic girl’s convent school.<\/p>\n

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    He was awarded OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2004 New Year’s Honors List for his services to drama.<\/p>\n

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    He once let an agent go after the agent suggested Pete change his last name to something more marquee-friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Obit from BBC Broadcaster Stephen Fry, meanwhile, wrote on Twitter: “The loss of the great Pete Postlethwaite is a very sad way to begin a year.” R.I.P Pete He was a smoker. What makes you depressed? That life will come to an end. (<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}