{"id":13940,"date":"2011-06-24T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T22:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=13940"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T22:55:23","slug":"goodbye-peter-falk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/06\/24\/goodbye-peter-falk\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Peter Falk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k9twa2GuxcA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2HwvB2zQnvI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/showtracker\/2011\/06\/appreciation-peter-falk-1927-2011.html\">Peter Falk <\/a>&#8211; 1927 &#8211; 2011<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Falk, who died Friday at age 83, was an actor of great and invisible skill who played many parts over a five-decade career. He was a late bloomer but quickly embraced on the stage and screens big and little \u2014 by 1962, he had been Oscar-nominated twice, for gangsters respectively chilling and comical in &#8220;Murder, Inc.&#8221; and &#8220;A Pocketful of Miracles,&#8221; and won an Obie playing Eugene O&#8217;Neill opposite Jason Robards. Later, he acted troublesome characters for director John Cassevetes in &#8220;Husbands&#8221; and &#8220;A Woman Under the Influence,&#8221; was brilliantly funny as a reckless CIA agent in &#8220;The In-Laws,&#8221; and narrated, grandfather-to-grandson, &#8220;The Princess Bride.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The In-Laws, The Husband, The Detective, The Scriptwriter, Friend of angels,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/09\/18\/just-one-more-thing\/\">Just One More Thing <\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im3\/peterfalk.gif\" alt=\"Peter Falk animation\" \/> (Previous post)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Falk &#8211; 1927 &#8211; 2011 Peter Falk, who died Friday at age 83, was an actor of great and invisible skill who played many parts over a five-decade career. He was a late bloomer but quickly embraced on the stage and screens big and little \u2014 by 1962, he had been Oscar-nominated twice, for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/06\/24\/goodbye-peter-falk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodbye Peter Falk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-13940","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\/13940","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=13940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}