{"id":402,"date":"2007-05-14T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/05\/14\/tough-guys\/"},"modified":"2007-05-14T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T18:20:20","slug":"tough-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/05\/14\/tough-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Guys &#8211; Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gore Vidal Documentary Part 2<br \/>\n<object width=\"375\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WpHnAvs6Wc8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WpHnAvs6Wc8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"375\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Norman Mailer and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vonnegut.com\/\">Kurt Vonnegut<\/a> are featured in this Gore Vidal documentary on youtube.<\/p>\n<p>More on Mailer and his perfectionism &#8211; the sound of punching himself to eternity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m watching Norman Mailer hit himself and I\u2019m not stopping him. He hit himself at least twenty times\u2014in the face and the chest\u2014until we finally got it right. I saved that sound effect, and I\u2019ve used it in about twenty movies since. I always tell other directors, \u2018You hear that? That\u2019s Norman Mailer punching himself. He\u2019s in your movie.\u2019 \u201d(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2007\/05\/21\/070521ta_talk_singer\"> Tough Guys, New Yorker)<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gore Vidal Documentary Part 2 Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut are featured in this Gore Vidal documentary on youtube. More on Mailer and his perfectionism &#8211; the sound of punching himself to eternity. I\u2019m watching Norman Mailer hit himself and I\u2019m not stopping him. He hit himself at least twenty times\u2014in the face and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/05\/14\/tough-guys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tough Guys &#8211; Nostalgia&#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":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}