{"id":1157,"date":"2009-02-02T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/john-updike-and-hollywood.html"},"modified":"2009-02-02T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T18:19:00","slug":"john-updike-and-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/john-updike-and-hollywood.html","title":{"rendered":"John Updike and Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SYc71W3slcI\/AAAAAAAAAEo\/xapUTx48ayA\/s1600-h\/updike.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SYc71W3slcI\/AAAAAAAAAEo\/xapUTx48ayA\/s320\/updike.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>It&#8217;s been a very hard year or so for major writers &#8212; we lost norman mailer near the end of 07, david foster wallace last year and now, last week, john updike. (and my boyhood hero kurt vonnegut a little further back.)<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/blog-entry\/1205\">here<\/a> is the first of two stories of mine on updike &#8212; it ran in the new hollywood site t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/\">he wrap<\/a>. my editor there is the fiendishly talented <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/writers\/maria-russo\">maria russo<\/a>, who i wrote for at the LA Times.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>the story tries to answer the question, why weren&#8217;t there more movies, and perhaps more good movies, from the work such a prolific, long-lived and lyrical writer?\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>any other hunches?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/johnmcnab\/3231591685\/\">15<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very hard year or so for major writers &#8212; we lost norman mailer near the end of 07, david foster wallace last year and now, last week, john updike. (and my boyhood hero kurt vonnegut a little further back.) \u00a0 here is the first of two stories of mine on updike &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145,163,76,183,392],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-50s","7":"category-60s","8":"category-film","9":"category-suburbia","10":"category-updike","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}