{"id":792,"date":"2012-01-23T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/01\/david-milchs-luck.html"},"modified":"2012-01-23T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T20:41:00","slug":"david-milchs-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/01\/david-milchs-luck.html","title":{"rendered":"David Milch&#8217;s &quot;Luck&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT do get when you cross the men behind <i>Deadwood<\/i> and <i>Miami Vice<\/i> with Dustin Hoffman? Bet you didn&#8217;t think it would be a television series set at the Santa Anita racetrack and revolving around a quartet of degenerate gamblers, a crusty Kentuckian who talks to himself, some nasty white-collar criminals\u00a0and a few noble, beautifully photographed horses?<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Lt71tiO2WUk\/Tx3GADzhUTI\/AAAAAAAABPo\/jpIjI3YYEJE\/s1600\/SantaAnitaTrackMtns_wb.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"207\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Lt71tiO2WUk\/Tx3GADzhUTI\/AAAAAAAABPo\/jpIjI3YYEJE\/s320\/SantaAnitaTrackMtns_wb.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><br \/>Somehow, this is what fortune &#8212; or at least, HBO &#8212; has given us, and my curtain-raiser on the series <i>Luck<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/tv\/la-ca-luck-20120122,0,3528636.story\">here<\/a>. I was lucky enough to sit down with David Milch, Michael Mann and Hoffman recently and speak with them about the show.<\/p>\n<p>As rich as it is, this program seems like &#8212; no pun intended &#8212; a real gamble for the cable network. I&#8217;ll be interested to see whether people watch it, in part because I have another story on <i>Luck<\/i> planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT do get when you cross the men behind Deadwood and Miami Vice with Dustin Hoffman? Bet you didn&#8217;t think it would be a television series set at the Santa Anita racetrack and revolving around a quartet of degenerate gamblers, a crusty Kentuckian who talks to himself, some nasty white-collar criminals\u00a0and a few noble, beautifully [&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":[30,77,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-los-angeles","7":"category-television","8":"category-west-coast","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}