{"id":809,"date":"2011-11-08T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/11\/remembering-spalding-gray.html"},"modified":"2011-11-08T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T22:13:00","slug":"remembering-spalding-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/11\/remembering-spalding-gray.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Spalding Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THERE&#8217;S a new collection of journals by the great actor and storyteller Spalding Gray, with a tribute event <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2011\/11\/08\/pencil_this_in_a_tribute_to_spaldin.php\">tonight<\/a> at the Laemmle Sunset 5. (More detail <a href=\"http:\/\/writersblocpresents.com\/main\/?p=1478\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yLSvlm8CoRU\/TrmpiXSvXOI\/AAAAAAAABM4\/qNUHZ6C_WC8\/s1600\/Early_gray.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yLSvlm8CoRU\/TrmpiXSvXOI\/AAAAAAAABM4\/qNUHZ6C_WC8\/s320\/Early_gray.jpg\" width=\"284\"><\/a>Soon after Gray&#8217;s 2004 disappearance &#8212; it was eventually deemed a suicide &#8212; I spoke to several theater and performance figures who walk in Gray&#8217;s footsteps. I wrote:<\/p>\n<p><i>With his mix of despair, humor, preppy shirts and New England dryness, he was sometimes called &#8220;the WASP Woody Allen.&#8221; But many of those inspired by his techniques went in very different directions. Some created aural collages; some explored their ethnicity; others became ranters. John Leguizamo, Danny Hoch and Eric Bogosian, at various times, did all three.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2004\/mar\/11\/news\/wk-timberg11\">HERE<\/a> is that story, which includes discussions with Anna Deveare Smith (&#8220;He introduced me to the idea that normal human behavior is performative&#8221;) Julia Sweeney, Tim Miller and Eric Bogosian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THERE&#8217;S a new collection of journals by the great actor and storyteller Spalding Gray, with a tribute event tonight at the Laemmle Sunset 5. (More detail here.) Soon after Gray&#8217;s 2004 disappearance &#8212; it was eventually deemed a suicide &#8212; I spoke to several theater and performance figures who walk in Gray&#8217;s footsteps. I wrote: [&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":[76,48,97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"category-new-york","8":"category-theater","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}