{"id":1186,"date":"2005-07-01T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T15:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/07\/sammys_white_dreams_1\/"},"modified":"2005-07-01T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T15:56:04","slug":"sammys_white_dreams_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/07\/sammys_white_dreams_1.html","title":{"rendered":"SAMMY&#8217;S WHITE DREAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\/catalog\/author.pperl?authorid=42228\" class=inline target=new\"?><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sammyDAVISbookCOVER.bmp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/sammyDAVISbookCOVER.bmp\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" align=left border=0\/><\/a><br \/>\nGlad to see AJ colleague Terry Teachout has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/archives20050626.shtml#101189\" class=inline target=new\"><font color=#003399><b>changed his mind<\/b><\/font><\/a> about Wil Haygood&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/product-description\/037540354X\/ref=dp_proddesc_0\/103-9850341-9133431?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;n=283155\" class=inline target=new\"><font color=#003399><b>&#8220;In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.&#8221;<\/b><\/font><\/a> Though Terry still believes it&#8217;s sloppily written (revised upward to &#8220;not beautifully written&#8221;), he now says &#8220;it tells a fascinating story in a very effective way, so much so that my memory of the book was more enthusiastic than my review.&#8221; Maybe Terry will come around on the writing one day. He&#8217;s halfway there. My staff of thousands hopes so. It reminds me that my review, first published in the Chicago Sun-Times, was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeingblack.com\/2003\/x102003\/sammy.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><font color=#003399><b>flat-out rave<\/b><\/font><\/a>. The prose may not have the mandarin elegance Terry prefers, but it&#8217;s plenty beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>changed his mind about Wil Haygood&#8217;s flat-out rave. The prose may not have the mandarin elegance Terry prefers, but it&#8217;s plenty beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-j8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}