{"id":3865,"date":"2012-12-12T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2012-12-12T23:29:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T04:29:13","slug":"who-is-heathcote-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2012\/12\/who-is-heathcote-williams.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Heathcote Williams? Not for Sale, That&#8217;s Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He is one of a few of genius who did not sell out and who peaks in (relative) old age. That\u2019s quite something nowadays.&#8221; <em>&#8212; Gerard Bellaart<\/em> +++<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-QqMKdexZA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fame is the first disgrace because God knows who you are.&#8221; &#8212; <em>Heathcote Williams,<\/em> &#8220;The Local Stigmatic&#8221; +++<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vS0ZnZ2hHOg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The videos comprise Parts 1 and 2 of a semi-sendup documentary from Channel 4, &#8220;Every Time I Cross the Tamar, I Get into Trouble.&#8221; It was broadcast in 1993 as an account of some of Heathcote Williams&#8217;s work and Al Pacino&#8217;s obsession with his writing, and includes an interview with Harold Pinter and footage from Pacino&#8217;s film &#8220;The Local Stigmatic,&#8221; which co-starred Paul Guilfoyle. Yes, the docu is from soooo long ago. But it&#8217;s too good to pass up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He is one of a few of genius who did not sell out and who peaks in (relative) old age. That\u2019s quite something nowadays.&#8221; &#8212; Gerard Bellaart +++ &#8220;Fame is the first disgrace because God knows who you are.&#8221; &#8212; Heathcote Williams, &#8220;The Local Stigmatic&#8221; +++ The videos comprise Parts 1 and 2 of a [&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":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-literature","7":"category-media","8":"category-movies","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-10l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}