{"id":67249,"date":"2025-06-24T09:32:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=67249"},"modified":"2025-06-24T09:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:32:47","slug":"william-wyler-an-old-favorite-speaks-about-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/06\/william-wyler-an-old-favorite-speaks-about-film.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>William Wyler, an Old Favorite, Speaks About Film<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"William Wyler Interview (April 21, 1975)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T-AilT6gkPA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Well, of course he&#8217;s a favorite. See <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talent-Trouble-Hollywoods-Acclaimed-Director-ebook\/dp\/B00S35AGNA\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E0YQF2ZF1I1I&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zKNlRc5Iw4pN0-lDgkWU__zdoExS4C2-0EMPJ273-f0.CllQniaCFjBRhfHJd8Fy5If-ffy0E51Aq_eVDfVAK60&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=a+talent+for+trouble+by+jan+herman&amp;qid=1750771142&amp;sprefix=a+talent+for+trouble+by+%2Caps%2C87&amp;sr=8-1\">A Talent for Trouble<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong> <br>(Notice how carefully he watches his questioner. He&#8217;s making sure to read lips. <br>That&#8217;s because he went partially deaf from his military service during WWII.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Well, of course he&#8217;s a favorite. See &#8220;A Talent for Trouble.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29591,"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":[26,18,4,20,21,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-media","11":"category-movies","12":"category-news","13":"category-political-culture","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wyler-and-bette-davis.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-huF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67249","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=67249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67260,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67249\/revisions\/67260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}