{"id":381,"date":"2009-12-10T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=381"},"modified":"2009-12-10T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:14:00","slug":"snap_out_of_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/12\/snap_out_of_it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Snap out of it!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"description\">Here we have Nicolas Cage, Mr. Darcy, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman, Peter Sarsgaard and Christoph Waltz Talking About Art. You know, that old thing. The question of, &#8220;If we as actors don&#8217;t actually create anything&#8211;books, paintings, poetry, music, scripts&#8211;can we call ourselves artists?&#8221; comes up; that is, are screenplay writers (\/composers) artists while their mere interpreters actors (\/musicians) are not?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If this is boring to you, just skip to minute 1:46 when Nicolas Cage says, &#8220;When I see a great violinist like HIlary Hahn&#8230;&#8221; and they all go on to talk about our girl. <\/p>\n<p> <object height=\"300\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yOvjz-FGrkc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yOvjz-FGrkc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"300\" width=\"500\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet they saw her forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bach-Violin-Voice-Hilary-Hahn\/dp\/B002SSZ7E6\/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1260477828&amp;sr=1-14\">Bach CD<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/12\/week-in-review.html\">in the back of Tiger Woods&#8217;s car<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have Nicolas Cage, Mr. Darcy, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman, Peter Sarsgaard and Christoph Waltz Talking About Art. You know, that old thing. The question of, &#8220;If we as actors don&#8217;t actually create anything&#8211;books, paintings, poetry, music, scripts&#8211;can we call ourselves artists?&#8221; comes up; that is, are screenplay writers (\/composers) artists while their mere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}