{"id":414,"date":"2010-02-03T02:37:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=414"},"modified":"2010-02-03T02:37:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:37:59","slug":"the_way_you_hold_your_middle_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/02\/the_way_you_hold_your_middle_a\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The way you hold your middle and index fingers separate from your ring and pinky fingers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font style=\"font-size: 1.25em;\"><font style=\"font-size: 1em;\">&#8230;.the way we danced till three.<\/font>&#8220;<br \/><\/font><\/b><br \/>via <i><a href=\"http:\/\/operachic.typepad.com\/opera_chic\/2010\/02\/gershwin-biopic.html\">OperaChic<\/a><\/i>, and I really don&#8217;t know where she finds these things:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"post-title\"><font style=\"font-size: 1.25em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/hollywood\/exclusive-zachary-quinto-tunes-up-for-steven-spielbergs-gershwin\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Zachary Quinto (aka Spock &amp; Sylar) Tunes Up For Spielberg's Gershwin\">EXCLUSIVE: Zachary Quinto (aka Spock &amp; Sylar) Tunes Up For Spielberg&#8217;s Gershwin<\/a><\/font><\/h2>\n<p>Since he dropped out of <em>Harvey<\/em>, Steven Spielberg&#8217;s first<br \/>\nproject under the reconstituted DreamWorks has been a subject of much<br \/>\nspeculation. Now I hear who&#8217;s at the center of the director&#8217;s biopic of<br \/>\nGeorge Gershwin, which DreamWorks acquired last fall. It&#8217;s Zachary<br \/>\nQuinto &#8212; Sylar in the NBC drama-fantasy <em>Heroes<\/em>, and Spock in the JJ Abrams-directed megapic <em>Star Trek<\/em>.<br \/>\nQuinto will play the famed composer and pianist, who with brother Ira<br \/>\nwas responsible for more than a dozen Broadway shows before dying at<br \/>\n38. (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/hollywood\/\"><i>Deadline Hollywood<\/i><\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I was the only person in the country who loved the Cole Porter movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0352277\/\"><i>De-Lovely<\/i><\/a>, so I have high hopes. When my friend Donnie and I saw it in a Stamford, CT movie theater on a Sunday circa 11pm, we were the only people there and just sang along really loudly the whole time. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest with you: this has nothing to do with classical music PR. I just like <i>Star Trek <\/i>and musicals and <i>OperaChic, <\/i>and my sister, in addition to those things, <i>really <\/i>likes Zachary Quinto. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.the way we danced till three.&#8220;via OperaChic, and I really don&#8217;t know where she finds these things: EXCLUSIVE: Zachary Quinto (aka Spock &amp; Sylar) Tunes Up For Spielberg&#8217;s Gershwin Since he dropped out of Harvey, Steven Spielberg&#8217;s first project under the reconstituted DreamWorks has been a subject of much speculation. Now I hear who&#8217;s at [&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-414","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\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}