{"id":489,"date":"2010-07-04T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=489"},"modified":"2010-07-04T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T18:05:06","slug":"i_mean_this_as_the_highest_com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/07\/i_mean_this_as_the_highest_com\/","title":{"rendered":"I mean this as the highest compliment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Warning: this blog post may be even more lowbrow than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/07\/how-to-take-a-good-publicity-s.html\">that one with the mice playing instruments<\/a>. Consider yourselves emotionally prepared. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I was just watching some pre-fireworks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/true-blood\/index.html\"><i>True Blood<\/i><\/a>, and noticed that Pam Ravenscroft<b><strong><\/strong><\/b>, hench-woman vampire with a propensity toward pink, bears an uncanny resemblance to <i>Life&#8217;s a Pitch&#8217;s <\/i>second favorite soprano, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneefleming.com\/\">Ren\u00e9e Fleming<\/a>. Look, they even have THE SAME <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YyceTZ2SJo8\">FINGERLESS GLOVES<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PamTheVampire.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/PamTheVampire.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"284\" width=\"500\" \/> <\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ReneeFleming.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/ReneeFleming.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"285\" width=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m fairly to moderately pleased with myself for making this connection. I never could have done it without Ren\u00e9e&#8217;s recent <i><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/dark-hope\/id372084122\">Dark Hope<\/a> <\/i>photo shoot hair extensions, though:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PamTrueBlood.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/PamTrueBlood.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"621\" width=\"500\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ReneeFlemingLongHair.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/ReneeFlemingLongHair.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"515\" width=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<div>OK, just a few more, side-by-side, now:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ReneeAndPam1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/ReneeAndPam1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"201\" width=\"500\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ReneeAndPam2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/ReneeAndPam2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"172\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>I&#8217;ll let you know when I think of a publicity angle, here. Maybe they&#8217;ll cast  Ren\u00e9e as Pam&#8217;s Goody Two-Shoes sister. Maybe she&#8217;ll get to sing at Fangtasia, I don&#8217;t know. But in the meantime, I&#8217;ll be casting the rest of <i>True Blood<\/i> with classical musicians. Feel free to participate. <\/p>\n<p>Happy Fourth, readers!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: this blog post may be even more lowbrow than that one with the mice playing instruments. Consider yourselves emotionally prepared. I was just watching some pre-fireworks True Blood, and noticed that Pam Ravenscroft, hench-woman vampire with a propensity toward pink, bears an uncanny resemblance to Life&#8217;s a Pitch&#8217;s second favorite soprano, Ren\u00e9e Fleming. Look, [&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-489","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\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}