{"id":91,"date":"2011-01-24T15:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T15:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp\/?p=91"},"modified":"2011-01-24T15:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T15:32:46","slug":"susannah_york_tom_jones_jfk_ki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/2011\/01\/susannah_york_tom_jones_jfk_ki.html","title":{"rendered":"Susannah York, &#8216;Tom Jones,&#8217; JFK, &#8216;Killing of Sister George&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/Susannah%20York%20in%20The%20Killing%20of%20Sister%20George.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Susannah York in The Killing of Sister George.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/Susannah York in The Killing of Sister George-thumb-276x212-18814.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"212\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m back in the writing saddle after quite some time, and it took unexpected memories of an underknown movie star to do it. The helicopter-shot hunting sequence in Tony Richardson&#8217;s 1963&nbsp;<i>Tom Jones <\/i>brought that equestrian cliche to mind, because in it a saddled Sophie Western is plucked off her runaway steed by a steed of another kind, the ready, randy Mr. Jones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yes, Susannah York died recently. She had ensorcelled my adolescent eyes not once but twice, the second time as creepy Childie in 1968&#8217;s <i>The Killing of Sister George<\/i>. We should know by now that public figures can inhabit one&#8217;s imagination for quite private reasons, reasons I try to discover in an essay published today in the online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obit-mag.com\/articles\/why-i-miss-susannah-york-\">Obit Magazine<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-weight: bold; \">For an automatic alert when there is a new Out There post, email&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-weight: bold; \"><st1:personname w:st=\"on\"><a href=\"mailto:jiweinste@aol.com\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(171, 4, 4); \"><font color=\"#ab0404\">jiweinste@aol.com<\/font><\/a><\/st1:personname><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-weight: bold; \">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in the writing saddle after quite some time, and it took unexpected memories of an underknown movie star to do it. The helicopter-shot hunting sequence in Tony Richardson&#8217;s 1963&nbsp;Tom Jones brought that equestrian cliche to mind, because in it a saddled Sophie Western is plucked off her runaway steed by a steed of [&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":[4],"tags":[48,243,241,242],"class_list":{"0":"post-91","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-movies","8":"tag-obits","9":"tag-susannah-york","10":"tag-tom-jones","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}