{"id":522,"date":"2005-06-01T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2005\/06\/gutbuster\/"},"modified":"2005-06-01T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T14:56:26","slug":"gutbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2005\/06\/gutbuster\/","title":{"rendered":"GUT-BUSTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let the opening number put you off: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0134647\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9TWFyaW8gQ2FudG9uZXxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=20\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Cantone<\/A> captures Norma Desmond as well as Jim Morrison (the lost Christmas special), and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sho.com\/site\/schedules\/product_page.do?episodeid=123852&#038;seriesid=0\" target=\"_blank\">Laugh Whore<br \/>\n<\/A> Showtime special makes the direct and necessary connection between gay-bashing and lynching. Nobody&#8217;s caught Liza quite this well, and for Cantone, &#8220;Cher has an Oscar&#8230; and that&#8217;s the punch line.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariocantone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Cantone.com<\/A>)<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<B>WHEN NEWS WAS NEWS<br \/>\n<\/B><BR><BR><br \/>\nWhile VF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/commentary\/content\/articles\/050530roco02\" target=\"_blank\">basks<\/A> in beating the Washington Post out of its own defining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/01\/AR2005060102021.html\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/A>, nobody&#8217;s asking where the Woodward and Bernstein of the Bush administration is&#8230; Watergate may have inspired a generation of kids to attend journalism school with glory in their heads, but they sure haven&#8217;t toppled the most constitutionally corrupt administration since. And somebody should be making the case that G.W. Bush&#8217;s crimes are far more profound and costly. (Incidentlly, VF has one of the better <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/dailydose\/listings\" target=\"_blank\">links<\/A> pages.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let the opening number put you off: Mario Cantone captures Norma Desmond as well as Jim Morrison (the lost Christmas special), and his Laugh Whore Showtime special makes the direct and necessary connection between gay-bashing and lynching. Nobody&#8217;s caught Liza quite this well, and for Cantone, &#8220;Cher has an Oscar&#8230; and that&#8217;s the punch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}