{"id":652,"date":"2006-07-24T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2006\/07\/first_in_a_series_actual_email\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T10:40:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T14:40:57","slug":"first_in_a_series_actual_email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2006\/07\/first_in_a_series_actual_email\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST IN A SERIES: ACTUAL EMAIL SUBJECT LINES:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><B><br \/>\nENORMOUS ADVANCE ON PINK SHEETS<br \/>\n<\/B> <BR><BR><br \/>\nFascination juggles perplexity in <a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/21\/movies\/21mons.html\" target=\"_blank\">Monster House<\/A>. Animation is top-notch, and the advances are plain even to a layman; a character like Chowder is sui generis and far more detailed than necessary, loveable even; the voicings are mostly bull&#8217;s-eye etc. But the plot is boldly misogynist, and that black sidekick cop if inexplicable. Screenplay credits include two producers of Sarah Silverman&#8217;s Comedy Central pilot, and they must have barred the doors &#8212; this is material on a platter for her.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\nThe moral of this story would be something like: &#8220;If you run off with the circus fat lady and build her a house in the proto-burbs, make sure she&#8217;s mentally stable before she accidentally dies and terrorizes neighborhood for all eternity.&#8221; Stranger precepts have been turned into decent flicks, although on the face of it that&#8217;s pretty lousy all in itself. Am I missing some inside weight joke about Kathleen Turner doing the voice of &#8220;CONSTANCE&#8221;? At the end, &#8220;our hero&#8221; merges the terms &#8220;house&#8221; with &#8220;wife&#8221; for &#8220;housewife&#8221; (&#8220;CONSTANCE&#8221;) and then crosses the street to confront his own clueless Mom, who wields a GINORMOUS toothbrush, a monster in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENORMOUS ADVANCE ON PINK SHEETS Fascination juggles perplexity in Monster House. Animation is top-notch, and the advances are plain even to a layman; a character like Chowder is sui generis and far more detailed than necessary, loveable even; the voicings are mostly bull&#8217;s-eye etc. But the plot is boldly misogynist, and that black sidekick cop [&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-652","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\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}