{"id":2941,"date":"2013-12-19T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2014-02-03T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:20:58","slug":"movienight-thursday-december-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2941","title":{"rendered":"Venus. Toodle-oo, Mr. O&#8217;Toole."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/venus2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2947\" title=\"May I nibble your neck, Venus?\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/venus2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/venus2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/venus2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our MovieNight Christmas Special was an ironic tribute to Peter O&#8217;Toole, who passed away a few days before. Roger Michell&#8217;s <em>Venus<\/em> is a bitter-sweet comedy in which the Peter O&#8217;Toole-like character (played by O&#8217;Toole) confronts his mortality (or rather attempts not to) by pursuing the affections of a rough-edged, seventeen-year-old Mancunian girl. He achieves a certain amount of success in this pursuit, and life lessons are learned, but in the end&#8230; well&#8230; there&#8217;s &#8220;The End&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We had a lovely crowd this week and, along with our newest recruits, some long-absent faces showed themselves. It was lovely to see you all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0489327\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" alt=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our MovieNight Christmas Special was an ironic tribute to Peter O&#8217;Toole, who passed away a few days before. Roger Michell&#8217;s Venus is a bitter-sweet comedy in which the Peter O&#8217;Toole-like character (played by O&#8217;Toole) confronts his mortality (or rather attempts not to) by pursuing the affections of a rough-edged, seventeen-year-old Mancunian girl. He achieves a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venus. Toodle-oo, Mr. O&#8217;Toole.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}