{"id":3974,"date":"2016-09-22T23:59:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T03:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2016-09-26T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:14:00","slug":"movienight-thursday-sept-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3974","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee remembered."},"content":{"rendered":"

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When we learned of playwright Edward Albee’s death, it seemed fitting to show Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf<\/em> once again (it had been almost 3 years since our earlier screening).<\/p>\n

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Edward Albee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As if paying tribute out of a sense of duty, several of our MovieNight guests apologetically announced that they wouldn’t be staying for the movie, but wanted to drop in for a drink. Ha! You try walking away from this car crash of marital bitterness! Of course, almost all of the pre-excused stayed until the bitter\/bittersweet end. They may have been hooked from the beginning by our short, Who’s Afraid of Virgin Wool<\/em>, from the comic genius, Benny Hill.<\/p>\n

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf<\/em> was also the debut feature of director Mike Nichols, who passed away in November of 2014. His next movie was The Graduate.<\/p>\n

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When we learned of playwright Edward Albee’s death, it seemed fitting to show Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf once again (it had been almost 3 years since our earlier screening). As if paying tribute out of a sense of duty, several of our MovieNight guests apologetically announced that they wouldn’t be staying for the movie, … Continue reading Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee remembered.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974"}],"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=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}