{"id":8,"date":"2008-05-02T08:29:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T12:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-05-11T20:52:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T00:52:22","slug":"sweetie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Sweetie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/images\/sweetie.jpg\" alt=\"Sweetie?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was nice to get some rare personal-sofa-time during the screening of this darkly brilliant debut feature from Jane Campion. And&#8230; how about that Sangria!<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that disappointed though, in my [humble] opinion: not a single good-looking person in the movie. As  New Yorkers, we naturally expect a bit of <em>above-averageness<\/em>.  Just one would have been nice. Even the kid had a hideous haircut (inspired by the late Steve Irwin, no doubt). I guess Abbey Cornish was way too young, and neither of the Minogue sisters were post-op? Un-lucky, lucky, lucky.<\/p>\n<p>There must be at least a couple of <a title=\"The list so far\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?page_id=9\" target=\"_self\">attractive Australians<\/a> no?  Surely not all the convicts originally shipped out to help populate the territory were bad-looking? Or was that their crime against British society? We might just be on to something here&#8230; stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>But, I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0098725\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/movienight.richardlohr.com\/images\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"IMDB\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nice to get some rare personal-sofa-time during the screening of this darkly brilliant debut feature from Jane Campion. And&#8230; how about that Sangria! The one thing that disappointed though, in my [humble] opinion: not a single good-looking person in the movie. As New Yorkers, we naturally expect a bit of above-averageness. Just one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweetie<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}