{"id":8661,"date":"2024-12-01T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:40:12","slug":"kiss-me-like-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8661","title":{"rendered":"kiss me like a stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read Gene Wilder&#8217;s memoir on the airplane. If I had a graphic novel company this would be our next job. Many parts visually gripping. Molested at a boys school, compulsively praying outside random buildings, great exchanges with Cary Grant, John Wayne and Richard Pryor and all before he even falls for Gilda Radner. I always assumed Mel Brooks wrote Young Frankenstein but it was Gene Wilder. When I was thirteen, my friend Boob Gutman and I  rabidly buying all things Beatles, we didn&#8217;t know what to make of the picture insert on George Harrison&#8217;s album Dark Horse. It was two men (Harrison and a man in a suit) with the quote: Well Leo! What say we promenade through the park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Gene Wilder&#8217;s memoir on the airplane. If I had a graphic novel company this would be our next job. Many parts visually gripping. Molested at a boys school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8661\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-8661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}