{"id":8763,"date":"2025-02-28T05:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2025-03-09T02:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T02:28:35","slug":"zero-mostel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8763","title":{"rendered":"zero mostel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read about the play Zero Hour by Jim Brochu and after finding nothing in libraries or book stores here, ordered it from the states. A one man play. What do I know about Zero Mostel? He was blacklisted, he couldn&#8217;t work because he attended communist parties and in the 50s signed a petition to allow black players into the National Baseball League. In the 60s his career was resurrected, he played Max Bialystock in Springtime For Hitler and then A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof. I was a rabid fan of the solo Beatles in the 70s and George Harrison&#8217;s Dark Horse album had a gate-fold with picture inside of Harrison imitating Mostel and Wilder walking in the park. I loved the mystery of it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read about the play Zero Hour by Jim Brochu and after finding nothing in libraries or book stores here, ordered it from the states. A one man play. What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8763\" 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":[877],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","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=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}