{"id":5441,"date":"2012-08-17T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T20:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2012-08-17T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T20:35:59","slug":"glenn-ford-%e2%80%93-the-great-and-the-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5441","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Ford \u2013 the Great and the Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3397\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 130px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/AffairInTrinidad_Ital_poster_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3397 \" title=\"AffairInTrinidad_Ital_poster_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/AffairInTrinidad_Ital_poster_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">At least this poster reflects a real event!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Would love to blather at end about how great Glenn Ford was at playing tormented tough guys in brilliant noir dramas like Fritz Lang&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/b\/4005_BigHeat1953.htm\">The Big Heat<\/a> <\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5436\">M<\/a>] (out on Blu via Twilight Time), and still managed to keep his dignity amid crap like Columbia&#8217;s blatant attempt to reprocess the teaming of Ford and Rita Hayworth in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/a\/4006_AffairInTrinidad.htm\">Affair in Trinidad<\/a> <\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5428\">M<\/a>] (Sony), but alas, there&#8217;s much to do.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Star just reported the Toronto Undergound cinema&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/movies\/article\/1242523--toronto-underground-cinema-to-close-in-september\" >folding<\/a> in September due to some interesting circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad, regardless, given it&#8217;s a 700 seat cinema that may become something dumb like a media &amp; yoga room for the tenants in the condo units above, but the guys behind the indie cinema took a worthy gamble at offering something different.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.blogspot.ca\/2010\/05\/big-trouble-in-chinatown-toronto.html\">2010 blog &amp; interview <\/a>, when everything was all shiny &amp; new.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just uploaded: reviews of two Glenn Ford vehicles, made during the actor&#8217;s prime: Fritz Lang&#8217;s great noir The Big Heat, out out Blu courtesy of Twilight Time, and the banal Affair in Trinidad (Sony), which proves front &#038; centre that Hollywood&#8217;s been making movies without scripts for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1448,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1pL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}