{"id":1381,"date":"2004-11-08T09:58:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T13:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2004-11-08T09:58:19","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T13:58:19","slug":"a-very-funny-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"a very funny film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb:Leningrad+Cowboys+go+America\">Leningrad Cowboys<\/a> have competition. We finally got round to watching <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb:might+wind\">A mighty wind<\/a> last night, Christopher Guest&#8217;s take on folk music, and it took about ten minutes longer than the running time, simply because we kept laughing so hard that we had to rewind to catch the drowned dialogue.<\/p>\n\n<p>Oddly, all the funniest lines belonged to women: the PR woman talking about her partner &#8212; &#8220;You could say that we share a brain&#8221;; Jane Lynch&#8217;s  monologue as a nice girl from Idaho who became a porn actress, and then a folk musician; the closing sequence of a woman singing about incontinence to an autoharp accompaniment at a trade show where her husband is selling &#8220;SteadyFlo&#8221; catheters. they are named after his grandmother, Florence. In a less funny film, they&#8217;d have been named after his mother.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leningrad Cowboys have competition. We finally got round to watching A mighty wind last night, Christopher Guest&#8217;s take on folk music, and it took about ten minutes longer than the running time, simply because we kept laughing so hard &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}