{"id":7146,"date":"2012-06-13T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:58:08","slug":"paul-williams-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=7146","title":{"rendered":"PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE- 2011. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;He won Grammys and an Academy Award; wrote many #1 songs; starred in a Brian DePalma movie; put out his own hit records and albums; was a guest on The Tonight Show fifty times; and is the president of ASCAP&#8230;and you might not have heard of him. In the 1970&#8217;s, Paul Williams was the singer \/ actor \/ songwriter that emotional, alienated teenage boys all over the world wanted to be, a sex symbol before MTV, when sex symbols could be 5&#8243;2 and sing songs about loneliness with the Muppets. A wistful musical journey that will re-introduce a new generation to Williams&#8217; soulful classics, Paul Williams: Still Alive is the charmingly self-narrated story of Stephen Kessler&#8217;s lifelong obsession with the former superstar-and what happens when the nostalgic filmmaker finally catches up with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good review in the NY Times on 6\/8\/12 despite a negative reaction to the director who may have taken advantage of the subject more for personal gain. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7\/28\/16- <strong>An excellent documentary with great access to the subject. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAUL WILLIAMS STILL ALIVE- 2011. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. &#8220;He won Grammys and an Academy Award; wrote many #1 songs; starred in a Brian DePalma movie; put out his own hit records and albums; was a guest on The Tonight Show fifty times; and is the president of ASCAP&#8230;and you might not have heard of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,49],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentaryhistory","category-seen-on-netflix","tag-documentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19144,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/19144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}