{"id":489,"date":"2002-06-21T01:37:54","date_gmt":"2002-06-21T08:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/06\/21\/489.html"},"modified":"2002-06-21T01:37:54","modified_gmt":"2002-06-21T08:37:54","slug":"congeniality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/06\/21\/congeniality\/","title":{"rendered":"Congeniality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw <cite>Miss Congeniality<\/cite> the other day.  Fun; it manages to do a surprisingly good (if not terribly realistic) job of balancing feminism and traditional femininity, without in the end denigrating either.<\/p>\n<p>And Sandra Bullock is growing on me; I still don't find her especially attractive, but I thought she did a good job with the part.  And Benjamin Bratt is mighty cute.  (Huh&#8212;the IMDB says his mother was a Native American activist, and took him and his four siblings along when she participated in the occupation of Alcatraz in 1970.  Interesting.)  Michael Caine is fun as a flamboyant pageant trainer\/consultant; William Shatner as the pageant MC is not bad, but wasn't as entertaining as I'd been led to expect.<\/p>\n<p>Not a brilliant movie, but has a bunch of very entertaining moments, including several bits of funny dialogue in the background or in passing as other stuff's going on.  (There's a particularly entertaining background-dialogue reference to a certain famous musical movie in the final scene.)  One bit I liked (but that may not work out of context) has Bullock's character (FBI agent Gracie Hart) talking with Bratt's character (FBI agent Eric Matthews) as they cross a street:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hart<\/strong>: What could possibly motivate anybody to enter a beauty pageant is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthews<\/strong>: Scholarship money.  Chance to see the world, broaden your horizons, meet new people.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hart<\/strong>: So join the Marines.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Miss Congeniality the other day. Fun; it manages to do a surprisingly good (if not terribly realistic) job&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}