{"id":2713,"date":"1997-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/09\/29\/marquee-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T00:23:10","slug":"marquee-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/09\/29\/marquee-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"M: What&#8217;s Showing? (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>Ranjit writes that a road rally he was once in included the clue \"Turn right at Sleeping Crimson.\" He explains: \"Turned out to be a movie theater showing <cite>While You Were Sleeping<\/cite> and <cite>Crimson Tide<\/cite>. I never saw those movies, but the mysteriously evocative phrase 'sleeping crimson' has stuck with me ever since. I considered using it for my web site name, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonmilk.com\">moonmilk<\/a> is so much shorter...\"<\/p>\r\n<p>Jeff Hildebrand mentions seeing \"After Dark My Sweet Presumed Innocent\" on a marquee. And Melissa Shaner found \"Flubber Apostle.\"<\/p>\r\n<p>Stewart Evan provides a couple of marquee juxtapositions from Santa Cruz. Some years back, at the Riverfront Twin, he saw<\/p>\r\n<table>\r\n\t<tr>\r\n\t\t<td align=\"center\">Accidental<br \/><br \/>Tourist<\/td>\r\n    <td align=\"center\">Farewell<br \/>to the<br \/>King<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p>Ah, yes, \"Accidental Farewell to the Tourist King,\" that classic of American cinema. This year, Stewart saw a \"juxtaposition that suggested that the guy putting up letters had forgotten titles and was putting up plot summaries\":<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Something<br \/>\r\nAbout Mary<br \/>\r\nSaving Private<br \/>\r\nRyan<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 10 January 1999)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/09\/28\/marquee\/\">Back to column M<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-uppercase-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}