{"id":4173,"date":"2003-01-23T15:52:02","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2003-01-23T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2003-01-23T20:52:02","slug":"based_on_a_true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/23\/based_on_a_true.html","title":{"rendered":"Based on a True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s this week&#8217;s <a title=\"8Bit Joystick.com: 3XThursday 1\/23\/2k3 : Based on a True Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitjoystick.com\/archives\/001199.php#001199\">3XThursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>1. If there was going to be a movie made about your life what would it be like? Who would play you and who would direct it. What style of movie would it be?<\/b>  Probably it would be a chick flick, sappy romance, with a Kevin Smith-style geeky\/philosophical spin to it.  I have no idea who would play me (<i>not <\/i>Tom Bosley); someone, most likely, far more photogenic than me.  Or maybe Jim Carrey.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm.  Now that I think of it, Kevin Smith might not be a bad director to choose.  Plus, I can&#8217;t think of any others off the top of my head.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. If a music album was going to be made about your life who would make it.<\/b> Dr. Demento?  No, but seriously &#8230; the Bangles.  Seriously.  <\/p>\n<p><b>3. If your life was going to be made into a book who would you choose to write it?<\/b>  Steven Brust.  He would make me sound far wittier than I am, but I know he can handle the drama thing, too.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bonus Question for comments [but I&#8217;ll include it here]: What popular actor or actress would make you retch if they were picked for a role to play you.<\/b> Adam Sandler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s this week&#8217;s 3XThursday&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130666,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/the-return-of-buckaroo-banzai.html","url_meta":{"origin":4173,"position":0},"title":"The Return of &#039;Buckaroo Banzai&quot;?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-May-16 1:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If this were anyone but Kevin Smith, I'd be running headlong the other direction, but I think he has just the amount of love for the source material and zaniness to maybe make this work.Also, the idea of having Season 1 be the original movie (with added backstory and stuff),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132751,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/03\/the-fall-and-rise-of-young-justice.html","url_meta":{"origin":4173,"position":1},"title":"The Fall and Rise of &quot;Young Justice&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Feb-17 3:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Received wisdom from various inside sources indicated that the excellent YJ animated series was canceled after only two seasons because of -- well, rumors[1] that it wasn't drawing in enough boys in the audience (girls being discounted because they wouldn't buy enough action figures)Well, Khary Payton, who did (and presumably\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49898,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/movie-review-mr-mrs-smith-2005.html","url_meta":{"origin":4173,"position":2},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith&quot; (2005)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 21-Mar-15 4:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A very short review I will include here in toto:-----True Lies meets Undercover Blues meets War of the Roses meets The Wild Bunch meets ...I don't care. 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