{"id":8288,"date":"2005-12-27T11:32:03","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T18:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/12\/27\/gloom-personified.html"},"modified":"2005-12-27T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T18:32:03","slug":"gloom_personifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/27\/gloom_personifi.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gloom personified&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/schiavelli.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" width=100 height=130 title=\"Vincent Schiavelli\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/movies\/253480_schiavelli27.html?source=mypi\" target=\"_blank\">RIP, Vincent Schiavelli<\/a>.  A classic gloomy-faced character actor, I&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001704\/\" target=\"_blank\">remember him<\/a> for his appearance in <em>Buckaroo Banzai<\/em> (as John O&#8217;Connor), and, more recently, as the politely professional killer, Dr. Kaufman, in <em>Tomorrow Never Dies<\/em>&#8230; along with eleventy-dozen other movies and TV shows appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP, Vincent Schiavelli. A classic gloomy-faced character actor, I&#8217;ll remember him for his appearance in Buckaroo Banzai (as John O&#8217;Connor), and, more recently, as the politely professional killer, Dr. Kaufman,&#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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"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":8288,"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":2397,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/29\/saturday.html","url_meta":{"origin":8288,"position":1},"title":"Saturday","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Jun-02 10:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I just finished watching the Buckaroo Banzai DVD (great bonus material there), so it must be time for the Saturday Eight. 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