{"id":16208,"date":"2015-06-11T18:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=16208"},"modified":"2015-06-11T18:24:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:24:56","slug":"rip-christopher-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2015\/06\/11\/rip-christopher-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Christopher Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/christopherlee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16209\" src=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/christopherlee.jpg\" alt=\"christopherlee\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/christopherlee.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/christopherlee-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The consummate villain for sixty years and Ian Fleming&#8217;s cousin to boot! I had the good (or bad) fortune to see his work in the Hammer films as a kid. For some reason, WCIA-3 in Champaign, IL would have a week or two of these flicks from three to five during the <em>Early Show<\/em>. Less harmful than Jerry Lewis week in my opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. Lee definitely got immortalized for numerous generations by landing the roles of Saruman the White (a good guy converted to evil) in\u00a0<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> and Count Dooku\/Darth Tyrannus in the terrible\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em> prequels. At least he was one of the few upsides to negate Jar Jar and the horrendous dialog. Scaramanga in Bond&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Man with the Golden Gun<\/em> was pretty sweet too. These three roles earned him individual appearances on the villain dating-parody site\u00a0<em>Am I Evil or Not?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He had a humorous side too. I clearly recall him being the guest host on\u00a0<em>SNL<\/em> with the first troop. In his opening monologue he introduced a couple horror flicks he turned down, namely\u00a0<em>The Thing That Wouldn&#8217;t Leave;\u00a0<\/em>he played Death apologizing to a little girl for taking her hamster away; led a team of vampire slayers who had to drive a stake through Nixon&#8217;s memoirs before they were published; and did a hilarious &#8220;mistake&#8221; with his pronunciation when introducing the musical guest, &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, meet\u2026loaf.&#8221; Lee was definitely a natural at comedy. It probably explained why he could be a convincing, menacing Dracula.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consummate villain for sixty years and Ian Fleming&#8217;s cousin to boot! I had the good (or bad) fortune to see his work in the Hammer films as a kid. For some reason, WCIA-3 in Champaign, IL would have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2015\/06\/11\/rip-christopher-lee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[137,122,251,148,64,238,155],"class_list":["post-16208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-james-bond","tag-obit","tag-science-fiction","tag-space-opera","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16212,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16208\/revisions\/16212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}