{"id":25501,"date":"2021-05-19T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/?p=25501"},"modified":"2021-05-20T08:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T13:18:52","slug":"rip-charles-grodin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2021\/05\/19\/rip-charles-grodin\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Charles Grodin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. Grodin definitely had a great run and when I became a young adult, I got a better grip on his humor. Before then, I thought he was just a grump on David Letterman plus\u00a0<em>The Lonely Guy\u00a0<\/em>was a boring flick. On the latter, I finally got it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The rest of his catalog here correlated with my upbringing and he was the perfect straight man and foil in them all:\u00a0<em>The Great Muppet Caper, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Clifford, Heaven Can Wait, The Lonely Guy<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Seems Like Old Times<\/em>. Everybody else mentioned\u00a0<em>Midnight Run<\/em> but I&#8217;ve never seen it, maybe I will in the near future. I would rather check out his breakout performance in\u00a0<em>The Heartbreak Kid<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks for everything Mr. Grodin. You were a gem of an actor and although you were called in for the same role, you made each character you played unique\u00a0<em>and<\/em> memorable. This helped make your co-stars shine with the laughs: Miss Piggy, Martin Short, Lily Tomlin, Dyan Cannon, Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Grodin definitely had a great run and when I became a young adult, I got a better grip on his humor. Before then, I thought he was just a grump on David Letterman plus\u00a0The Lonely Guy\u00a0was a boring flick. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2021\/05\/19\/rip-charles-grodin\/\">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":[457,144,304,172,154],"class_list":["post-25501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-celebrity-obituary","tag-eighties","tag-humor","tag-satire","tag-seventies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501","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=25501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25503,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions\/25503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}