{"id":2011,"date":"2011-04-25T06:28:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T06:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/timeless\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T03:52:50","slug":"timeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/timeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I hope these Youtube videos<\/strong> stay online for a while, so you can all see this British documentary about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Waters_(filmmaker)\" >John Waters<\/a>, made around the time <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hairspray_(1988_film)\" >Hairspray<\/a><\/i> (the first, non-musical one) was released. It&#8217;s a little annoying to listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Ross\" >Jonathan Ross<\/a>&#8216;s voice-ver, but it&#8217;s so charming to see the interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Divine_(actor)\" >Divine<\/a> in the first section:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BOHm-56nm88?si=QdHgXmLrBovlu9Wc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Divine died only a week after the release of <i>Hairspray<\/i> in 1988, and this is the only footage I&#8217;ve ever seen of him enjoying the well-deserved praise for his work in the film. It also makes me sad all over again to think that he never got the chance to see how big <i>Hairspray<\/i> eventually became.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pD-SkZpgTeU?si=E_RdeENlmNNz6ftO\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope these Youtube videos stay online for a while, so you can all see this British documentary about John Waters, made around the time Hairspray (the first, non-musical one) was released. It&#8217;s a little annoying to listen to Jonathan Ross&#8216;s voice-ver, but it&#8217;s so charming to see the interview with Divine in the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/timeless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Timeless&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultrahistorical","category-ultramedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77499,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/77499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}