{"id":528,"date":"2022-03-17T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2022-04-05T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:31:10","slug":"licorice-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/17\/licorice-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Licorice Pizza. We serve up all the toppings!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/licpiz2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-530\"\/><figcaption>You&#8217;ve come a long way, Alana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Thomas Anderson returned to form (by which I mean, <em>Magnolia<\/em> form&#8230; it&#8217;s not as though his film-making has been too shabby in the inerim!) with the multi-layered and star-studded <em>Licorice Pizza<\/em>. Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman are officially stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NewScreen continues to return to form too. Tonight was one of those nights that I felt hesitant about starting the movie. Conversation at the bar was lively, with some first-timers, unable to hide their delight at this &#8220;new discovery&#8221;, striking up conversations with our more &#8220;regular&#8221; guests, some of whom hadn&#8217;t attended for many years. But&#8230; the show must go on, and so it did. As expected, we were mesmerized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old &#8220;Aprez&#8221; playlist got dusted off too, and although I know it&#8217;s just wrong, we danced once again to that perennial favorite, <em>Step In The Name Of Love<\/em>, by the disgraced R.Kelly. Oops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our very short feature tonight was a mid-eighties <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FpypTXccG2I\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy&#8217;s commercial<\/a> poking fun at the lack of choice in the then Soviet Union. And, by the way&#8230; Fuck Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11271038\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Thomas Anderson returned to form (by which I mean, Magnolia form&#8230; it&#8217;s not as though his film-making has been too shabby in the inerim!) with the multi-layered and star-studded Licorice Pizza. Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman are officially stars. NewScreen continues to return to form too. Tonight was one of those nights that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/17\/licorice-pizza\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Licorice Pizza. We serve up all the toppings!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}