{"id":554,"date":"2014-01-22T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/01\/22\/the-room-director-tommy-wiseau-comes-to-dc-this-weekend-what-a-story-mark\/"},"modified":"2014-01-22T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:05:00","slug":"the-room-director-tommy-wiseau-comes-to-dc-this-weekend-what-a-story-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/01\/22\/the-room-director-tommy-wiseau-comes-to-dc-this-weekend-what-a-story-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Room director Tommy Wiseau comes to DC this weekend (What a story, Mark!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/market\/washingtondc\/washingtondc_frameset.htm\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tunidPsXrL0\/UuAWLs4qsXI\/AAAAAAAAA8s\/iuEfyk0Cw5s\/s1600\/Still-from-The-Room-2.jpg\" height=\"180\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in certain film circles, you have likely heard of <i>The Room<\/i>, a notoriously bad 2003 movie about a sordid love triangle. <i>The Room<\/i> is remarkably horrible, failing on both technical and creative levels. It&#8217;s filled with flubbed transitions, rampant misogyny, ungrammatical dialogue, and characters that are recast halfway into the movie. It is an un-masterpiece, one of the truly worst works of the last decade and a <i>Rocky Horror<\/i>-style classic for cult audiences. Against all odds, <i>The Room<\/i> is enduringly popular, selling out midnight shows around the country with call-and-response audience participation.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most exciting DC film events so far this year, writer-director-star Tommy Wiseau and co-star Greg Sestero will host three screenings of <i>The Room<\/i> this weekend at E Street Cinema, complete with Q&amp;A and autographed posters. Wiseau makes occasional appearances around the year, but it is rare that Sestero shows up as well. Tickets are likely to sell out in advance, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/market\/washingtondc\/washingtondc_frameset.htm\">get them now while you can<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s guaranteed to be a raucous evening, one that newcomers and veterans alike will enjoy. If you&#8217;ve never gone before, you might want to bring a box of plastic spoons with you. &#8230;you&#8217;ll figure out why.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in certain film circles, you have likely heard of The Room, a notoriously bad 2003 movie about a sordid love triangle. The Room is remarkably horrible, failing on both technical and creative levels. It&#8217;s filled with flubbed transitions, rampant misogyny, ungrammatical dialogue, and characters that are recast halfway into the movie. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}