{"id":819,"date":"2012-08-20T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/20\/director-tony-scott-dies\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:38:00","slug":"director-tony-scott-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/20\/director-tony-scott-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Tony Scott dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zap2it.com\/pop2it\/tony-scott-dead-gi.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.zap2it.com\/pop2it\/tony-scott-dead-gi.jpg\" width=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Film director Tony Scott committed suicide yesterday at age 68. While he was never an arthouse institution and didn&#8217;t have critical weight, Scott&#8217;s movies were immensely popular and changed the direction of big-action blockbusters. Perhaps most notably, Scott was sort of a Hollywood kingmaker, directing films that were massively successful game-changers for Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise. <\/p>\n<p>Take off your faded pink caps and ride into the danger zone one last time with a few of Tony Scott&#8217;s films:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092099\/\">Top Gun<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 2959<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108399\/\">True Romance<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 3820<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1687247\/\">Life in a Day<\/a> &#8211; HU DVD 9229\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film director Tony Scott committed suicide yesterday at age 68. While he was never an arthouse institution and didn&#8217;t have critical weight, Scott&#8217;s movies were immensely popular and changed the direction of big-action blockbusters. Perhaps most notably, Scott was sort of a Hollywood kingmaker, directing films that were massively successful game-changers for Jerry Bruckheimer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors","category-obituaries","tag-related-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}