{"id":15194,"date":"2021-08-01T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15194"},"modified":"2021-08-01T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:34:11","slug":"for-madmen-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/01\/for-madmen-only\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For Madmen Only&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I will give you Del\u2019s body, and it\u2019s a great body, because you can study the effects of smoking, alcohol, cocaine, and heroin on the brain. All I need is the skull.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So said Charna Halpern, the longtime creative partner of improve legend <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Del_Close\">Del Close<\/a>, who insisted that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2006\/10\/09\/skulduggery\">skull be donated for use on stage<\/a> (e.g. in Hamlet). To say that he sounds like a character would be an incredible understatement, and this new documentary about his life &amp; work looks rather amazing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"For Madmen Only | Official Trailer | Utopia\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9P7AGbWPJ_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I will give you Del\u2019s body, and it\u2019s a great body, because you can study the effects of smoking, alcohol, cocaine, and heroin on the brain. All I need is the skull.&#8221; So said Charna Halpern, the longtime creative partner of improve legend Del Close, who insisted that his skull be donated for use on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15206,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions\/15206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}