{"id":16366,"date":"2024-04-15T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16366"},"modified":"2024-04-15T17:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:29:29","slug":"melvin-and-howard-1980-jonathan-demme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16366","title":{"rendered":"Melvin and Howard (1980, Jonathan Demme)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin is <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3505\">Puppet Master<\/a><\/em> star Paul Le Mat, gives a ride to injured Howard (Jason Robards of <em>A Boy and His Dog<\/em>, made up to look like John Huston&#8217;s ghost).  But Melvin&#8217;s a fuckup, and the bulk of the story is his getting left by wife Mary Steenburgen, getting back together with her, and getting left again.  So it&#8217;s not surprising that he later mishandles the late Howard&#8217;s handwritten will, resulting in him never getting his share.  The real Melvin lived almost 40 years after the movie came out, so hopefully he at least enjoyed his biopic fame.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/melvin1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/melvin2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin is Puppet Master star Paul Le Mat, gives a ride to injured Howard (Jason Robards of A Boy and His Dog, made up to look like John Huston&#8217;s ghost). But Melvin&#8217;s a fuckup, and the bulk of the story is his getting left by wife Mary Steenburgen, getting back together with her, and getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,3242,165,3243],"class_list":["post-16366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-howard-hughes","tag-jonathan-demme","tag-mary-steenburgen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16390,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions\/16390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}