{"id":2423,"date":"2007-07-17T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:58","slug":"young-red-haired-and-anne-ish-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"Young, Red-Haired, and Anne-ish: You Oughta Be in Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, you know how I love my Anne.<br \/>You might even know that Anne of Green Gables was the first fictional book I read that wasn&#8217;t a Peanuts comic when I was seven. You might know that I wrote at least six different endings to the book and didn&#8217;t know until years later that it had&#8230; sequels of its own.<br \/>If you peruse this blog periodically, you know I generally HATE, LOATHE AND DETEST books made into movies.<br \/>All this is fact.<\/p>\n<p>However.<\/p>\n<p>I have been told by reliable readers and film watchers that the last <i>Anne of Green Gables<\/i> movie put on by this movie company was actually pretty cool. It was faithful to the book. The actress was cute, but not too pretty, a bit eccentric. And dare we say&#8230; plucky. It was, all in all, pretty close to perfect.<\/p>\n<p>In view of this, I am passing along something from the people at <i>Sullivan Entertainment,<\/i> who are making a new movie version of Anne&#8217;s books. They&#8217;re hunting for an Anne. For a prequel.<br \/>I don&#8217;t generally approve of prequels of anything. (Did I <i>need<\/i> to know from Anakin Skywalker? Did I really?) I am not advocating this <i>at all<\/i>. But if you know someone cute and ten or twelve -well then,  <a href=\"http:\/\/sullivanmovies.com\/newannepress.html\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve done my bit<\/a> for their college money.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, you know how I love my Anne.You might even know that Anne of Green Gables was the first fictional book I read that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,10],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contest-alert","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}