{"id":385,"date":"2006-11-22T16:41:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T23:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:14:47","slug":"kenneth-turan-on-conan-the-barbarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/kenneth-turan-on-conan-the-barbarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Turan on <em>Conan the Barbarian<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image384\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2006\/11\/kenneth_turan.jpg\" alt=\"kenneth_turan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the end of film critic Kenneth Turan&#8217;s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Now-Theaters-Everywhere-Celebration-Blockbuster\/dp\/1586483951\/sr=8-1\/qid=1164238715\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-0682303-0626208?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\"><em>Now In Theaters Everywhere: A Celebration of a Certain Kind of Blockbuster<\/em><\/a>, he includes his 1979 essay &#8220;Behind the Scenes: Conan the Barbarian&#8221; which might be of interest to fans of Howard and of that film. A recent Los Angeles Times book review by Tara Ison calls that particular essay &#8220;a wonderful look at the origins and development of a then-high-risk film project&#8221; but adds that &#8220;the story ends, disappointingly, in pre-production&#8221; rather than also describing the shooting of the film. Still, if you are a fan of that movie, you may want to hunt it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of film critic Kenneth Turan&#8217;s new book Now In Theaters Everywhere: A Celebration of a Certain Kind of Blockbuster, he includes his 1979 essay &#8220;Behind the Scenes: Conan the Barbarian&#8221; which might be of interest to fans of Howard and of that film. A recent Los Angeles Times book review by Tara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-and-reh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16333,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/16333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}