{"id":2523,"date":"2004-05-24T05:49:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T19:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/24\/showgirls-commentary-track\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:31:06","slug":"showgirls-commentary-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/24\/showgirls-commentary-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Showgirls commentary track"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10989,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/movies\\\/174488_tf124.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.seattlepi.com\\\/movies\\\/174488_tf124.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve never had a chance to catch it, for a while now local Seattle writer David Schmader has been hosing screenings of the infamous Showgirls, providing a running commentary skewering the film in what I&#8217;ve heard makes for an absolutely hilarious showing.<\/p>\n<p>MGM, rather than taking umbrage at this, has decided to play along, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/movies\/174488_tf124.html?source=rss\" title=\"Talking Trash About 'Showgirls'\">asked David to record a commentary track<\/a> for an upcoming special edition DVD release.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  After numerous successful screenings, Schmader was moving on when &#8220;Showgirls'&#8221; producer MGM called. Rather than suing him for commercially skewering its product, MGM asked him to provide a commentary for the &#8220;special edition&#8221; DVD to be released at the end of July.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s just cool. Good for you, MGM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;(I Left My Heart In) San Francisco&#8221; by Bennett, Tony from the album <em>Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1975<\/em> (1962, 2:51).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve never had a chance to catch it, for a while now local Seattle writer David Schmader has been hosing screenings of the infamous Showgirls, providing a running commentary skewering the film in what I&#8217;ve heard makes for an absolutely hilarious showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,2536],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-showgirls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}