{"id":10370,"date":"2019-12-07T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10370"},"modified":"2019-12-17T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:02:56","slug":"a-million-little-pieces-stellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/07\/a-million-little-pieces-stellar\/","title":{"rendered":"A MILLION LITTLE PIECES &#8220;Stellar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2019\/12\/06\/a-million-little-pieces-stellar-tale-of-addiction-redemption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Boston Herald (opens in a new tab)\">from The Boston Herald<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d stellar tale of addiction, redemption<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/author\/stephen-schaefer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">STEPHEN SCHAEFER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Million Little Pieces - Official Red Band Trailer\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nkhmp4HtBDI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is something both shocking and weirdly gallant to see Aaron Taylor-Johnson as James Frey completely unhinged and out of his skull \u2014 and clothes \u2014 as \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d opens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brief sequence immediately establishes the mindset of a self-destructive druggie and Taylor-Johnson\u2019s willingness to go wherever to tell a familiar story of rehab and redemption.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-written by real-life couple director Sam Taylor-Johnson (\u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d) and Aaron, \u201cPieces\u201d is an adaptation of Frey\u2019s once notorious but still in print bestselling memoir from 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The memoir was notoriously targeted by Oprah Winfrey for exaggeration and embellishing, which today seems quaint and completely out of proportion for the lies told daily in the national conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the Taylor-Johnsons have done is smoothly engrossing with a first-rate cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2019\/12\/06\/a-million-little-pieces-stellar-tale-of-addiction-redemption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at The Boston Herald (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at The Boston Herald<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Boston Herald \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d stellar tale of addiction, redemption By\u00a0STEPHEN SCHAEFER There is something both shocking and weirdly gallant to see Aaron Taylor-Johnson as James Frey completely unhinged and out of his skull \u2014 and clothes \u2014 as \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d opens. The brief sequence immediately establishes the mindset of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}