{"id":3243,"date":"2011-11-28T13:40:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/ken-russell-gone\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:41:58","slug":"ken-russell-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/28\/ken-russell-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Russell Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ken_russell_oscar-nominated_director_of\/277038\" target=\"_blank\">from E! Online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Ken Russell, Oscar-Nominated Director of\u00a0<em>Tommy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Women in Love<\/em>, Dies<\/h1>\n<p class=\"entry_meta\" style=\"display: block; margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #cccccc\">Today 7:53 AM PST by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/author\/peter+gicas\" title=\"view all posts by Peter Gicas\" rel=\"author\" style=\"text-decoration: none !important; color: #083b74; text-transform: uppercase\" target=\"_blank\">PETER GICAS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry_img_top\" style=\"width: 427px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20111028\/\/425.RusselMovies.tg.112811.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"315\" alt=\"Tommy, Women in Love, Altered States, Ken Russell\" title=\"Tommy, Women in Love, Altered States, Ken Russell\" \/><span class=\"photo_credit\"><em>Columbia Pictures; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc; Warner Bros; Getty Images<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ken Russell<\/strong>, the man who brought a certain pinball wizard to the big screen, has passed away. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>The British director, a wizard in his own right behind the camera, died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday following a series of strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1927, Russell&#8217;s early career was rooted in television before he made the transition to movies in the mid-1960s. His best-known work during that time was the 1969 film\u00a0<em>Women in Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\">While the adaptation of the\u00a0<strong>D.H. Lawrence<\/strong>\u00a0novel earned its star,\u00a0<strong>Glenda Jackson<\/strong>, a Best Actress Oscar as well as a Best Director nomination for Russell, the movie is probably best remembered for a nude wrestling scene involving\u00a0<strong>Alan Bates<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Oliver Reed<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But that was nothing compared to the controversy that stemmed from Russell&#8217;s 1971 film\u00a0<em>The Devils<\/em>. With subject matter involving everything from exorcisms to orgies, the movie found itself coming face-to-face with censors and was banned from playing in many theaters.<\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<\/span><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\">[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ken_russell_oscar-nominated_director_of\/277038\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at E!<\/a> ]\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from E! Online Ken Russell, Oscar-Nominated Director of\u00a0Tommy\u00a0and\u00a0Women in Love, Dies Today 7:53 AM PST by\u00a0PETER GICAS Columbia Pictures; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc; Warner Bros; Getty Images Ken Russell, the man who brought a certain pinball wizard to the big screen, has passed away. He was 84. The British director, a wizard in his own right [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","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=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}