{"id":13698,"date":"2015-04-21T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13698"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:57:39","slug":"an-oral-history-of-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13698","title":{"rendered":"An Oral History of Airplane!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/surely-you-cant-be-serious-oral-history-airplane-218043\">this Onion A\/V Club oral history<\/a> of the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00AEFXDGE\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00AEFXDGE&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkId=L6GFMIIOWTXDJ243\"><b>Airplane!<\/b><\/a> is very much worth your time. Tidbits include:<\/p>\n<li>Zucker and company wanted to do the film in black and white featuring a propeller plane, Paramount had to convince them to go modern.\n<li>David Letterman tested for the role of Ted Striker.\n<li>Teaching Barbara Billingsley to speak Jive.\n<li>The kid in the cockpit had <em>no idea<\/em> what Peter Graves&#8217; was talking about when they were filming.\n<li>The secrets of Leslie Nielson&#8217;s handheld fart machine.\n<\/li>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long piece, but well worth it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it already this Onion A\/V Club oral history of the movie Airplane! is very much worth your time. Tidbits include: Zucker and company wanted to do the film in black and white featuring a propeller plane, Paramount had to convince them to go modern. David Letterman tested for the role of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[833,1917,1916,595,1975,1918,562],"class_list":["post-13698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-airplane","tag-barbara-billingsley","tag-david-letterman","tag-funny","tag-movies","tag-peter-graves","tag-the-onion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13722,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions\/13722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}