{"id":491,"date":"2004-06-03T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=491"},"modified":"2004-06-03T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T22:18:08","slug":"starring_quasim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Starring Quasimodo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Kilborn interviewed Marlee Matlin<\/a> last night. I think it was a rerun, but I was struck by how gracefully Kilborn handled the interview. Kilborn has a bit of the frat boy air about him, but that wasn’t on display during the interview. I don’t think he even brought up her deafness and he had the courtesy to interview Matlin’s interpreter. Matlin is a beautiful woman and that probably helps in her interactions with the media, but it was still nice to see an actress with a disability being interviewed without condescension or pity. I keep hoping that we’ll see more people with disabilities in the entertainment industry, but I’m not sure people like Matlin will ever be more than the occasional anomaly in Hollywood. I get the impression that most entertainment executives think it’s okay to have an able-bodied actor play someone who has a disability; they still look normal enough to the audience. But what about the real thing? Will audiences accept an actor who slurs their speech or maybe drools once in a while? That kind of stuff may be excused in aging rock stars, but I don’t think people want to see it when they’re watching Law & Order.
\nA big shout-out to Da Goddess<\/a> for directing some traffic my way. Always grateful to expand my nano-audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Kilborn interviewed Marlee Matlin last night. I think it was a rerun, but I was struck by how gracefully Kilborn handled the interview. Kilborn has a bit of the frat boy air about him, but that wasn’t on display during the interview. I don’t think he even brought up her deafness and he had […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-7V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}