{"id":26448,"date":"2017-08-04T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/?p=26448"},"modified":"2017-08-03T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T21:02:21","slug":"tinker-tailor-soldier-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/04\/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I don&#8217;t want to have to start a Fizzy obituary page but Hywel Bennett died yesterday. The beloved and I were discussing him on Sunday after seeing Dunkirk. After Tom Hardy&#8217;s excellent eyebrow acting, we moved on to Gary Oldman acting with his ears in the 2011 version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. And, then I said that as much as loved Tom Hardy as Ricki Tarr, to me Hywel Bennett did it better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then I was lost in a 15 minute monologue about the joy of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. I love the novel. I love the BBC series with Alec Guinness, I love the film, I love BBC radio adaptation with Simon Russell Beale. I can&#8217;t think of any other work that I love so completely, in all formats. I think that is the genius of John Le Carr\u00e9 and what he inspires in actors and film makers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is pick your medium and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I don&#8217;t want to have to start a Fizzy obituary page but Hywel Bennett died yesterday. The beloved and I were discussing him on Sunday after seeing Dunkirk. After Tom Hardy&#8217;s excellent eyebrow acting, we moved on to Gary Oldman acting with his ears in the 2011 version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. And, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22,56],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tinker-tailor.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26450,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions\/26450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}