{"id":345561,"date":"2018-01-26T21:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-genuine-actor-francesco-serpico\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:20:41","slug":"a-genuine-actor-francesco-serpico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-genuine-actor-francesco-serpico\/","title":{"rendered":"A Genuine Actor: Francesco Serpico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are unconscious actors among them and involuntary actors; the genuine are always rare, especially genuine actors.<br \/>\u2013 Friedrich Nietzsche, <em>Thus Spoke Zarathustra<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Any artist [person] who goes in for being famous in our society must know that it is not he who will become famous, but someone else under his name, someone who will eventually escape him and perhaps someday will kill the true artist [person] in him.<br \/>\u2013 Albert Camus, \u201cCreate Dangerously\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It ain\u2019t me you\u2019re lookin for, babe.<br \/>\u2013 Bob Dylan, \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Me, Babe:,<em> Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Enter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The set was real but illusionary: A legendary old New England hotel dressed festively for Christmas and the holiday season.\u00a0 Norman Rockwell\u2019s magical realism. The lobby full with merriment, the cozy fire dancing to the sweet sound of violin and piano Christmas music mixed with a subtle alcoholic fragrance.\u00a0 Main Street U.S.A.\u00a0 Snow on the street and the classic strains of \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d in the inner air.\u00a0 A mythic setting for meeting a legendary actor.<\/p>\n<p>But as I entered the dimly lit set, the legend was nowhere to be seen.\u00a0 I approached the spot where the musicians were playing and didn\u2019t see him in the room opposite.\u00a0 Then, as I was greeting two actors with bit parts that I knew (unconscious actors, I should add), out of the shadows came a laughing Russian spy obviously dressed as a Russian spy, one red star on his hat, walking stick in hand.\u00a0 He and I were there to have a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/a-genuine-actor-francesco-serpico\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are unconscious actors among them and involuntary actors; the genuine are always rare, especially genuine actors.\u2013 Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Any artist [person] who goes in for being famous in our society must know that it is not he who will become famous, but someone else under his name, someone who will eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}