{"id":4338,"date":"2005-05-12T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2005-05-12T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T21:42:00","slug":"ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4338","title":{"rendered":"Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ray.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If Ray Charles had been a Hollywood rather than a music star, <em>Ray<\/em> would have cleaned up at this year&#8217;s Oscars. Instead, Clint Eastwood\u2019s <em> Million Dollar Baby<\/em> and Martin Sorcese\u2019s <em>Aviator<\/em> about Hollywood director and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes won five and four Oscars respectively. <em>Ray<\/em> is a labor of love and a much better film than both <em>Million Dollar Baby<\/em>  and <em>Aviator<\/em>. Every scene is crafted with thoughtfulness and attention to details. <em>Ray<\/em> is wonderful in every regard and will be the yardstick for any future biographical drama. The only saving grace for the Academy of Motion pictures is that it gave Jamie Fox an Oscar for Best Actor. Fox&#8217;s performance is stunning and an extravagant pleasure to watch. Go see and hear <em>Ray<\/em>. You will experience an extraordinary motion picture event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Ray Charles had been a Hollywood rather than a music star, Ray would have cleaned up at this year&#8217;s Oscars. Instead, Clint Eastwood\u2019s Million <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4338\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ray.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}