{"id":4594,"date":"2008-11-01T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2008-11-01T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:21:51","slug":"good-night-and-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4594","title":{"rendered":"Good Night, and Good Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"85\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/good_night_and_good_luck.jpeg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> At the Oscars award show not long after  <i>Good Night, and Good Luck<\/i> came out in 2005, the host made a joke about the long-term bachelor George Clooney who directed and starred in the film.&nbsp; It went something like this:<\/p>\n<p>This low budget film, shot almost entirely in the room where the news program was filmed, does a very poor job in explaining what McCarthyism was all about. Like many people, I am a fan of granting people second chances. But I am not going to watch a third movie directed by Clooney. <\/p>\n<p><b>George Clooney says &#8220;Good Night, and Good Luck&#8221; to  Sarah Larson<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By Alexis Chiu (People Magazine)<\/p>\n<p>After a Whirlwind Year of Romance, Red Carpets and a Motorcycle Mishap, George Clooney &amp; Sarah Larson Go Their Separate Ways<\/p>\n<p>At the opening of the Palms Place hotel in Las Vegas on May 31, Sarah Larson spent the night laughing with pals, enjoying vodka cocktails and dancing in the party&#8217;s VIP area. Her solo outing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Oscars award show not long after Good Night, and Good Luck came out in 2005, the host made a joke about the long-term <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4594\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/good_night_and_good_luck.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"85\" height=\"130\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","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=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}