{"id":1860,"date":"2005-01-17T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2018-07-28T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T15:24:05","slug":"1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/1860\/","title":{"rendered":"So-Called Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a CNN.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/01\/14\/review.company\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">film review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> In the film &#8220;In Good Company,&#8221; Dennis Quaid&#8217;s character, ad executive Dan Foreman, lives out a fear hidden inside millions of American men and women over 50 &#8212; losing their job just when they are hitting their stride professionally.<\/p>\n<p>Foreman has played by the rules all his life and is living the <b>so-called<\/b> American Dream. He&#8217;s respected by peers and clients as the head of ad sales for a weekly New York-based sports magazine. He has a loving wife, Ann, played beautifully by Marg Helgenberger (&#8220;Erin Brockovich,&#8221; TV&#8217;s &#8220;CSI&#8221;) and two daughters, the oldest of which, Alex (Scarlett Johansson), is just entering New York University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is that a sneer towards the values of good family, working hard, living quietly?  Why, I think it is!  Don&#8217;t the plebes know the American dream involves a third floor walk-up in Manhattan, foreign film festivals, and endless nights of trying to score at bars and nightclubs with anemic europhile women?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a CNN.com film review: In the film &#8220;In Good Company,&#8221; Dennis Quaid&#8217;s character, ad executive Dan Foreman, lives out a fear hidden inside millions of American men and women over 50 &#8212; losing their job just when they are hitting their stride professionally. Foreman has played by the rules all his life and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20685,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/20685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}