{"id":451,"date":"2007-06-22T00:42:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T04:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/22\/remembering-andy-jones\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T04:42:15","slug":"remembering-andy-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/22\/remembering-andy-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Andy Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Jones3.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/fishbowlLA\/original\/Andy Jones3.JPG\" width=\"167\" height=\"252\" align=left hspace=\"7\" \/>I was saddened to hear this afternoon about the death of entertainment journalist Andy Jones, who suffered a fatal heart attack at a press screening of the new Angelina Jolie film <i>A Mighty Heart<\/i>. I hadn&#8217;t been in touch with Andy in far too long a time, but I wouldn&#8217;t be doing the things I do if it weren&#8217;t for him&#8212;at least nowhere near the way I&#8217;m doing them. Back in &#8217;96, Andy was kind enough to hire me as a freelancer for <i>Spiv<\/i>, a pop culture site that the folks at Turner were putting together when every media conglomerate decided they needed to have a webzine. Later, when they killed off most of <i>Spiv<\/i> and kept only the film section, <i>Rough Cut<\/i>, he made sure that I was tapped to do indie film reviews and cover film festivals in San Francisco. I even got to do an occasional interview with film historians like David Thomson&#8212;the site is long gone, but you might be able to find some of that stuff in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/web\/web.php\">Internet Archive<\/a> if you look hard enough. Anyway, Andy&#8217;s support enabled me to hone my chops as a reviewer and interviewer, and we used to talk on the phone a lot, and the one time I met him, just as I was leaving the West Coast for New York, he was so much fun that I&#8217;m sorry we never got around to doing it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to hear this afternoon about the death of entertainment journalist Andy Jones, who suffered a fatal heart attack at a press screening of the new Angelina Jolie film A Mighty Heart. I hadn&#8217;t been in touch with Andy in far too long a time, but I wouldn&#8217;t be doing the things I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}