{"id":2757,"date":"2021-05-01T10:39:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T17:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2021-05-01T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T17:39:18","slug":"monte-hellman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"Monte Hellman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2758\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p-02.jpg 750w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p-02-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>I just heard Monte Hellman has passed on to the next dimension. God Speed! I met him a few times and he was a very nice guy. One time he hosted a readsing of a script by Dennis Bartok at his Hollywood Hills Home, which was a real nice thing for him to do. I used to know Rudy Wurlitzer, a good friend of Monte&#8217;s and the screenwriter of Monte&#8217;s seminal Road Movie Two Lane Blacktop. the film that gave Lew Wasserman nightmares. I met Rudy through Bob Downey. When I mentioned Rudy to Monte, he broke out in a smile and said&#8221;I talk to him everyday.&#8221; Monte, I hope you are happy wherever you are, talking film with the greats up there in Film Heaven. Here&#8217;s the trailer for 2LBT<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Official MASTERS OF CINEMA trailer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q4onX6ZDsZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I just heard Monte Hellman has passed on to the next dimension. God Speed! I met him a few times and he was a very nice guy. One time he hosted a readsing of a script by Dennis Bartok at his Hollywood Hills Home, which was a real nice thing for him to do. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}