{"id":114448,"date":"2016-03-01T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T11:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/114448\/cool-hand-luke-actor-george-kennedy-dies-on-oscar-sunday\/"},"modified":"2016-03-01T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T11:20:47","slug":"cool-hand-luke-actor-george-kennedy-dies-on-oscar-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/03\/01\/cool-hand-luke-actor-george-kennedy-dies-on-oscar-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Hand Luke actor George Kennedy dies on Oscar Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-bodyparagraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt 0cm\">His break through role was <em>Cool Hand Luke\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>in which he played Dragline, a convict who resists, and then becomes friendly with, Paul Newman&#8217;s Luke character.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The marvelous thing about that movie was that as my part progressed, I changed from a bad guy to a good guy,&#8221; Kennedy said in 1978.\u00a0&#8220;The moguls in Hollywood must have said, &#8216;Hey, this fellow can do something besides be a bad guy.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>His performance won him an Oscar for best supporting actor.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hnfIxXxMl94' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='021c1a6bf3b623991d3c7722d0c1db70'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Kennedy, the character actor known for playing cops, soldiers and blue-collar authority figures in such films as Cool Hand Luke,\u00a0Airport and the Naked Gun, has died aged 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":114449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10107,10108,10109],"class_list":["post-114448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-cool-hand-luke","tag-george-kennedy-dies","tag-oscar-sunday"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Cool Hand Luke","George Kennedy dies","Oscar Sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}