{"id":14719,"date":"2016-02-02T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14719"},"modified":"2016-01-30T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:04:58","slug":"a-conversation-with-streets-of-fire-co-writer-larry-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14719","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with &#8220;Streets of Fire&#8221; Co-Writer Larry Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z020216streetsoffire_oralhistory.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"753\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Streets of Fire<\/strong><\/em> is a movie that I truly enjoy. \u00a0<em><strong>Streets of Fire<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0didn&#8217;t receive great reviews and box office when first released, but over the years I&#8217;ve met more people who liked it than not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\" target=\"_blank\">\/Film<\/a><\/strong> posted <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/streets-of-fire-oral-history\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Conversation with <em>Streets of Fire<\/em> Co-Writer Larry Gross<\/a><\/strong> which presents an oral history of sorts. \u00a0The article is definitely a read for <em><strong>Streets of Fire<\/strong><\/em> or movie fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How <em><strong>Streets of Fire<\/strong><\/em> came together to create an <em>alternate universe &#8211; comic book movie not based on any comic book &#8211; rock and roll fable &#8211; musical<\/em> is interesting. I particularly enjoyed reading who they wanted and just missed signing for the leads [<strong>Tom Cruise<\/strong> and <strong>Darryl Hannah<\/strong>]. \u00a0Can you imagine <strong>Tom Cruise<\/strong> as <strong>Tom Cody<\/strong> or some of the others who auditioned for the part [<strong>Eric Roberts, Patrick Swayze, Willem Dafoe<\/strong>]? \u00a0Although the movie tested well, the release fell flat and that makes for interesting behind-the-scenes reading as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So what are you waiting for? \u00a0Click over and enjoy <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/streets-of-fire-oral-history\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Conversation with Streets of Fire Co-Writer Larry Gross<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streets of Fire is a movie that I truly enjoy. \u00a0Streets of Fire\u00a0didn&#8217;t receive great reviews and box office when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14722,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions\/14722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}