{"id":20242,"date":"2018-04-20T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20242"},"modified":"2018-04-13T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T20:26:00","slug":"9-altogether-ooky-facts-about-john-astin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20242","title":{"rendered":"9 Altogether Ooky Facts About John Astin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z042018johnastin_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"413\" \/><br \/>\nMe-TV presents <a href=\"https:\/\/metv.com\/lists\/9-all-together-ooky-facts-about-john-astin\">9 Altogether Ooky Facts About John Astin<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"content-list-item-title\">3.\u00a0He was nominated for an Oscar\u2026<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-list-item-img\" src=\"https:\/\/metvcdn.metv.com\/ckf9J-1490899739-8150-list_items-oscar.jpg\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0Image: MGM Television<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2026but it wasn&#8217;t for acting. Astin directed the 1968 short film\u00a0<em>Prelude.\u00a0<\/em>It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-list-item clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"content-list-item-title\">4.\u00a0He appeared in &#8216;West Side Story.&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-list-item-img\" src=\"https:\/\/metvcdn.metv.com\/rFBNf-1490899418-8151-list_items-west_side_story.jpg\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0Image: United Artists<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 1961 musical blockbuster starred box office heavyweights like Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno, but it also featured an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0040014\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">uncredited<\/a>\u00a0appearance by Astin. The actor appeared as the character Glad Hand, the social worker who kicks off the &#8220;Mambo&#8221; dance sequence in the gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"content-list-item clearfix\">\n<blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"content-list-item-title\">5.\u00a0He appeared as The Riddler on &#8216;Batman.&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-list-item-img\" src=\"https:\/\/metvcdn.metv.com\/jW0wm-1490899568-8152-list_items-riddler.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most people associate the devious villain with Frank Gorshin. But Astin also put on the green tights and purple mask in the season two episodes &#8220;Batman&#8217;s Anniversary&#8221; and &#8220;A Riddling Controversy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me-TV presents 9 Altogether Ooky Facts About John Astin.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 3.\u00a0He was nominated for an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,63,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242","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=20242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20243,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242\/revisions\/20243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}