{"id":29005,"date":"2022-02-14T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29005"},"modified":"2022-02-14T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:27:11","slug":"rip-ivan-reitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29005","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Ivan Reitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Director_Ivan_Reitman,_actor_Eugene_Levy_and_producer_Daniel_Goldberg_attend_The_Canadian_Film_Centre_cocktail_reception_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z021422rip_ivan_reitman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ivan Reitman, writer, director and producer, died in his sleep on February 12th at the age of 75.\u00a0 No cause of death was been given.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ivan Reitman is best known for directing the megahit <em>Ghostbusters<\/em>, but he also directed 24 other films including: <em>Meatballs, Stripes, Twins<\/em> and <em>Kindergarten Cop<\/em>.\u00a0 Mr. Reitman also served as a producer on over 60 films including: <em>National Lampoon&#8217;s Animal House, Ghostbusters, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot<\/em> and <em>Beethoven<\/em> to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I first became aware of Ivan Reitman because of his involvement with <em>Animal House<\/em>.\u00a0 A year later I saw <em>Meatballs<\/em>, my favorite Ivan Reitman directed film, on it&#8217;s initial release.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting that Ivan Reitman got his start producing low budget horror films like <em>Cannibal Girls, Shivers, The House by the Lake<\/em> and <em>Rabid<\/em> (directed by David Cronenberg and starring Marilyn Chambers) before he found his sweet spot with comedies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to Ivan Reitman&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Reitman, writer, director and producer, died in his sleep on February 12th at the age of 75.\u00a0 No cause<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[17,53,63,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29005","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=29005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29006,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29005\/revisions\/29006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}