{"id":2879,"date":"2007-10-27T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T16:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/we_hear_tom_arnold_may_be_available_in_mid-2008_but_im_really_holding_out_for_alf_to_make_his_triumphal_return_to_the_spotlight.html"},"modified":"2007-10-27T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T16:16:28","slug":"we_hear_tom_arn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/we_hear_tom_arn.html","title":{"rendered":"We Hear Tom Arnold* May Be Available In Mid-2008, But I&#8217;m Really Holding Out For Alf To Make His Triumphal Return To The Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing we need, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10272007\/news\/regionalnews\/from_norm_to_norma.htm\">more overweight 1980s sitcom stars in the role of Edna Turnblad in Hairspray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[George] Wendt, who played Norm Peterson . . . on &#8220;Cheers&#8221; for a decade, fills out a cast that includes such other big names as former *NSYNC boy-band member Lance Bass and former &#8220;Hollywood Square&#8221; Jim J. Bullock.<\/p>\n<p>Wendt follows in the footsteps of other heavyweights who played Edna, including John Travolta who starred in this year&#8217;s movie-musical version and legendary drag actor Divine, who starred in John Water&#8217;s original 1988 film.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Since when did &#8220;Jim&#8221; J. Bullock start using vowels? Or am I just not a big enough Jim J. Bullock fan?)<\/p>\n<p>*Sorry, dude &#8212; I didn&#8217;t realize how much weight you lost since the early &#8217;90s &#8212; you look good, by the by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one thing we need, it&#8217;s more overweight 1980s sitcom stars in the role of Edna Turnblad in Hairspray: [George] Wendt, who played Norm Peterson . . . on &#8220;Cheers&#8221; for a decade, fills out a cast that includes such other big names as former *NSYNC boy-band member Lance Bass and former &#8220;Hollywood Square&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap_your_pants_say_yeah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}