{"id":10,"date":"2007-01-07T17:25:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T22:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/10"},"modified":"2008-11-16T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T22:35:20","slug":"ernest-and-bertram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/10","title":{"rendered":"Ernest and Bertram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, as long as I’m already being blocked by the filter<\/a>, I may as well share this with you.<\/p>\n

It’s an eight-minute adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play The Children’s Hour<\/em><\/a> starring Ernie and Bert from Sesame Street<\/em>. What more needs to be said?<\/p>\n

(Warning: Adult Language and Content)<\/p>\n

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This film was shown at Sundance in 2002 to great acclaim, but Sesame Workshop’s lawyers put the kibosh<\/a> on it, and it was pulled from release.<\/p>\n

For another fascinating story about Bert, check out the Bert Is Evil<\/a> page of one of my all-time favorite websites, Snopes.com<\/a>, to find out how Bert accidentally ended up at an anti-American protest rally in Bangladesh:<\/p>\n

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The Osama bin Laden poster – with the muppet – was displayed at rallies by pro-bin Laden protesters and appeared in photographs carried by news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The technology of today has an incredible potential to make the physical distances between us much less of a barrier. Other distances between us may take some more time.\n<\/p>\n

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Well, as long as I’m already being blocked by the filter, I may as well share this with you. It’s an eight-minute adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play The Children’s Hour starring Ernie and Bert from Sesame Street. What more needs to be said? (Warning: Adult Language and Content) This film was shown at Sundance in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41,6,13,43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-information-literacy","category-international","category-technology","category-the-letter-y","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}