{"id":46,"date":"2018-07-10T01:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T01:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=46"},"modified":"2018-07-10T01:03:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T01:03:30","slug":"004-ask-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2018\/07\/10\/004-ask-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"004 &#8211; Ask the Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s that? You&#8217;re not familiar with the 2006 romantic drama\u00a0<em>Ask the Dust<\/em>? Where a handsome young writer played by Colin Farrell moves to California, negs the hell out of waitress Salma Hayek, and begins a torrid love affair amid the dusty environs of the Great Depression? That&#8217;s probably because the early Oscar buzz on this one \u2014 goosed by the presence of writer\/director Robert Towne (<em>Chinatown<\/em>) \u2014 died a swift death. Let&#8217;s talk about it!<\/p>\n<p>Topics include Salma Hayek&#8217;s very emotional 2006, whether Colin Farrell&#8217;s sex tape made him look good or bad, and whatever the hell Idina Menzel was doing here (and which Looney Tunes character she reminded us of).<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5976\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-46-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_004_Ask_the_Dust.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_004_Ask_the_Dust.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_004_Ask_the_Dust.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_004_Ask_the_Dust.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=46-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_004_Ask_the_Dust.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_004_Ask_the_Dust.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s that? You&#8217;re not familiar with the 2006 romantic drama\u00a0Ask the Dust? Where a handsome young writer played by Colin Farrell moves to California, negs the hell out of waitress Salma Hayek, and begins a torrid love affair amid the dusty environs of the Great Depression? That&#8217;s probably because the early Oscar buzz on this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2018\/07\/10\/004-ask-the-dust\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;004 &#8211; Ask the Dust&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,4,34,12,39,3,6,42,41,40],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-awards","tag-best-actor","tag-best-actress","tag-colin-farrell","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-paramount-classics","tag-robert-towne","tag-salma-hayek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}