{"id":40,"date":"2005-09-17T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:35:11","slug":"sid-nancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/sid-nancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid & Nancy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And now to raise the gander of another friend. Sorry, Kevin, but I’m still not much of an Alex Cox fan. I can’t say that Sid & Nancy<\/em>, his look into the lives of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, spoke to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But no doubt, Gary Oldman<\/a> is superb (the degree to which he disappears into roles is actually a bit scary – did anybody besides me not even recognize him in Hannibal<\/em> and The Contender<\/em> until the end credits rolled?). And some of the dialogue is choice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What’s happened to Jonny?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Johnny got beat up by fascists.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe like Kurt & Courtney<\/a><\/em>, my Punk Appreciation Deficiency Syndrome colored my response the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now to raise the gander of another friend. Sorry, Kevin, but I’m still not much of an Alex Cox fan. I can’t say that Sid & Nancy, his look into the lives of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, spoke to me. 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