{"id":1856,"date":"2017-08-22T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2017-08-22T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:14:42","slug":"bruce-campbell-columbus-and-the-evil-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Campbell: Columbus and the Evil Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6d\/Bruce_Campbell_2011.jpg\" alt=\"By Tony Shek (Bruce Campbell) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>Actor, producer, and author Bruce Campbell has been in a lot of movies that I&#8217;ve enjoyed, like the Evil Dead movie franchise, which is now a TV show on Starz Channel (Ash vs. Evil Dead). But perhaps my favorite is Bubba Ho-Tep, in which Campbell stars as an aged Elvis Presley confined to a retirement home and menaced by an ancient Egyptian mummy. It has all the usual elements of a Bruce Campbell production: off-kilter premise, quotable dialogue, supernatural beings. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>You can catch Bruce in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookloft.com\/\">Columbus at the Book Loft<\/a> on Saturday, August 26, when he&#8217;ll\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">discuss and sign his new book <em>Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B-Movie Actor<\/em>. This is the follow-up to <em>If Chins Could kill:<\/em><em>Confessions of a B-Movie Actor<\/em>\u00a0and a companion to<em> Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5630\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1856-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Craft_2017-8-22.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Craft_2017-8-22.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Craft_2017-8-22.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Craft_2017-8-22.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1856-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Craft_2017-8-22.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2017-8-22.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor, producer, and author Bruce Campbell has been in a lot of movies that I&#8217;ve enjoyed, like the Evil Dead movie franchise, which is now a TV show on Starz Channel (Ash vs. Evil Dead). But perhaps my favorite is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1856\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-craft-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}