{"id":112,"date":"2009-09-03T06:04:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T06:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2017-01-14T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T17:52:02","slug":"new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/reviews-2\/leon-the-pig-farmer-2\/new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW YORK TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 1994<\/p>\n<p><i>Stephen Holden<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>LEON THE PIG FARMER<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>1993. Fox Lorber. $89.98 98 minutes. No rating<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"justify\">\n<p class=\"justify\">Never quite comfortable with his position in high-powered London Jewish society, Leon Geller (Mark Frankel) looks for his real roots and discovers that through a mix-up during artificial insemination he is really the son of a pig farmer named Brian Chadwick of Lower Dinthorpe, Yorkshire. Brian, a gentle, open fellow, and his wife, Yvonne, ply Leon with chicken soup and try to think Jewish by reading &#8220;Portnoy&#8217;s Complaint&#8221; and &#8220;The Joy of Yiddish&#8221;. In this vein, Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor&#8217;s satire has it&#8217;s witty moments, but the joke is &#8220;far from uproarious because of the deadpan absurdist style in which it&#8217;s told.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions\/2031"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markfrankelfansite.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}