{"id":281,"date":"2006-03-12T04:39:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T04:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2006-03-12T04:39:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T04:39:09","slug":"patience-and-persistence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Patience and Persistence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not normally one for made-for-TV movies.  However, on a rainy Sunday, when I see look through the TV guide and see a movie that I have never heard but has a pedigree cast that includes William H Macy, Helen Mirren and Kathy Baker, I&#8217;m willing to take a chance.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0274468\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9RG9vciBUbyBEb29yfGZ0PTF8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=1;ft=28;fm=1\">Door To Door<\/a> turned out to be a great film with a tour de force performance from co-writer Bill Macy as Bill Porter, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watkinsonline.com\/default.cfm?storyid=122\">Watkins<\/a> door to door salesman who has cerebral palsy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/macyporter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The film tracks the change in American culture and values in the second half of the 20th century through the true story of Porter&#8217;s life &#8211; one of patience and persistance and the value of the human spirit in an increasingly insular society.   What could have easily been a mawkish and manipulative movie was, in fact, a great film with assured performances from all concerned.   I encourage you to seek it out or failing that, you can read more at billporter.com or (as I am going to do) buying the book &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/ngzh\">Ten Things I Learned From Bill Porter<\/a>&#8216;.  Interestingly Bill Macy&#8217;s wife, Felicity Huffman, plays a small supporting role in the movie &#8211; she is now better known for her starring role as Lynette in &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not normally one for made-for-TV movies. However, on a rainy Sunday, when I see look through the TV guide and see a movie that I have never heard but has a pedigree cast that includes William H Macy, Helen Mirren and Kathy Baker, I&#8217;m willing to take a chance. Door To Door turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}