{"id":13437,"date":"2012-05-10T19:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T23:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13437"},"modified":"2012-05-11T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T11:31:09","slug":"last-man-standing-before-they-were-stars-in-rock-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-before-they-were-stars-in-rock-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Before They Were Stars, in Rock Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a <em>Last Man Standing<\/em> contest. You know how it works: if you have a submission, post it as a response. One submission per post, please. You may not respond twice in a row. The last man standing when all answers have been exhausted or time is up wins the RTH no-prize!<\/p>\n<p>The rules:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>Present a rock video with an acting appearance by someone who was not yet well-known as an actor but would become one later.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll take off the table Springsteen&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing in the Dark,&#8221; featuring an unknown Courteney Cox, as the obvious example.<\/li>\n<li>The Sting Rule: Band members or other already-well-known non-actors or celebrities who later turned to acting are <em>ineligible<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The Liv Tyler Rule: Band members&#8217; immediate family are <em>ineligible<\/em>. And while we&#8217;re on the subject of Aerosmith, let&#8217;s just make <em>all Bon Jovi videos ineligible<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4vJM4L2D2U?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>To start things off, I give you \u00a0the video for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers&#8217; &#8220;Swingin,'&#8221; from their 1999 album\u00a0<em>Echo<\/em>, featuring\u00a0<strong>Robin Tunney<\/strong>, now a lead actor in the popular TV show <em>The Mentalist<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a Last Man Standing contest. You know how it works: if you have a submission, post it as a response. One submission per post, please. You may not respond twice in a row. The last man standing when all answers have been exhausted or time is up wins the RTH no-prize! The <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-before-they-were-stars-in-rock-video\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1867,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1867"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}