{"id":9358,"date":"2011-11-10T11:20:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:31:27","slug":"earl-the-pearl-versus-the-philosoraptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/11\/10\/earl-the-pearl-versus-the-philosoraptors\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl The Pearl Versus The Philosoraptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 1971 I wrote and shot a scene for Annie Hall involving the Knicks and Earl The Pearl. I was extolling the concept of the physical over the cerebral, so I wrote a fantasy basketball game in which all the great thinkers of history &#8211; Kant and Nietzsche and Kierkegaard &#8211; played against the Knicks. I cast actors who looked like those philosophers to play those roles and they played against the real Knicks. We used the players on the team at that time including Earl, Bill Bradley and Walt Frazier, and we shot it inside Madison Square Garden after the last game of the season. Of course the Knicks were smooth and beat the philosophers easily; all their cerebration was impotent against the Knicks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via greatest blog ever, <a href=\"http:\/\/spikeleeandwoodyallen.tumblr.com\/\">Spike Lee and Woody Allen at Knicks Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971 I wrote and shot a scene for Annie Hall involving the Knicks and Earl The Pearl. I was extolling the concept of the physical over the cerebral, so I wrote a fantasy basketball game in which all the great thinkers of history &#8211; Kant and Nietzsche and Kierkegaard &#8211; played against the Knicks. 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