{"id":117397,"date":"2017-03-06T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117397"},"modified":"2017-03-06T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T20:57:14","slug":"tcms-robert-osborne-passes-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117397","title":{"rendered":"TCM&#8217;s Robert Osborne, passes, 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-117398\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OsborneRobert-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OsborneRobert-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OsborneRobert-241x175.jpg 241w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OsborneRobert.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Robert Osborne, the genial face of Turner Classic Movies and a walking encyclopedia of classic Hollywood, has died. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Dorian, general manager of TCM, (CSi Cable 31)\u00a0 announced Osborne&#8217;s death Monday. A publicist for the network said he passed away Monday in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Osborne, who began his career as an actor, was a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter. He was the on-air host of Ted Turner&#8217;s fledgling classic movie network from its inception in 1994. He was there from the start, to introduce &#8220;Gone With the Wind,&#8221; and remained Turner Classic&#8217;s primary &#8212; and often sole &#8212; host since.<\/p>\n<p>For TCM viewers, Osborne was a constant and calming presence. He introduced films with bits of history and trivia, and conducted interviews with stars about their favorite old films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Robert Osborne, the genial face of Turner Classic Movies and a walking encyclopedia of classic Hollywood, has died. He was 84. Jennifer Dorian, general manager of TCM, (CSi Cable 31)\u00a0 announced Osborne&#8217;s death Monday. A publicist for the network said he passed away Monday in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117399,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117397\/revisions\/117399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}