{"id":1416,"date":"2003-07-07T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-07T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2021-05-23T01:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T05:51:15","slug":"yes-sir-mr-mayer-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/07\/yes-sir-mr-mayer-sir\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Yes sir, Mr Mayer, sir!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/moviesbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Want to be a movie mogul?  According to an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/PeopleNews\/2003\/20030707\">IMDB<\/a>:<blockquote align=\"justify\" style=\"border: 2px solid #555;\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Ethan Hawke is offering fans the chance to produce his new movie <i>Billy Dead<\/i>. The enterprising hunk is struggling to finance the project, about a troubled working-class Michigan family, and so he has turned to filmgoers for help. Movie fans are being offered the chance to buy up 900,000 shares of stock for just $8.75 each, so Hawke can raise the $8 million he needs to make the project. If the idea is a success, it will be the first time a film has been financed in such a fashion.<\/font><\/blockquote>&nbsp; &nbsp; IMDB doesn&#8217;t give the link, but you can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilian.com\/offerings\/billydead\/index.cfm\">Civilian.com<\/a> if you wish to read an investment prospectus. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilian.com\/offerings\/billydead\/tombstone.cfm\">announcement<\/a> is also available for perusal.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Want to be a movie mogul? According to an article on IMDB: Ethan Hawke is offering fans the chance to produce his new movie Billy Dead. The enterprising hunk is struggling to finance the project, about a troubled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/07\/yes-sir-mr-mayer-sir\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}