{"id":128,"date":"2010-03-02T19:49:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T19:49:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-01T00:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:53:33","slug":"quentin-tarantino-benefactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/03\/02\/quentin-tarantino-benefactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino, Benefactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quentin Tarantino has been called many things in Los Angeles. But the moniker &#8220;home town hero&#8221; may fit best.&nbsp; On February, 19, 2010, the Hollywood Reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3i6baa5818ddcc27e15e669ccb81a30ecf?pn=1\">shared the news<\/a> that&nbsp; Tarantino had provided financial aid to the New Beverly revival theater, and L.A. landmark, when it was in danger of closing.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; New Beverly&#8217;s owners had a right of first refusal\/negotiation option to buy the building themselves but had difficulty raising the cash. When its landlord announced that it had found a willing buyer for the building, Tarantino, who had been semi-quietly paying the theater&#8217;s $5,000 rent since 2007,&nbsp; stepped in and purchased the building outright.<\/p>\n<p>Like many native Angelenos, Tarantino had spent formative years at the New Beverly, absorbing classics and hard to find flicks. It&#8217;s nice to know that those trips to the New Beverly instilled an appreciation for old theaters. Perhaps he&#8217;s saved the L.A. theater in recompense for blowing one up in &#8220;Inglourious Basterds.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-128\" data-postid=\"128\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-128 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quentin Tarantino has been called many things in Los Angeles. But the moniker &#8220;home town hero&#8221; may fit best.&nbsp; On February, 19, 2010, the Hollywood Reporter shared the news that&nbsp; Tarantino had provided financial aid to the New Beverly revival theater, and L.A. landmark, when it was in danger of closing.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; New Beverly&#8217;s owners had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}