{"id":1298,"date":"2016-01-12T18:19:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T10:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/12\/this-is-how-jim-henson-asked-david-bowie-to-appear-in-labyrinth\/"},"modified":"2016-01-12T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T10:19:23","slug":"this-is-how-jim-henson-asked-david-bowie-to-appear-in-labyrinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/12\/this-is-how-jim-henson-asked-david-bowie-to-appear-in-labyrinth\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how Jim Henson asked David Bowie to appear in 'Labyrinth'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON \u2014 For a particular generation, David Bowie’s performance as Jareth the Goblin King in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth<\/em> was up there among his finest hours.<\/p>\n

The hair, the stare, the brows – everything about his role in the 1986 fantasy film has gone down in history.<\/p>\n

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See also: 15 necessary life lessons that David Bowie taught us in ‘Labyrinth’<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This week, following the sad news that David Bowie passed away aged 69<\/a>, fans have been re-sharing a note Henson sent to Bowie asking him to be in the film.<\/p>\n

Sending Bowie a rough version of the script, which he admits “needs a bit of polishing,” Henson says he’s looking forward to hearing his response, adding, “you would be wonderful in this film.” Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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LONDON \u2014 For a particular generation, David Bowie’s performance as Jareth the Goblin King in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth was up there among his finest hours. The hair, the stare, the brows – everything about his role in the 1986 fantasy … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,858,941,800,760],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-jim-henson","tag-music","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}