{"id":5848,"date":"2023-01-14T20:44:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2023-01-14T20:44:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:44:34","slug":"updikes-three-witches-make-third-on-this-best-of-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/01\/14\/updikes-three-witches-make-third-on-this-best-of-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike&#8217;s three witches make third on this best-of list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A website named Otakukart just published an article by Arnab Ray on the <a href=\"https:\/\/otakukart.com\/240515\/45-best-magical-witch-movies-that-you-should-know\/\">&#8220;45 Best Magical Witch Movies That You Should know,&#8221;<\/a> and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, George Miller&#8217;s 1987 adaptation of John Updike&#8217;s <em>The Witches of Eastwick<\/em> was the third film listed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When a desire comes true at a price, and a male protagonist enters their lives, three lonely and sex-deprived women (Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer), who have all lost their spouses, meet together once a week for drinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This 1987 dark fantasy-<a href=\"https:\/\/otakukart.com\/085410\/best-classic-comedy-movies-of-all-time-to-watch-in-2021\/\">comedy movie<\/a>, which George Miller directed, is based on a novel written by John Updike. The movie is very fun to watch and will never leave you bored for the sake of establishing plot points.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-7.35.57-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-7.35.57-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-7.35.57-PM.png 735w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-7.35.57-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-7.35.57-PM-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A website named Otakukart just published an article by Arnab Ray on the &#8220;45 Best Magical Witch Movies That You Should know,&#8221; and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, George Miller&#8217;s 1987 adaptation of John Updike&#8217;s The Witches of Eastwick was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/01\/14\/updikes-three-witches-make-third-on-this-best-of-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5850,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}