{"id":1120,"date":"2015-07-06T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2015-07-06T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T16:08:09","slug":"berkley-revisits-her-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/berkley-revisits-her-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkley Revisits Her Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, I can&#8217;t be everywhere.\u00a0 If I could, I would certainly not have missed last week&#8217;s screening of <strong><em>Showgirls<\/em><\/strong> at the <em>Hollywood<\/em> <em>Forever<\/em> <em>Cemetery<\/em> &#8211; especially since it was attended by Nomi herself, <strong>Elizabeth Berkley<\/strong>.\u00a0 Although <strong><em>Showgirls<\/em><\/strong> has become a gay cult classic, it is also considered one of the worst movies ever made and is regarded as putting the nail in Elizabeth Berkley&#8217;s burgeoning film career &#8211; it&#8217;s her <strong><em>Mommie Dearest<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re told this was Berkley&#8217;s first appearance at a screening in 20 years and she was greeted as a goddess (take a hint, Faye).\u00a0 As luck would have it, the screening took place the day after the <em>Supreme Court <\/em>ruled in favor of gay marriage.\u00a0 So it was a celebratory mood all around, with Berkley saying, &#8220;I wanna just start this incredible night off by just acknowledging what a celebration tonight is on the heels of such a monumental, incredible win last night.\u00a0 Love wins!&#8221;\u00a0 She then struck a Nomi pose, and the audience erupted &#8211; as you&#8217;ll see in the video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BillyMasters.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, I can&#8217;t be everywhere.\u00a0 If I could, I would certainly not have missed last week&#8217;s screening of Showgirls at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery &#8211; especially since it was attended by Nomi herself, Elizabeth Berkley.\u00a0 Although Showgirls has become a gay cult classic, it is also considered one of the worst movies ever made and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}