{"id":12540,"date":"2020-07-27T01:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=12540"},"modified":"2020-07-27T01:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:40:40","slug":"eichner-plays-lynde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/eichner-plays-lynde\/","title":{"rendered":"Eichner Plays Lynde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Billy Eichner <\/strong>has announced plans to make a biopic about <strong>Paul Lynde <\/strong>called <strong><em>Man in a Box<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; In announcing the project, Eichner made another pronouncement.&nbsp; \u201cGay actors are never, hardly ever, I should say, allowed to play our own gay icons.&nbsp; <strong>Harvey Milk<\/strong>, <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong>, <strong>Elton John<\/strong>.&nbsp; Where are the gay actors?&nbsp; And it\u2019s not to take anything away from those performances, which were excellent.&nbsp; But why don\u2019t we get to tell our own stories?&nbsp; I don\u2019t think there needs to be a rule, like straight actors can never play gay, but it is so lopsided.&nbsp; It never works in the other direction.&nbsp; And we\u2019re not even allowed to play our own heroes.\u201d&nbsp; No other details have been released\u2026yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Eichner has announced plans to make a biopic about Paul Lynde called Man in a Box.&nbsp; In announcing the project, Eichner made another pronouncement.&nbsp; \u201cGay actors are never, hardly ever, I should say, allowed to play our own gay icons.&nbsp; Harvey Milk, Freddie Mercury, Elton John.&nbsp; Where are the gay actors?&nbsp; And it\u2019s not<\/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-12540","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\/12540","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=12540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12541,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions\/12541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}