{"id":1266,"date":"2015-08-24T04:29:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2015-08-24T04:29:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:29:20","slug":"bettes-hocus-pocus-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/08\/24\/bettes-hocus-pocus-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bette&#8217;s Hocus Pocus Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, <strong>Bette Midler <\/strong>has bemoaned the fact that <em>Disney <\/em>hasn&#8217;t made a sequel to <strong><em>Hocus Pocus<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Whenever asked about it, she says, &#8220;Inundate the <em>Disney Company<\/em>, because I have canvassed the girls and they are willing to do it, but we have no say in it, so if you want a <strong><em>Hocus Pocus 2<\/em><\/strong>, ask the <em>Walt Disney Company<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 Because the film is so popular at Halloween, <em>Disney World <\/em>is staging a live show featuring the Sanderson Sisters alongside other Disney villains.\u00a0 The <strong><em>Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular<\/em><\/strong> runs from September 15 through November 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is not exactly what Midler had in mind.\u00a0 To show the studio what she envisioned, she&#8217;s staged her own mini <strong><em>Hocus Pocus: Live<\/em><\/strong> as part of her latest tour.\u00a0 While chorus girls are filling in for <strong>Kathy Najimy <\/strong>and <strong>Sarah Jessica Parker<\/strong>, Bette is in full Winifred drag and belts out &#8220;I Put a Spell On You&#8221;.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll run a video of it on our website, just so you can see how divine it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Bette Midler has bemoaned the fact that Disney hasn&#8217;t made a sequel to Hocus Pocus.\u00a0 Whenever asked about it, she says, &#8220;Inundate the Disney Company, because I have canvassed the girls and they are willing to do it, but we have no say in it, so if you want a Hocus Pocus 2,<\/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-1266","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\/1266","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=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}