{"id":1647,"date":"2016-02-01T02:12:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T10:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2016-02-01T02:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T10:12:30","slug":"jackson-taylor-and-brandos-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/jackson-taylor-and-brandos-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson, Taylor and Brando’s road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Taylor<\/strong>, Marlon Brando<\/strong>, and Michael Jackson <\/strong>get into a car together.\u00a0 Now, I’m sure you’re thinking this is the beginning of some joke, but what’s the punchline?\u00a0 How big was the car?\u00a0 Was it an 18-wheeler?\u00a0 It’s actually not a joke – it’s a film being made by the BBC<\/em>.\u00a0 The premise is that these three BIG stars were trapped in New York City after September 11th.\u00a0 And since all flights were grounded, they decide to escape the island by driving cross country.\u00a0 The story is allegedly based in fact – at least, according to an article in Vanity Fair<\/em> back in May of 2011.\u00a0 What we do know is that Michael Jackson did perform at Madison Square Garden <\/em>on September 10th.\u00a0 And it’s said that both Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando went to that concert.\u00a0 While people close to Liz say she stayed in NYC until flights resumed, Jackson’s former assistant claims that Michael rented a car, picked up Taylor and Brando, and they set off on a road trip. \u00a0They allegedly took turns driving, but both Taylor and Jackson were annoyed that Marlon kept wanting to pull over at every KFC <\/em>and Burger King<\/em>.\u00a0 Look, I couldn’t make this up – although I cannot deny that it’s possible someone else did.<\/p>\n

Here’s where it gets freaky – in case the rest of it seemed too normal for you.\u00a0 In the BBC <\/em>film, Michael Jackson will be played by Joseph Fiennes<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yes, Ralph<\/strong>‘s younger brother.\u00a0 Yes, the star of Shakespeare in Love<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Yes, the WHITE actor!\u00a0 It only makes sense – if you want someone who looks like the Michael Jackson of 2001, are you gonna cast Idris Elba<\/strong>?\u00a0 You know who else was surprised by the casting?\u00a0 Joseph Fiennes!\u00a0 “I’m a white, middle-class guy from London.\u00a0 I’m as shocked as you may be.\u00a0 He definitely had an issue – a pigmentation issue – and that’s something I do believe.\u00a0 He was probably closer to my color than his original color.”\u00a0 Wait till Jada Pinkett Smith <\/strong>hears about this!\u00a0 The movie will also feature Stockard Channing<\/strong>, who is naturally playing Elizabeth Taylor – although the way casting is going, she could be playing Brando!\u00a0 As it turns out, Brian Cox <\/strong>will play Marlon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and Michael Jackson get into a car together.\u00a0 Now, I’m sure you’re thinking this is the beginning of some joke, but what’s the punchline?\u00a0 How big was the car?\u00a0 Was it an 18-wheeler?\u00a0 It’s actually not a joke – it’s a film being made by the BBC.\u00a0 The premise is that<\/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-1647","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\/1647","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=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}