{"id":1685,"date":"2016-02-15T01:16:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2016-02-15T01:16:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:16:27","slug":"joel-grey-vs-ruth-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/joel-grey-vs-ruth-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Grey vs Ruth Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, things have changed.\u00a0 To underline the point, <strong>Joel Grey <\/strong>talks about his struggle with being gay in his new memoir, <strong><em>Master of Ceremonies<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 He recently discussed how fame actually pushed him further into the closet.\u00a0 &#8220;Living in the society that I was living in at the time, being gay was not an option.\u00a0 If you were gay, you had to be terribly, terribly discreet.&#8221;\u00a0 And yet, we all knew &#8211; but that&#8217;s another story.\u00a0 One of the <em>bon mots <\/em>in his memoir is that director <strong>Bob Fosse <\/strong>was very much against casting Grey in <strong><em>Cabaret<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Who did he want to play the part?\u00a0 <strong>Ruth Gordon<\/strong>!\u00a0 Yes, Ruth <strong><em>Harold and Maude<\/em><\/strong> Gordon!\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Fosse didn&#8217;t want anyone in the film associated with the <em>Broadway <\/em>show &#8211; he wanted to create his film from scratch.\u00a0 Also, Gordon had just scored big in <strong><em>Rosemary&#8217;s Baby<\/em><\/strong>, so he thought she would be a curiosity.\u00a0 To say the least!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, things have changed.\u00a0 To underline the point, Joel Grey talks about his struggle with being gay in his new memoir, Master of Ceremonies.\u00a0 He recently discussed how fame actually pushed him further into the closet.\u00a0 &#8220;Living in the society that I was living in at the time, being gay was not an option.\u00a0 If<\/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-1685","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\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}