{"id":24684,"date":"2020-10-04T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T06:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=24684"},"modified":"2020-10-04T23:29:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T06:29:12","slug":"bonmers-in-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/10\/04\/bonmers-in-the-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon(m)ers in the Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to hear that <strong>Jim Parsons <\/strong>and his husband both had the coronavirus back in March.&nbsp; Jim made the revelation on <strong><em>The Tonight Show<\/em><\/strong>, where he was promoting the film remake of <strong><em>The Boys in the Band<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The <em>Netflix <\/em>production features the full cast from the recent <em>Broadway <\/em>run.&nbsp; While it\u2019s great to capture that company on video, it is a pale reproduction of what worked far more effortlessly on stage.&nbsp; There were some odd moments \u2013 like why the string of terrace lights didn\u2019t short out in the rain, or why a hustler who charges only $20 for the night would throw his cowboy hat off the balcony.&nbsp; And leave it to <strong>Ryan Murphy <\/strong>to hit us over the head with a metaphor.&nbsp; When the storm kicks up and the party moves indoors, they quite literally leave the cake out in the rain!&nbsp; At least there is some nudity to distract us, courtesy of <strong>Andrew Rannells <\/strong>in a flashback with <strong>Matt Bomer<\/strong>.&nbsp; More fulfilling was the sight of Bomer\u2019s slightly fluffed boner.&nbsp; Those of you who are <em>Netflix<\/em>-free can see all on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to hear that Jim Parsons and his husband both had the coronavirus back in March.&nbsp; Jim made the revelation on The Tonight Show, where he was promoting the film remake of The Boys in the Band.&nbsp; The Netflix production features the full cast from the recent Broadway run.&nbsp; While it\u2019s great to<\/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-24684","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\/24684","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=24684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24685,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions\/24685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}