{"id":2604,"date":"2017-02-27T02:54:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2017-02-27T02:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:54:57","slug":"fayes-oscar-bungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/02\/27\/fayes-oscar-bungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Faye&#8217;s Oscar Bungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OH MY GOD!\u00a0 You write a column, you send it off to the proofers, and then everything changes in a matter of seconds.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to blame crazy <strong>Faye Dunaway <\/strong>and doddering <strong>Warren Beatty<\/strong>.\u00a0 But apparently they were given an envelope that said, &#8220;Best Actress &#8211; <strong>Emma Stone <\/strong>for <strong><em>La La Land<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;.\u00a0 Warren didn&#8217;t know what to do, he looked at Faye (not known for being fast on her feet), and she said, <em>La La Land<\/em>.\u00a0 Everyone from that film is giving speeches, my column is done, and &#8211; oh, wait &#8211; <strong>Jimmy Kimmel <\/strong>comes out to say there was a mistake.\u00a0 Warren explains what happened and the Best Picture is really <strong><em>Moonlight<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Meanwhile, where the fuck is Faye?<\/p>\n<p>I have a few other <strong><em>Oscar <\/em><\/strong>observations.\u00a0 I found Jimmy Kimmel quite entertaining.\u00a0 I loved seeing <strong>Shirley MacLaine <\/strong>rock out to <strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong>.\u00a0 Who knew <strong>Caitlyn Jenner <\/strong>had anything to do with the <strong>OJ <\/strong>documentary?\u00a0 I could watch <strong>Meryl Streep <\/strong>eat Junior Mints all day.\u00a0 You know <strong>Jennifer Aniston <\/strong>wants her sunglasses back.\u00a0 I&#8217;m SO glad <strong>Zsa Zsa <\/strong>made the <em>In Memoriam<\/em> cut &#8211; although I&#8217;m sure someone wanted to put quotes around the term &#8220;actress&#8221;.\u00a0 Honorary <em>Oscar <\/em>winner <strong>Lynn Stalmaster <\/strong>was the first casting director to pass on me.\u00a0 That didn&#8217;t stop me from making a pass on his son, <strong>Lincoln<\/strong>.\u00a0 Due to sealed court documents, I can&#8217;t say anything more &#8211; except when they call it a &#8220;gag order&#8221;, they ain&#8217;t kidding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OH MY GOD!\u00a0 You write a column, you send it off to the proofers, and then everything changes in a matter of seconds.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to blame crazy Faye Dunaway and doddering Warren Beatty.\u00a0 But apparently they were given an envelope that said, &#8220;Best Actress &#8211; Emma Stone for La La Land&#8220;.\u00a0 Warren didn&#8217;t know<\/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-2604","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\/2604","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=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}