{"id":2773,"date":"2017-05-15T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2017-05-15T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T11:20:18","slug":"patti-vs-madonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/05\/15\/patti-vs-madonna\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti vs. Madonna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No time for idle chit-chat.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve got twice as many stories as I have room for in print, so we&#8217;re gonna dive right in.&nbsp; <strong>Patti LuPone <\/strong>&#8211; the <em>First Lady of Broadway <\/em>&#8211; had some choice words to share when <strong>Andy Cohen <\/strong>asked her what she thought of <strong>Madonna<\/strong>&#8216;s performance as <strong><em>Evita<\/em><\/strong> (actually, a call-in question got the ball rolling).&nbsp; Patti implied she has never seen the entire film but did see &#8220;Buenos Aires&#8221; &#8220;back when <em>MTV <\/em>used to show videos&#8221; and thought it was &#8220;a piece of shit&#8221;.&nbsp; But she didn&#8217;t stop there.&nbsp; &#8220;Madonna is a movie killer.&nbsp; She&#8217;s dead behind the eyes.&nbsp; She couldn&#8217;t act her way out of a paper bag.&nbsp; She should not be on film or on stage.&nbsp; She&#8217;s a wonderful performer for what she does, but she is not an actress.&#8221;&nbsp; How refreshing!&nbsp; When was the last time someone was asked for an opinion and actually gave one?&nbsp; None of that politically correct crap we usually get.&nbsp; Needless to say, this started a holy war on social media with sides being drawn.&nbsp; Many people felt Patti&#8217;s comments were sour grapes over not getting the <em>Evita<\/em> film.&nbsp; I disagree &#8211; Patti always speaks her mind.&nbsp; Earlier in the same episode of <strong><em>Watch What Happens Live<\/em><\/strong>, Cohen showed guest <strong>Christopher Meloni <\/strong>a scene from <strong><em>Law &amp; Order: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>SVU<\/em><\/strong> in which <strong><em>Real Housewife<\/em><\/strong> <strong>Countess LuAnn <\/strong>had a small role.&nbsp; They came back from the clip, and the first thing out of LuPone&#8217;s mouth was, &#8220;Wow, she SURE can&#8217;t act!&#8221;&nbsp; Look, Patti calls &#8217;em as she sees &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No time for idle chit-chat.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve got twice as many stories as I have room for in print, so we&#8217;re gonna dive right in.&nbsp; Patti LuPone &#8211; the First Lady of Broadway &#8211; had some choice words to share when Andy Cohen asked her what she thought of Madonna&#8216;s performance as Evita (actually, a call-in<\/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-2773","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\/2773","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=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}