{"id":3505,"date":"2018-01-08T05:29:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2018-01-08T05:29:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:29:53","slug":"cooper-and-cohen-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/cooper-and-cohen-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper and Cohen Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the barometer of success?&nbsp; One of my best friends and I often debate this topic.&nbsp; He feels that a successful movie is one that wins at the box office &#8211; not &#8220;one of those films nobody&#8217;s seen&#8221; that wins awards.&nbsp; By this rationale, <strong><em>Baywatch<\/em><\/strong> was actually NOT the worst film of the year\/decade!&nbsp; And, if he worked at <em>CNN<\/em>, he&#8217;d certainly be crowing about the network&#8217;s huge win on New Year&#8217;s Eve.&nbsp; Despite tepid reviews, the pairing of <strong>Anderson Cooper <\/strong>and <strong>Andy Cohen <\/strong>gave the network record ratings.&nbsp; In fact, <em>CNN <\/em>was quick to send out a press release stating that the numbers were up eight percent from last year &#8211; without adding the words &#8220;when <strong>Kathy Griffin <\/strong>was co-hosting&#8221;.&nbsp; Needless to say, <em>CNN<\/em>&#8216;s best New Year&#8217;s Eve ratings still pale in comparison to <em>ABC<\/em>&#8216;s pairing of <strong>Ryan Seacrest <\/strong>and <strong>Jenny McCarthy<\/strong>.&nbsp; Heck, it may even pale next to <strong>Steve Harvey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>CNN <\/em>continued to dominate the cable news ratings even after Coop and Cohen signed off, leaving the heavy lifting to <strong>Don Lemon <\/strong>and <strong>Brooke Baldwin <\/strong>from the <em>Spotted Cat <\/em>in New Orleans.&nbsp; And it was a big night for Lemon &#8211; he was celebrating his one-year anniversary with boyfriend <strong>Tim Malone<\/strong>.&nbsp; Just after the stroke of midnight, both Brooke and Don invited their respective dates to join them.&nbsp; At first, it was unclear who was with whom &#8211; Baldwin&#8217;s <em>fianc\u00e9 <\/em>sat next to Don, and Lemon&#8217;s boyfriend sat on the other side of Brooke!&nbsp; Within moments, it was clear who was with whom when Don leaned over Brooke to kiss Tim, saying, &#8220;I love you baby.&#8221;&nbsp; Aww.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the barometer of success?&nbsp; One of my best friends and I often debate this topic.&nbsp; He feels that a successful movie is one that wins at the box office &#8211; not &#8220;one of those films nobody&#8217;s seen&#8221; that wins awards.&nbsp; By this rationale, Baywatch was actually NOT the worst film of the year\/decade!&nbsp;<\/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-3505","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\/3505","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=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}