{"id":39128,"date":"2021-01-04T02:42:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T10:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=39128"},"modified":"2021-01-04T02:42:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T10:42:56","slug":"new-year-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/new-year-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Gay man has too much to drink and legally changes name to Celine Dion<\/strong>.”<\/em><\/span>  
\n\u2013 <\/em>New Year\u2019s Day <\/em><\/strong>headline from England.  Not only is it embarrassing, it\u2019s woefully out of date. 
\nI mean, Celine Dion \u2013 how retro!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I know we\u2019re only a few days into 2021, but it seems an awful lot like 2020.  Then again, last year started very differently than it ended, so perhaps there\u2019s hope.  Pandemic or not, traditions must be upheld.  While I would typically have a raucous viewing party of Lindsay Wagner<\/strong>\u2019s latest oeuvre, Big Mama Masters <\/strong>allows no visitors into Casa Masters<\/em>.  Instead, I was at the home of a friend in my \u201cbubble\u201d.  When we sat down to watch a Wagner flick (courtesy of a fan), we discovered the DVD was damaged in the post.  As luck would have it, this friend asked me last year if I could track down a 1977 made-for-TV retelling of It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 suspiciously titled It Happened One Christmas<\/em><\/strong>.  So we watched my bootleg copy of this forgotten film, starring Marlo Thomas<\/strong>, Wayne Rogers<\/strong>, Orson Welles<\/strong>, and Cloris Leachman <\/strong>as Clara the Angel (with the worst Cockney accent this side of My Fair Lady<\/em><\/strong>).  While not what I\u2019d call a \u201cclassic\u201d, it passed the time adequately.<\/p>\n

On TV, we saw Mariah Carey <\/strong>pop in on Coop <\/strong>and Cohen<\/strong>, winched into one of her 9-year-old daughter\u2019s dresses.  If she inhaled, she\u2019d have popped out in HD!  Meanwhile, Ryan Seacrest <\/strong>looked positively petrified on ABC<\/em>, while Jennifer Lopez <\/strong>appeared dismayed that someone actually turned her mike on.  And in case you don\u2019t know, the few people in Times Square<\/em> were actually invited first responders.  Oh, those poor people.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere on New Year\u2019s Eve, the family of El Presidente <\/em>partied like it was 1999 \u2013 literally.  With nary a mask in sight (I\u2019m told they were banned), the entertainment was straight out of the \u201890s \u2013 people like Terri Nunn <\/strong>from Berlin<\/em><\/strong>, Vanilla Ice<\/strong>, and Taylor Dayne <\/strong>(who had just been on Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>).  The gays took umbrage at the participation of Terri and Taylor \u2013 very popular acts on the Pride <\/em>circuit.  Boycotts were called for \u2013 much like when Jennifer Holliday <\/strong>considered singing at El Presidente<\/em>\u2019s Inauguration<\/em>.  While I cannot speak of the others, I do know that Taylor used the opportunity of a plum paycheck and private jet to visit her ailing parents in the Mar-a-Lago <\/em>vicinity.  Not an excuse, but an explanation.<\/p>\n

Closer to the Equator, Jeffrey Sanker <\/strong>threw a party for gay revelers.  At first, I thought perhaps Puerto Vallarta was allowing gatherings.  However, in the state of Jalisco, parties are banned.  But Nuevo Vallarta (in the neighboring state of Riviera Nayarit) allowed them.  The festivities were moved, with enforced limited capacity, temperature checks, and mandatory masks.  As a further precaution, Sanker asked revelers to keep the address secret and banned photos and videos.  That didn\u2019t stop people from sending snaps into BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Gay man has too much to drink and legally changes name to Celine Dion.”   \u2013 New Year\u2019s Day headline from England.  Not only is it embarrassing, it\u2019s woefully out of date.  I mean, Celine Dion \u2013 how retro! I know we\u2019re only a few days into 2021, but it seems an awful lot like 2020. <\/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-39128","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\/39128","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=39128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39129,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39128\/revisions\/39129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}