{"id":5548,"date":"2019-11-11T05:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2019-11-11T05:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:24:55","slug":"another-weho-icon-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/11\/11\/another-weho-icon-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Another WeHo Icon Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 40 years ago, <strong><em>Studio One <\/em><\/strong>opened in West Hollywood and quickly became THE gay dance club in the country.&nbsp; Owner <strong>Scott Forbes <\/strong>was proud of saying, \u201c<em>Studio One <\/em>was planned, designed and conceived for gay people, gay male people.&nbsp; Any straight people here are guests of the gay community.&nbsp; This is gay!\u201d&nbsp; Like <em>Studio 54 <\/em>(which opened two years later), <em>Studio One <\/em>had the hottest male staff in the skimpiest outfits and attracted record numbers every night.&nbsp; The club also housed <strong><em>The Backlot<\/em><\/strong>, a theatre which featured such performers as <strong>Joan Rivers<\/strong>, <strong>Chita Rivera<\/strong>, <strong>Barry Manilow<\/strong>, <strong>Divine<\/strong>, <strong>Rip Taylor<\/strong>, <strong>Roseanne<\/strong>, <strong>Nancy Dussault<\/strong>, <strong>Mimi Hines<\/strong>, and <em>moi<\/em>.&nbsp; We even filmed the pilot for my talk show there.&nbsp; So I was thrilled to participate in the closing night event for the club (the space is being incorporated into a hotel and shopping plaza).&nbsp; The night kicked off with yours truly interviewing people on the red carpet.&nbsp; As to the show itself, I co-hosted with the irrepressible <strong>Bruce Vilanch<\/strong>.&nbsp; People like <strong>Freda Payne<\/strong>, <strong>Charlo Crossley <\/strong>and <strong>Thelma Houston <\/strong>blew the roof off the house.&nbsp; Who says you can\u2019t go home again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 40 years ago, Studio One opened in West Hollywood and quickly became THE gay dance club in the country.&nbsp; Owner Scott Forbes was proud of saying, \u201cStudio One was planned, designed and conceived for gay people, gay male people.&nbsp; Any straight people here are guests of the gay community.&nbsp; This is gay!\u201d&nbsp; Like Studio<\/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-5548","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\/5548","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=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5549,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions\/5549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}