{"id":6140,"date":"2020-02-10T02:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=6140"},"modified":"2020-02-10T02:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T10:23:13","slug":"liza-and-the-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/02\/10\/liza-and-the-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Liza and the Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m assuming most of you don\u2019t read <strong><em>Variety<\/em><\/strong> religiously.&nbsp; So it follows that most of you didn\u2019t see the photo of <strong>Liza Minnelli <\/strong>on the cover of the magazine\u2019s <em>Oscars<\/em> issue.&nbsp; If you did, you would have seen a youthful-appearing Minnelli, clutching an <em>Oscar <\/em>to her bosom, perched high upon a director\u2019s chair, with one leg precariously swinging over the arm.&nbsp; This is in sharp contrast to the Liza who is usually captured by the paparazzi having enormous difficulty walking, and who approaches stairs as if she\u2019s being asked to negotiate a medieval gauntlet.&nbsp; Which begs the question \u2013 how many people did it take to get Liza into this unusual position?&nbsp; And is she still stuck in the chair?&nbsp; The interview really seems secondary, but it did provide one illuminating moment.&nbsp; Given her protection of her mother\u2019s image, and the fact that <strong>Ren\u00e9e Zellweger <\/strong>was nominated for (and ultimately won) an <em>Oscar <\/em>for playing her, the topic had to come up.&nbsp; Minnelli admits to not seeing (and having no interest in seeing) the flick, but graciously added, \u201cI hope she had a good time making it.\u201d&nbsp; Now could someone please help me out of this chair??!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m assuming most of you don\u2019t read Variety religiously.&nbsp; So it follows that most of you didn\u2019t see the photo of Liza Minnelli on the cover of the magazine\u2019s Oscars issue.&nbsp; If you did, you would have seen a youthful-appearing Minnelli, clutching an Oscar to her bosom, perched high upon a director\u2019s chair, with one<\/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-6140","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\/6140","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=6140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}