{"id":6775,"date":"2020-03-30T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=6775"},"modified":"2020-03-30T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:20:05","slug":"rip-terrence-mcnally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/03\/30\/rip-terrence-mcnally\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Terrence McNally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have our first official celebrity death.&nbsp; Playwright <strong>Terrence McNally <\/strong>wasn\u2019t someone who craved the spotlight.&nbsp; But he has the dubious distinction of being the face of the coronavirus.&nbsp; The analogy to <strong>Rock Hudson <\/strong>being the face of AIDS is not exactly ideal.&nbsp; McNally was not closeted, not a heartthrob, and pretty much lived his life openly (with the possible exception of his alcoholism, which <strong>Angela Lansbury <\/strong>called him on and helped him deal with).&nbsp; He was a lovely, intelligent, thoughtful man.&nbsp; He had a variety of ailments over the past several years, and Covid-19 was simply the straw that broke this giant\u2019s back.&nbsp; In all the tributes which have been pouring in, nobody seems to have a bad thing to say about Terrence.&nbsp; We knew each other and had loads in common.&nbsp; But, for whatever reason, sadly, we never really \u201cclicked\u201d.&nbsp; Nonetheless, my feelings for him as an artist and as a person are boundless, and I send his husband <strong>Tom <\/strong>my warmest wishes during this difficult time.&nbsp; He is now at peace \u2013 at last.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary NYC drag queen <strong>Mona Foot <\/strong>is also a casualty of the coronavirus.&nbsp; The news was announced by designer <strong>Geoffrey Mac<\/strong>, who just won <strong><em>Project Runway<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Foot, also known as <strong>Nashom Wooden<\/strong>, was one of those larger-than-life characters who drew people in and nurtured them.&nbsp; As Mona, he hosted a weekly contest called <strong><em>Mona Foot\u2019s Star Search<\/em><\/strong> at <em>Barracuda <\/em>in NYC \u2013 a show which many feel inspired <strong><em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; An apt comparison, especially since it was Ru who taught Mona how to apply makeup when they were both appearing in the <em>off-Broadway <\/em>play, <strong><em>My Pet Homo<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; When we can go to the theatre again, let\u2019s hope someone mounts a revival of that!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have our first official celebrity death.&nbsp; Playwright Terrence McNally wasn\u2019t someone who craved the spotlight.&nbsp; But he has the dubious distinction of being the face of the coronavirus.&nbsp; The analogy to Rock Hudson being the face of AIDS is not exactly ideal.&nbsp; McNally was not closeted, not a heartthrob, and pretty much lived<\/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-6775","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\/6775","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=6775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6776,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions\/6776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}