{"id":90443,"date":"2022-06-05T23:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90443"},"modified":"2022-06-05T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T06:22:40","slug":"melba-and-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/06\/05\/melba-and-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Melba and Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a questionable moment on last week\u2019s episode of <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> with <strong>Melba Moore<\/strong>.&nbsp; It was a pretty dishy show, and Melba was game for almost everything.&nbsp; She talked about being nude in <strong><em>Hair<\/em><\/strong>, accepting a <em>Tony Award <\/em>after <strong>Jack Cassidy <\/strong>screwed up her name, making history as the first black Fantine in <strong><em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em><\/strong>, being broke and homeless during her divorce, and numerous other highs and lows.&nbsp; And then she abruptly ended our chat.&nbsp; I was about to ask her about a sensitive subject (during Melba\u2019s stay in prison, her daughter stayed with a friend\u2019s parents \u2013 <strong>Bill<\/strong> and <strong>Camille Cosby<\/strong>).&nbsp; While I don\u2019t know for sure, I suspect she had to go to another interview scheduled.&nbsp; After all, she\u2019s promoting her new release, \u201cImagine\u201d.&nbsp; Check it out and decide for yourself.&nbsp; You can see all of our shows on our <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>YouTube <\/em><\/a>channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/BillyMastersTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Billy Masters TV<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\/TV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com\/TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w3oDOTpXSAI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a questionable moment on last week\u2019s episode of Billy Masters LIVE with Melba Moore.&nbsp; It was a pretty dishy show, and Melba was game for almost everything.&nbsp; She talked about being nude in Hair, accepting a Tony Award after Jack Cassidy screwed up her name, making history as the first black Fantine in<\/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-90443","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\/90443","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=90443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90444,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90443\/revisions\/90444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}