{"id":90820,"date":"2022-10-16T20:38:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90820"},"modified":"2022-10-16T20:38:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T03:38:23","slug":"angela-steve-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/10\/16\/angela-steve-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela &#038; Steve &#8211; Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is paying tribute to <strong>Angela Lansbury<\/strong>, who died just five days short of her 97<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.&nbsp; But, fear not \u2013 you haven\u2019t seen the last of Angie!&nbsp; She\u2019ll be back on the big screen before the end of the year in <strong><em>Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; And she\u2019ll be in good company \u2013 also in the cast is the late <strong>Stephen Sondheim<\/strong>!&nbsp; We don\u2019t know if they appear together, but we do know they appear as themselves.<\/p>\n<p>It bears noting that Lansbury was one of the first celebrities to join forces in the fight against AIDS.&nbsp; Way back in September of 1987, she headlined the first big AIDS benefit in Chicago which raised over $1 million \u2013 and, trust me, not a lot of stars were speaking out in the \u201880s!&nbsp; She also sent out Christmas cards for <em>Aids for AIDS<\/em>, saying (in part), \u201cThis illness is robbing us of our friends and our futures.&nbsp; This disease knows no discrimination\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I have one Angela Lansbury story worth sharing.&nbsp; My friend <strong>Rick McKay <\/strong>was making his acclaimed documentary, <strong><em>Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; When he would come to LA to interview people, he would stay with me.&nbsp; One day, he went to Angela Lansbury\u2019s house for an interview.&nbsp; He was a bit early and no one was home.&nbsp; He returned to the car to wait and, shortly thereafter, saw Angie pull into her driveway and get out of the car with a gorgeous array of roses.&nbsp; He waited a few minutes and then returned to her front door and rang the bell.&nbsp; Still no response.&nbsp; He rang again, and Lansbury appeared \u2013 in gardening gloves and holding pruning shears.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t hear you \u2013 I was in the backyard cutting some flowers for our interview.\u201d&nbsp; And then she proceeded to arrange the roses he had previously seen her walk in with!&nbsp; Well, a big <em>Broadway <\/em>star needs props!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is paying tribute to Angela Lansbury, who died just five days short of her 97th birthday.&nbsp; But, fear not \u2013 you haven\u2019t seen the last of Angie!&nbsp; She\u2019ll be back on the big screen before the end of the year in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.&nbsp; And she\u2019ll be in good company \u2013<\/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-90820","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\/90820","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=90820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90829,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90820\/revisions\/90829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}