{"id":91195,"date":"2023-02-26T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91195"},"modified":"2023-02-26T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T20:35:00","slug":"back-in-the-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/02\/26\/back-in-the-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Back In the Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a delicious rumor going around, wrapped inside some old news.&nbsp; Recently, <strong>Bette Midler <\/strong>has been talking about some film roles she turned down.&nbsp; Like the original <strong><em>Rocky<\/em><\/strong> (the role went to <strong>Talia Shire<\/strong>), or <strong><em>Misery<\/em><\/strong> (<strong>Kathy Bates<\/strong>).&nbsp; Then there\u2019s <strong><em>Sister Act<\/em><\/strong>, which was developed for her during her reign as the <em>Queen of Disney<\/em>.&nbsp; Alas, Bette turned that one down for one reason alone \u2013 \u201cMy fans don\u2019t want to see me in a wimple\u201d.&nbsp; But she may get a chance to rectify this lapse of judgment.&nbsp; As everyone knows, <strong>Whoopi <\/strong>is readying a return to the habit in <strong><em>Sister Act 3<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; While the scenario is well under wraps, my sources tell me that the character of the Mother Superior (played by <strong>Maggie Smith<\/strong>) may retire\u2026or worse.&nbsp; Enter a new, tougher Mother Superior \u2013 perhaps the <strong><em>Divine Miss M<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Well, can\u2019t you just see it?&nbsp; Bette and Whoopi battling it out?&nbsp; The wimples will be flying!&nbsp; And, of course, it all makes sense \u2013 especially since Deloris\u2019 backup singers (<strong>Jenifer Lewis <\/strong>and <strong>Charlo Crossley<\/strong>) were trained at Midler\u2019s teet.&nbsp; Throw in some tracks by the marvelous <strong>Marc Shaiman<\/strong>, and it\u2019s a match made in heaven!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a delicious rumor going around, wrapped inside some old news.&nbsp; Recently, Bette Midler has been talking about some film roles she turned down.&nbsp; Like the original Rocky (the role went to Talia Shire), or Misery (Kathy Bates).&nbsp; Then there\u2019s Sister Act, which was developed for her during her reign as the Queen of Disney.&nbsp;<\/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-91195","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\/91195","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=91195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91196,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91195\/revisions\/91196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}