{"id":91253,"date":"2023-03-19T19:36:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91253"},"modified":"2023-03-19T19:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T02:36:20","slug":"gage-comes-out-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/03\/19\/gage-comes-out-kinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Gage Comes Out&#8230;Kinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t mention this last week, but I\u2019m mad at the <em>Academy Awards <\/em>all over again.&nbsp; Last year, they let <strong>Will Smith <\/strong>sit there without any repercussions for his actions.&nbsp; This year, it was <strong>Tems <\/strong>and her big white dress.&nbsp; As someone who has been to the <strong><em>Oscars<\/em><\/strong>, lemme tell you I would not be having it.&nbsp; You would not see me poking my head up from behind her tule \u2013 I would have pushed it down!&nbsp; Of course, I\u2019d probably be the one thrown out.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been asked repeatedly if the denials that <strong>Lady Gaga <\/strong>would perform at the <em>Oscars <\/em>were just the <em>Academy <\/em>misleading us.&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; Gaga turned down the opportunity to sing her <em>Oscar<\/em>-nominated ditty due to the filming demands of <strong><em>Joker \u2013 Folie \u00e0 Deux<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; She still planned to attend, but felt being rushed would not allow her to give a performance up to her standards.&nbsp; I\u2019m told that it was the personal call from <em>Oscars<\/em>\u2019 producer <strong>Glenn Weiss <\/strong>and the idea of a stripped down rendition which led to what you saw.&nbsp; Apparently stripped down also meant hosed down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lukas Gage <\/strong>recently gave a lengthy interview to <em>The New York Times<\/em> where he scuttled questions about his relationship with celebrity hairdresser, <strong>Chris Appleton <\/strong>\u2013 but invited the speculation.&nbsp; Then the twosome showed up <em>a deux <\/em>at the <em>Vanity Fair Oscar <\/em>party.&nbsp; In case there were any lingering questions, Chris told <strong>Drew Barrymore<\/strong>, \u201cI\u2019m very happy.&nbsp; Very much in love.&nbsp; And I feel very grateful to be able to share my time with someone very special.&nbsp; Love is a really special thing and I think meeting someone that you really connect with is really, really special.\u201d&nbsp; He then showed the infamous Mexico pics and identified Lukas by name.&nbsp; Asked and answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t mention this last week, but I\u2019m mad at the Academy Awards all over again.&nbsp; Last year, they let Will Smith sit there without any repercussions for his actions.&nbsp; This year, it was Tems and her big white dress.&nbsp; As someone who has been to the Oscars, lemme tell you I would not be<\/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-91253","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\/91253","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=91253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91262,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91253\/revisions\/91262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}