{"id":92124,"date":"2023-12-24T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92124"},"modified":"2023-12-24T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:16:10","slug":"lourd-vs-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/12\/24\/lourd-vs-fisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Lourd vs Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo offense, but you look like Billy Masters<\/strong>.\u201d <\/em><\/span>
\n\u2013 <\/em>l don\u2019t know which part of this quip from a stranger insulted me more \u2013 that he didn\u2019t realize I am Billy Masters,
\nor he thought someone would take offense to being told they look like Billy Masters.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This was a strange year for someone who writes about the entertainment industry.  After all, most of it was shut down due to those pesky strikes.  And yet, we rallied on.  One of the sticking points in negotiations was the threat that AI would eliminate people\u2019s jobs.  So we put it to the test.  I asked ChatGPT <\/em>to generate the opening of a Billy Masters <\/strong>column.  This is what I got: \u201cLadies, gentlemen, and those of you who are still deciding what fabulous category you fall into.  I\u2019m Billy Masters, and I\u2019ve got a mouthful of sass and heart full of glitter.\u201d  The fact that highly advanced computers took almost three decades of weekly columns (that\u2019s over a thousand columns) and came up with such drivel proves that my position as the most beloved of gay columnist is as secure as ever.<\/p>\n

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Sitting here aloft my perch, I surveyed many stories.  But I don\u2019t think anything grabbed my interest more than the battle between Billie Lourd <\/strong>and her entire family.  For those of you who don\u2019t know (and, frankly, why should you), Billie is the only child of Carrie Fisher <\/strong>and Bryan Lourd <\/strong>\u2013 who is gay, but that\u2019s another story.  Carrie\u2019s brother, Todd Fisher<\/strong>, had applied for Carrie to get a long-overdue star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame <\/em><\/strong>and was told there\u2019s a three-year waiting period for a posthumous star.  Years go by, and one day Todd gets a call from a friend saying, \u201cI\u2019ll see you at Carrie\u2019s ceremony on May the 4th<\/sup>\u201d (as in \u201cMay the force be with you\u201d).  This was news to Todd, so he called the people at the Walk of Fame<\/em>.  They say the guest list is being handled by Disney<\/em>.  He calls Disney and they tell him he\u2019s not on the family\u2019s guest list \u2013 run by Billie.  Turns out Carrie\u2019s half-sisters Joely <\/strong>and Tricia Leigh Fisher <\/strong>were also not invited \u2013 which begs the question, is Billie talking to any members of her family?  She didn\u2019t respond to any of their calls, so Todd went public with his frustration.  Then Billie issued a statement: \u201cThe truth is I did not invite them to this ceremony.  They know why.\u201d  Billie is upset that Todd wrote a book about his sister and mother (Debbie Reynolds<\/strong>), and she\u2019s upset that Joely talked about them in her memoir.  Todd considered just showing up at the ceremony, but was told that Billie would not come out if any of the Fishers were there.  As a writer, I love this story.  As someone who knew Carrie and Debbie, I think Billie needs to grow the fuck up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo offense, but you look like Billy Masters.\u201d  \u2013 l don\u2019t know which part of this quip from a stranger insulted me more \u2013 that he didn\u2019t realize I am Billy Masters, or he thought someone would take offense to being told they look like Billy Masters. This was a strange year for someone who<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92124","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\/92124","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=92124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92134,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92124\/revisions\/92134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}