{"id":92469,"date":"2024-03-31T18:50:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T01:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92469"},"modified":"2024-03-31T18:50:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T01:50:36","slug":"dusk-for-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/03\/31\/dusk-for-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusk for Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cover story of last Friday\u2019s <em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em> asked a seemingly simple question: \u201cWould You Wait Six Hours for <strong>Priscilla Presley<\/strong>\u2019s Autograph?\u201d&nbsp; I can give a seemingly simple response: \u201cNo!\u201d&nbsp; The article is about <strong><em>The Hollywood Show <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 a place where fans get to meet their favorite stars.&nbsp; It used to take place at the <em>Beverly Garland Hotel <\/em>\u2013 back when <strong>Beverly Garland <\/strong>was relevant&#8230;and alive!&nbsp; Now it\u2019s at the <em>Burbank Marriott<\/em>.&nbsp; The lineup of celebrities this year included several notables from <strong><em>Dallas<\/em><\/strong> (both incarnations).&nbsp; Before you ask, nary a <strong>Principal <\/strong>in sight.&nbsp; Why isn\u2019t anyone worried about where she is?&nbsp; She either looks really bad, or is in the <em>Witness Protection Program<\/em>.&nbsp; Someone who did show up was Miss Presley (<em>n\u00e9e <\/em><strong>Beaulieu<\/strong>), who had a long and winding line of fans that was compared to one of the more popular rides at <em>Disney<\/em>.&nbsp; One of her assistants said, \u201cShe will stay until the very last person leaves.&nbsp; She\u2019s like that.&nbsp; She won\u2019t disappoint.\u201d&nbsp; Unless you\u2019re a relative who comes between her and an inheritance, in which case I would advise you to sleep with one eye open.<\/p>\n<p><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\"><\/p>\n<p>A week earlier, Priscilla showed up at the very last public performance by <strong>Tony Orlando<\/strong>.&nbsp; This took place at <em>Foxwoods Casino <\/em>in Connecticut.&nbsp; Priscilla wasn\u2019t there out of love for Tony; she just happened to be doing her one-woman show in the same theatre the next night.&nbsp; Tony was joined for part of the concert by his old singing partners, <strong>Telma Hopkins <\/strong>and <strong>Joyce Vincent<\/strong>, otherwise known as <strong><em>Dawn<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Fun fact \u2013 Telma and Joyce were not on the first recordings of the group.&nbsp; Back then, anonymous studio singers were used.&nbsp; Eventually, the ladies were cast as <em>Dawn<\/em> and stayed with Tony until 1977.&nbsp; They\u2019ve reunited occasionally over the years and Tony couldn\u2019t say farewell to live performing without them.&nbsp; I watched most of the video from this concert and realized the only songs of his I knew were the ones with <em>Dawn<\/em> \u2013 whoever they were at the time.<\/p>\n<p>One of <strong><em>Tony Orlando and Dawn<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s hits was \u201cSay, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose\u201d, a poignant song about a suburban mom who runs off to become a stripper, or a hooker, or a porn star \u2013 I was never quite sure.&nbsp; But I thought of the song when I read that convicted murderer <strong>Gypsy Rose Blanchard <\/strong>has broken up with her post-prison hubby after three months of wedded bliss.&nbsp; After a while, you can\u2019t sleep with one eye open.&nbsp; Ask <strong>Lisa Marie<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cover story of last Friday\u2019s Hollywood Reporter asked a seemingly simple question: \u201cWould You Wait Six Hours for Priscilla Presley\u2019s Autograph?\u201d&nbsp; I can give a seemingly simple response: \u201cNo!\u201d&nbsp; The article is about The Hollywood Show \u2013 a place where fans get to meet their favorite stars.&nbsp; It used to take place at the<\/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-92469","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\/92469","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=92469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92478,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92469\/revisions\/92478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}