{"id":92501,"date":"2024-04-07T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92501"},"modified":"2024-04-07T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T02:41:11","slug":"jones-collins-four-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/04\/07\/jones-collins-four-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones\/Collins Four-Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, my darling <strong>Shirley Jones <\/strong>celebrated her 90<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.&nbsp; This reminded me of an amusing story she shared in her 2013 autobiography, <strong><em>Shirley Jones: A Memoir<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Apparently she and her then-hubby <strong>Jack Cassidy <\/strong>once dined with another couple \u2013 <strong>Joan Collins <\/strong>and <strong>Anthony Newley<\/strong>.&nbsp; After dinner, Shirley claims that Tony proposed the foursome get naked and watch some porn.&nbsp; \u201cIt was clear what Tony was leading up to \u2013 swinging,\u201d says Mrs. Partridge.&nbsp; Dame Joan was outraged and had her lawyers send out a cease-and-desist letter, demanding that the book be pulled from the shelves.&nbsp; While that didn\u2019t happen, <em>Simon &amp; Schuster <\/em>did agree to have Joan\u2019s name excised from future copies.&nbsp; The third printing still contains the anecdote, but simply refers to Shirley\u2019s dinner companion as \u201csome dame\u201d.&nbsp; Collins claims, \u201cWe all make mistakes.&nbsp; I\u2019ve made a few myself, but not with Mrs. Jones.&nbsp; I\u2019m a serial monogamist.\u201d&nbsp; Shirley says retraction or not, that\u2019s what happened.&nbsp; Happy birthday, Shirley!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, my darling Shirley Jones celebrated her 90th birthday.&nbsp; This reminded me of an amusing story she shared in her 2013 autobiography, Shirley Jones: A Memoir.&nbsp; Apparently she and her then-hubby Jack Cassidy once dined with another couple \u2013 Joan Collins and Anthony Newley.&nbsp; After dinner, Shirley claims that Tony proposed the foursome get<\/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-92501","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\/92501","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=92501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92502,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92501\/revisions\/92502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}