{"id":92646,"date":"2024-05-19T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92646"},"modified":"2024-05-19T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T21:01:38","slug":"cher-gets-inducted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/05\/19\/cher-gets-inducted\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher Gets Inducted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question comes from <strong>Freddie <\/strong>in Las Vegas: <em>\u201c<\/em><strong><em>Cher<\/em><\/strong> <em>has said she wouldn\u2019t go to the <\/em><strong>Rock and Roll Hall of Fame <\/strong><em>after being snubbed for so many years.&nbsp; Now she\u2019s being inducted \u2013 what will happen?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll do what countless artists before her have done.&nbsp; She\u2019ll swallow her pride, come off as a hypocrite, and show up.&nbsp; But you are correct \u2013 she told <strong>Kelly Clarkson<\/strong>, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be in it now if they gave me a million dollars&#8230;I\u2019m never going to change my mind.&nbsp; They can go you-know-what themselves.\u201d&nbsp; Note that she said she wouldn\u2019t be in it \u2013 she never said she wouldn\u2019t go.&nbsp; Maybe she\u2019s gonna go, pull a <strong>Littlefeather <\/strong>and turn it down.&nbsp; Maybe she\u2019ll do that while wearing the <strong><em>Half Breed<\/em><\/strong> outfit!&nbsp; Wouldn\u2019t that be fabulous?&nbsp; But, I suspect she\u2019ll simply go, make a caustic comment about it, and say she\u2019s only there for <strong>Sonny<\/strong>.&nbsp; And for the fans.&nbsp; And perhaps she is.<\/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>When Cher really wishes she could turn back time, we\u2019ve definitely come to the end of yet another column.&nbsp; I was recently in Fort Lauderdale for the annual <strong><em>Fleet Week <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 when thousands of sailors flood our seaside city.&nbsp; You know what was missing?&nbsp; The Fleet!&nbsp; And me, sitting on a crate of Fleet!&nbsp; At least I was sitting on something!&nbsp; For the first time since 1990, South Florida\u2019s <em>Fleet Week <\/em>was moved to Miami due to the Secretary of the Navy, <strong>Carlos Del Toro <\/strong>\u2013 who must be a straight guy.&nbsp; \u201cAs a Cuban-American, I feel very much at home in Miami,\u201d said Del Toro.&nbsp; You know where I feel very much at home?&nbsp; Asleep under a pile of sailors!&nbsp; At least there\u2019s loads of seamen on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">www.BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>, the site that will never leave you in dry dock.&nbsp; I\u2019m out of the country for the next few weeks, but I\u2019m always just a mouse-click away.&nbsp; Drop a note to <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before that film of the <em>Sunset Boulevard<\/em>&nbsp;musical finally gets made&#8230;with Faye playing Norma!&nbsp; Until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Ask Billy question comes from Freddie in Las Vegas: \u201cCher has said she wouldn\u2019t go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after being snubbed for so many years.&nbsp; Now she\u2019s being inducted \u2013 what will happen?\u201d She\u2019ll do what countless artists before her have done.&nbsp; She\u2019ll swallow her pride, come off<\/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-92646","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\/92646","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=92646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92647,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92646\/revisions\/92647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}