{"id":93339,"date":"2024-12-15T19:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T03:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93339"},"modified":"2024-12-15T19:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T03:01:47","slug":"if-looks-could-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/12\/15\/if-looks-could-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"If Looks Could Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know people love a bad boy.&nbsp; But what about a killer?&nbsp; Many of my fans (among others) are quite taken with <strong>Luigi Mangione <\/strong>\u2013 the alleged killer of the CEO of <em>United Healthcare<\/em>.&nbsp; He\u2019s certainly a strapping young man, with eyebrows not unlike our own <strong>Jonathan Bennett <\/strong>and an 8-pack that cannot be achieved with any medication (trust me \u2013 I\u2019ve researched it).&nbsp; Rather than discuss anything about this case which you can read all over the media, I\u2019m going to share a story with a healthy dose of skepticism.&nbsp; <strong>John Pallotta <\/strong>is a respected acting teacher \u2013 at least that\u2019s what people tell me.&nbsp; A few years back, he claims that a young man named <strong>Alex Correra <\/strong>came to his NYC acting class.&nbsp; Here is how he describes him: \u201cHe was a violent kid who scared people in class with his sociopathic behavior\u201d.&nbsp; In fact, Pallotta says Correra called him on the phone.&nbsp; \u201cHe confessed to killing someone and thought an acting class would help him.&nbsp; Then he fessed up and told me he was only kidding\u201d.&nbsp; Last week, he recognized \u201cCorrera\u201d as Luigi Mangione.&nbsp; He contacted the police and told them this: \u201cWhat I remember most of all is how he only wanted to play \u2018killers\u2019 in class\u201d.&nbsp; He remembered he had a video scene \u201cCorrera\u201d did, and provided it to the authorities.&nbsp; Is any of this true?&nbsp; Or did Pallotta simply doze off watching the first season of <strong><em>Barry<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know people love a bad boy.&nbsp; But what about a killer?&nbsp; Many of my fans (among others) are quite taken with Luigi Mangione \u2013 the alleged killer of the CEO of United Healthcare.&nbsp; He\u2019s certainly a strapping young man, with eyebrows not unlike our own Jonathan Bennett and an 8-pack that cannot be achieved<\/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-93339","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\/93339","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=93339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93340,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93339\/revisions\/93340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}