{"id":93702,"date":"2025-03-30T21:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T04:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93702"},"modified":"2025-03-30T21:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T04:42:17","slug":"messing-around-with-megan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/03\/30\/messing-around-with-megan\/","title":{"rendered":"Messing Around with Megan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much has been written about the connection between Mid-Century Modern<\/em> and Will & Grace<\/em><\/strong>.  So much so that during a recent appearance on Good Morning America<\/em><\/strong>, Debra Messing <\/strong>was asked about the possibility of yet another reboot.  \u201cI feel like the only thing that could possibly work is if in 20, 30 years we do a Golden Girls <\/em><\/strong>where they\u2019re all living in Boca in caftans.\u201d   Someone online quickly pointed out that Messing is 56, Mullalley <\/strong>is 66, McCormack <\/strong>is 61 and Hayes <\/strong>is a youthful 54.  When Golden Girls<\/em> began, Betty White <\/strong>and Bea Arthur <\/strong>were 63, while McClanahan <\/strong>was only 51!  \u201cYou\u2019re already Golden Girls<\/em>,\u201d quipped the online poster.  It should also be added that, like Bea and Betty, there is no love lost between Messing and Mullally \u2013 which certainly hastened the reboot\u2019s demise.  Who is to blame will be debated by theologians for years to come.  But we do know when Messing was promoting a 2020 benefit for Project Angel Food <\/em>and someone asked if Megan would appear, Deb posted the following: \u201cEric, Sean and I have done many many many charitable things together.  Ask yourself: have you ever seen Megan do anything charitable?\u201d  And, yes, we have the receipts \u2013 on BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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One of the least-inspired moments in Mid-Century Modern<\/em> is the cast lip synching to En Vogue<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s \u201cWhatta Man\u201d.  This leads to a story about the funky divas themselves.  They\u2019re currently working as a quartet \u2013 with replacement Rhona Bennett <\/strong>in the lineup instead of founding member Dawn Robinson<\/strong>.  Then came word that Dawn is homeless and living in her car!  In People<\/em> magazine, she \u201cclarified\u201d the situation.  \u201cI want to make it clear: I am not homeless.  I am temporarily choosing car life as part of my journey of healing and self-discovery.\u201d  Potato\/Potahto!<\/p>\n

Here comes another Mid-Century Modern<\/em> connection.  There is an opera called Fellow Travelers<\/em><\/strong>, which is based on Thomas Mallon<\/strong>\u2019s 2007 novel (which, of course, was turned into a miniseries starring Matt Bomer<\/strong>).   The opera, which debuted in 2018, was slated to be part of the Washington National Opera<\/em>\u2019s 2025-2026 season.  Alas, the composer and librettist felt it wouldn\u2019t be a good fit given the political climate.  \u201cWe have made the impossibly difficult decision that the Kennedy Center <\/em>is not a place the team feels comfortable having the work presented.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much has been written about the connection between Mid-Century Modern and Will & Grace.  So much so that during a recent appearance on Good Morning America, Debra Messing was asked about the possibility of yet another reboot.  \u201cI feel like the only thing that could possibly work is if in 20, 30 years we do<\/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-93702","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\/93702","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=93702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93703,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93702\/revisions\/93703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}