{"id":93727,"date":"2025-04-06T19:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93727"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:31:03","slug":"a-wicked-good-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/04\/06\/a-wicked-good-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wicked Good Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How drag diva <strong>Heklina <\/strong>left this world has been shrouded in mystery for the past two years.&nbsp; There have been numerous rumors \u2013 bad drugs, bad hookers, bad tricks&#8230;just bad.&nbsp; At the time, Heklina was performing in London with <strong>Peaches Christ<\/strong>.&nbsp; They were in separate apartments \u2013 Peaches claims this was so that Heklina could indulge in drugs, alcohol, and sex with \u201cheterosexual-identifying men\u201d.&nbsp; Christ was the one who discovered Heklina\u2019s body \u2013 which has gotta mean something!&nbsp; To this day, London\u2019s <em>Metropolitan Police <\/em>will not confirm a cause of death.&nbsp; Neither the official autopsy nor the toxicology reports have been released.&nbsp; Last week, rallies took place on the anniversary of her death in London and San Francisco demanding answers.&nbsp; And still we wait.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are simply forgotten during the passage of time.&nbsp; Others become even more beloved.&nbsp; The City of Peekskill has commissioned a 25-foot bronze statue honoring <strong>Charlotte Rae<\/strong>.&nbsp; While Rae holds a dear place in many people\u2019s hearts, the city is honoring her role as Mrs. Garrett on <strong><em>The Facts of Life<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 which was set in Peekskill.&nbsp; The statue will be called, <strong><em>You Take the Good, You Take the Bad<\/em><\/strong> and is scheduled to be unveiled next year.&nbsp; Hopefully they\u2019ve already booked <strong>Gloria Loring <\/strong>\u2013 who I suspect will never have anything erected on her behalf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><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\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, <strong>Kristin Chenoweth <\/strong>went to see her pal and <strong><em>Wicked<\/em><\/strong> co-star <strong>Idina Menzel <\/strong>in the <em>Broadway <\/em>musical <strong><em>Redwood<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; After the show, Chenoweth (the former singer-actress) appeared onstage to gush about her pal\u2019s performance.&nbsp; And then, an auction took place to raise money for <em>Broadway Cares<\/em>.&nbsp; Two fans paid $8K each for the chance to come up and meet the stars&#8230;but it wasn\u2019t just a meeting.&nbsp; They got to stand inches away from the twosome for a special performance of \u201cFor Good\u201d from <em>Wicked<\/em>!&nbsp; Idina admitted, \u201cI\u2019m going to forget the words&#8230;but maybe you can help me.\u201d&nbsp; And forget the words (and music) she did \u2013 but in such a real and authentic way that the audience ate it up.&nbsp; Kristin helped her friend through the duet, which you can see on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How drag diva Heklina left this world has been shrouded in mystery for the past two years.&nbsp; There have been numerous rumors \u2013 bad drugs, bad hookers, bad tricks&#8230;just bad.&nbsp; At the time, Heklina was performing in London with Peaches Christ.&nbsp; They were in separate apartments \u2013 Peaches claims this was so that Heklina could<\/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-93727","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\/93727","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=93727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93728,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93727\/revisions\/93728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}