{"id":95037,"date":"2026-05-04T02:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95037"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:19:38","slug":"return-to-familiar-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/05\/04\/return-to-familiar-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Familiar Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not everyone has such positive overseas journeys.  Take Pasha Talankin<\/strong>, who won an Academy Award <\/em>earlier this year for Mr. Nobody Against Putin<\/em><\/strong>.  When going through TSA<\/em> in JFK, an agent told him he couldn\u2019t take his Oscar <\/em>onboard.  Why?  Because it could be used as a weapon!  I\u2019ve heard of people doing crazy things with their statuette (some involving slippery substances), but a weapon?  Previously, Talankin had no incident traveling with his Oscar<\/em>.  Lufthansa <\/em>offered to hold the statue in the cockpit (without a slippery substance), but TSA said it would have to be checked in baggage storage.  He complied and, naturally, the bag was lost!  After 48 tense hours, the airline made an announcement.  \u201cWe can confirm that the Oscar <\/em>statue has now been located and is safely in our care in Frankfurt.  We are in direct contact with the guest to arrange its personal return as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We hear that a reboot of The Apprentice<\/em><\/strong> is in the works.  The person at the center of these talks is Don Junior<\/strong>!  If this is the first you\u2019re hearing of this project, you\u2019re not alone.  Someone close to Don claims that he first heard about it by reading reports in the news.  Unlike the previous incarnation for NBC<\/em>, this is being shopped to Amazon<\/em>.  Well, naturally \u2013 they funded that blockbuster documentary, Melania<\/em><\/strong>!  Senior seemed less surprised.  He told the press, \u201cHe\u2019d be probably good.  He\u2019s got a little charisma going.  You need a little charisma for that sucker.\u201d  Days later, Amazon <\/em>pushed back, \u201cThe show is not in active development, and any reporting on details of the show or names of potential hosts would be purely speculative.\u201d  Here\u2019s my question \u2013 what would an apprentice to Junior actually do?  Carry the bags of cash out of the Middle East?  Do midnight runs to pick up his \u201cmedications\u201d?<\/p>\n

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In a less controversial return, Ellen DeGeneres <\/strong>is headed back to Pixar <\/em>for another shot at playing Dory.  Details are unclear, but we\u2019re told it will be a short film and probably won\u2019t come out for a couple of years.  A gig\u2019s a gig.<\/p>\n

Someone else is going back to his roots.  One of Jonathan Bennett<\/strong>\u2019s early jobs was playing JR Chandler on All My Children<\/em><\/strong>.  Bennett is headed back to the soaps by way of General<\/em><\/strong> Hospital<\/em><\/strong>, playing a mysterious man named Joe Fitzpatrick.  \u201cI learned how to act on daytime television when I was 19 years old.  Now I\u2019m back, but I\u2019ve got a few more tools in my tool belt, so this should be fun,\u201d says Bennett.  Now, getting back to his tool…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not everyone has such positive overseas journeys.  Take Pasha Talankin, who won an Academy Award earlier this year for Mr. Nobody Against Putin.  When going through TSA in JFK, an agent told him he couldn\u2019t take his Oscar onboard.  Why?  Because it could be used as a weapon!  I\u2019ve heard of people doing crazy things<\/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,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95037"}],"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=95037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95038,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95037\/revisions\/95038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}