{"id":95221,"date":"2026-06-28T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95221"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:10:21","slug":"liza-at-80-without-minnelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/06\/28\/liza-at-80-without-minnelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Liza at 80 Without Minnelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cWell, I think it\u2019s interesting when<br \/>\nsomeone says to their doctor,<br \/>\n\u2018I\u2019d like to look younger than my children.\u2019<\/em><em>\u201d&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Rosie O\u2019Donnell <\/strong>to <strong>Andy Cohen <\/strong>when he asked<br \/>\nher opinion on <strong>Kris Jenner<\/strong>\u2019s facelift.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our first story is not much of a story at all.&nbsp; In fact, it was preordained \u2013 perhaps in the stars, perhaps by the gods, perhaps by <strong>Billy <\/strong>himself.&nbsp; It concerns the recent <strong><em>Liza at 80<\/em><\/strong> concert at <em>Carnegie Hall<\/em>.&nbsp; You didn\u2019t have to be psychic to know <strong>Liza <\/strong>would not appear \u2013 regardless of her saying she \u201choped\u201d to attend.&nbsp; One of the participants, <strong>Andrew Rannells<\/strong>, dutifully told <strong>Andy Cohen <\/strong>that Liza would not only be there, she actually selected all of the performers AND what they would perform.&nbsp; Of course, he also believed Minnelli read her audiobook, so he\u2019s a questionable source at best.&nbsp; Oh, but it gets better.&nbsp; It\u2019s also been claimed that Liza wrote the entire script for the show herself.&nbsp; Yeah, and she wrote her autobiography, too!&nbsp; On that topic, Minnelli\u2019s bestie <strong>Michael Feinstein <\/strong>performed at the concert.&nbsp; Sister <strong>Lorna Luft <\/strong>also appeared.&nbsp; So if Liza couldn\u2019t be there&#8230;well, that speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<p>In a related story, <strong><em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em><\/strong> at <em>The Sphere <\/em>in Las Vegas has brought in over $400 million.&nbsp; So the venue has been on the lookout for another film that would lend itself to the interactive venue.&nbsp; And I think they\u2019ve come up with the perfect candidate \u2013 <strong><em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The cult classic, which has been interactive since it debuted in 1975, seems like a perfect fit for 2027.&nbsp; A spokesperson said, \u201cWith <em>Sphere<\/em>, we have the opportunity to take that spirit of immersion to an entirely new level.\u201d&nbsp; I would recommend wearing a slicker!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWell, I think it\u2019s interesting when someone says to their doctor, \u2018I\u2019d like to look younger than my children.\u2019\u201d&nbsp; \u2013 Rosie O\u2019Donnell to Andy Cohen when he asked her opinion on Kris Jenner\u2019s facelift. Our first story is not much of a story at all.&nbsp; In fact, it was preordained \u2013 perhaps in the stars,<\/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-95221","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\/95221","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=95221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95230,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95221\/revisions\/95230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}