{"id":95478,"date":"2026-09-20T23:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95478"},"modified":"2026-09-20T23:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:27:15","slug":"emmys-mcentire-mackie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/09\/20\/emmys-mcentire-mackie\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmys, McEntire & Mackie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy husband is in love with his valet.\u2019\u201d <\/em>
\n\u2013 <\/em>One of the many things Princess Diana <\/strong>allegedly told her brother,
\nCharles Spencer<\/strong>.  Such rumors about the King <\/em><\/strong>have circulated before. 
\nAnd when you think about it, Valet\/Camilla <\/strong>\u2013 really an honest mistake<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I like Mariska Hargitay<\/strong>.  She\u2019s television royalty.  But I\u2019m not sure who decided she should host the Emmy Awards<\/em><\/strong>.  She\u2019s not exactly what I call a laugh riot.  Still, she was game.  She was cracking \u201cjokes\u201d, \u201csinging\u201d and \u201cdancing\u201d \u2013 all with variable levels of success.  She did everything but drag out her mother\u2019s violin!  That said, she certainly looked lovely, even if I think she appears more at home in slacks than gowns.  I also didn\u2019t mind the now-you-see-it, now-you-don\u2019t hair that was similar to the Crissy <\/em>doll!  The whole evening gave her the chance to take a victory lap after winning two Emmys for her documentary, My Mom Jayne<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The tribute to Dolly Parton <\/strong>by Reba McEntire <\/strong>was classy and simple \u2013 exactly what Dolly would have wanted.  In fact, Dolly was a passive participant in the performance.  Reba was wearing Dolly\u2019s personal earrings and a butterfly ring which the Parton family loaned her.  McEntire\u2019s white gown was chosen because it was similar to what Dolly wore when she sang \u201cAppalachian Memories\u201d on her 1983 Live in London<\/em><\/strong> performance.<\/p>\n

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I was particularly pleased to see Bob Mackie <\/strong>close out the perennially pesky In Memoriam<\/em> sequence \u2013 especially since he died earlier the same day!  So much for the well-worn \u201cwe didn\u2019t have enough time to include so-and-so\u201d excuse which is trotted out year after year.  The very first time I met Bob was with Mitzi Gaynor <\/strong>\u2013 and if there is a gayer way to open a sentence, I\u2019m not aware of it.  When I approached to introduce myself, he looked at me and said, \u201cWhat a fantastic jacket!\u201d  I couldn\u2019t imagine a better compliment from Bob Mackie than about my clothes.  I didn\u2019t dare tell him that the jacket (which I still have, and the photo from that meeting is on BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>) was from the long-defunct International Male <\/em>catalogue.  Over the years, we often spent time in each other\u2019s company, shared meals, vacations, and even kibitzed on Billy Masters LIVE!<\/em><\/strong> …twice!  In addition to his undeniable talent, he was a warm, genuine person who was fiercely loyal to his friends and wickedly funny.  One of a kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy husband is in love with his valet.\u2019\u201d  \u2013 One of the many things Princess Diana allegedly told her brother, Charles Spencer.  Such rumors about the King have circulated before.  And when you think about it, Valet\/Camilla \u2013 really an honest mistake. I like Mariska Hargitay.  She\u2019s television royalty.  But I\u2019m not sure who decided<\/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-95478","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\/95478","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=95478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95487,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95478\/revisions\/95487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}