{"id":14763,"date":"2010-05-11T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=14763"},"modified":"2010-05-11T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T16:53:31","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-liberace-mug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-liberace-mug\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day \u2013 Liberace Mug"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Liberace-Mug_2134\"\n

I bought this Liberace mug at the first Hollywood estate sale I went to when I moved to LA in the late 70’s. I think Jack Hellman, the recipient of this inscribed mug from Liberace, was a critic at Variety.  I know that he was a Taurus.<\/p>\n\"Liberace-Mug_2136\"\n

Whatever he was he was a big deal who had very fancy clothes and a lot of personal gifts from a lot of  Hollywood stars.  I also bought a tux jacket there, maybe Jack’s, that I wore a lot right after “September<\/a>” came out and I started getting invited to fancy music events.<\/p>\n\"aw-orange\"\n

Of course, no matter what I wore I never was going to dress better than Liberace….<\/p>\n\"liberace\"\n

….to whom I lift my\/Jack’s mug now!<\/p>\n\"Liberace-Mug_2135\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought this Liberace mug at the first Hollywood estate sale I went to when I moved to LA in the late 70’s. I think Jack Hellman, the recipient of this inscribed mug from Liberace, was a critic at Variety.  I know that he was a Taurus. Whatever he was he was a big deal … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,413,191,181,35,87,193,13,249,115],"tags":[61,1359,3232,3245,1357],"class_list":["post-14763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising-promotion","category-celebrity","category-drink","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-hollywood","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-people","category-tv-radio","tag-allee-willis","tag-jack-hellman","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-liberace-mug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}