Been quite busy re-organizing after Christmas vacation and getting back into a novel and the next Cher zine. John and I have also been making some day trips out and around northern New Mexico. We went to Santa Rosa to see the blue hole, this totally awesome gargantuan spring 81 feet deep. My grandmother used to tell a story about moving with her siblings from Texas to Santa Rosa in a covered wagon. We drove around a little bit and then to Tucumcari, New Mexico, to that town’s quite interesting history museum, and back to Santa Rosa. The famous Route 66 restaurant I picked out for lunch, Joseph's, was a disaster of bad food and service. We drove by the place three times in two hours and a waitress was always outside the front door smoking a cigarette. When we finally stopped to eat there this waitress ended up being our very unenthusiastic waitress. My reputation for picking out our traveling eateries is now in jeopardy.
….but this is all to say I’m behind in my 
Cher news.
The director of one of my favorite Cher movies, Suspect, died the other day. Peter Yates also most famously directed Steve McQueen in Bullitt; and he also directed the great Midwestern growing up flick Breaking Away and Krull and a movie I was once most obsessed with after we first got cable—Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay being very theatrical in The Dresser.
Always enjoy your writing. I was an extra in Suspect and was used throughout but notably when she steps out to talk on the phone I pass her. The simple scene took an hour or so to film & I had a great conversation with her, Peter Yates & became friendly with her makeup man who invited me to watch him do Chers makeup. I’m a makeup artist as well. Cher was amazingly friendly and told me about her new album she had just cut. Met her boyfriend Robert as well. I was saddened when I read Peter Yates had died. I also thought the Dresser was brilliant as was Breaking Away….
Thanks for your great wit & work with Cher Scholar…. Best to you, Eddie….