I received a message from Cher scholar Robrt last Saturday while out shopping for next weekends family reunion, (my third in so many years). He said it was suddenly 1975 on the newsstand again! And sure enough, Sonny & Cher are sitting by the checkout stacks right alongside Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. Do the millennials even know who Sonny is?
It's a brief story in Closer about the history of their relationship. It's pretty well summed up for such a short piece. With all the hubub going on with Cher's Twitter posts last week and talk of nasty tabloids, those hemorrhoids of journalism, I was confused about whether I should even purchase a magazine called Closer. Was it a tabloid? Closer Weekly in UK sure seems to be by all accounts of my Google searches.
But my perusal of Closer so far leads me to think it's made up of mostly soft-stories about celebrities. There's nothing erroneous in this S&C piece. Nothing new either. Just some quotes from biographer Taraborelli, and old co-worker Hal Blaine. They even dug out Cher show producer George Schlatter commentary. The story that follows is a equally soft piece about Dolly Parton, the boon there being an elusive picture of husband Carl Dean.
If you pick up a copy and read it, you'll surely come to see what an amazing art newsstand cover copy really is.
The Daily News also ran a roundup of shocking celebrity couple breakups that included Sonny & Cher.
Music
Top 40 website also did a list of Top 10 Cher songs. I beg to differ with some of these. It feels more like a reshuffling of her hits.
More Posts on the Twitter Thing
It seems like tabloid web pages are the only outlets really running on this Twitter story. Although Cher did do some cryptic tweet ranting last week so who knows. It feels like a personal story (Twitter release all the same) and I debated even bringing it up here except that it bears commentary on how creepy fandom can be. In that it's creepy to be an uber-fan, even a well-behaved sort and when you read stories about creepier fans, unhinged fans or entitled fans, or even just the roach-ridden underbelly of show business, it's so not fun and makes you question whether or not you should be reading Infinite Jest faster (I've started a reading group!) or devoted more of your life to poetry. That is until the poets and their back-biting competitive infighting starts to depress you and you begin to question maybe whether you should be listening to more Cher records and working to finally launch that Chersonian Institute.
I remember when the diary issue came out. It was touching as I remember it. Great news about Chaz getting work on The Bold and The Beautiful. Did you see it?
Mary,
have you seen this old article in People Magazine?
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20125200,00.html
I think it would be great to read the whole diary.
Also Chaz was on The Bold and the Beautiful on Thursday and Friday playing a preacher who performed a wedding ceremony for two of the characters who got married on the beach.