Category: Cher News (Page 8 of 17)

I'm late with Cher posts again. Okay, this is for two reasons: I've been out camping this summer around the Southwest (Mesa Verde, Bryce Canyon, Conchas Lake) and I've been moonlighting with another blog. I'm putting out a book this year and I've been ramping up my personal and poetry sites. Check out Big Bang Poetry at http://www.bigbangpoetry.com, reinventing the life of the poet in the modern world.

But it's not that I haven't been having any Cher thoughts. I'm excited-ly awaiting the new Cher biography out next Friday, the one that was supposed to come out last May, then June.

Cher fans have also been discussing new album and tour news. Cher tweeted that the first single would come out in September, an album would be released for Christmas, and a tour, if she tours, will be postponed until spring of 2013 due to surgery she needs on her ailing tootsies.

Although I would pay to see Cher tour again, I'm hoping her toes talk some sense into her. Coming back after such a dramatic farewell and all…could cause more tweetwars.

Cher has also been continuing to fight the tweet-skanks on Twitter. I hope she finds this somewhat energizing and not depleating. This time MDNA fans have been up in her grill. Read all about it here. Then a Britney Spears fan misinterpreted her anti-Romney tweet.

Cher said:

Like to keep my insults Straight asshole!".

I don't think LOL expresses how funny that is. I love how the twitterazzi is hanging on Cher-tweets like she's the guru of shade.

On the lighter side, she's also been posting some candid photos on twitter, the ones seen above taken by Kathy Griffin after a girls-night-in.

The candid ones below are older but some of my favorites of the recent strike-a-pose shots.

Maybe it's me, but I am loving seeing Cher with big hair again. And maybe big hair spray ignites big fires.

Cher has been busy lately setting fires and helping to put them back out again.

The latest raging inferno, Cher gets some Mormon groups in a snit over a tweet using the phrase 'magic underwear' to refer to celestial garments.

The offending tweet:

"I Feel if he (Obama) doesn't get all his DUCKS IN A ROW we'll b forced 2 listen 2Uncaring Richy Rich! The whitest man in MAGIC UNDERWEAR in the WH (White House)."

This Brisbane press article also takes the time to remind people that Australians were also offended by Cher recently over the sale of the key to Adelaide.

The girl is giving Courtney Love a run for her money this year. You go!

To be fair to Mormons, they are starting to take back their religion. This week 300 pro-gay Mormons joined Salt Lake City's Gay Price Parade in a gesture of support.  A very inspiring story.

To be fair to Cher, she is helping to raise money and offer sympathy for Colorado's latest fire victims. Cher tweeted:

"I will donate $. It's beautiful place, warm people! I've played there many times! SAD! Nephew went 2 Air Force Acad (Academy there). Ryan Southall, he's getting married…

"I'm sad about ppl w/ nowhere to go! Houses lost! I don't think I would (be) strong enough to start over w/ nothing."

http://www.kimt.com/entertainment/story/Cher-to-help-out-fire-victims/Q28vnGFZuE-v48qE7bY-2g.cspx

Cher News reported recently that Gilbert LaPiere, Cher and her sister's one-time stepdad has just passed away in Oklahoma: http://chernews.blogspot.com/2012/02/chers-stepfather-lapiere-dies.html

Rest in peace, Gilbert LaPiere. Now we know how to spell it everyone. Big P. One r.

Cher World also posted some new pics and an article on Cher's apartment condo in Los Angeles: http://www.cherworld.com/news/?p=1804

I've never had a bathtub in the middle of a room…or one with a writing desk no less. Must papers be signed in the tub? No rest for the wicked, my mother always says.

I hope, on a midnight pee break, nobody hits their head on those hanging lights.

I don't know what the heck this is, a meditation nook?

Very tasteful. But I'd hate to be the guest who spills coffee on it.

Ahh….what celebrity livin' is all about: the view!

There were a tons of tweets in June and July.

June:

Cher earned the Connnector(50) sticker on @GetGlue; she continued to work on her duet with her mom and the three mom solos: “we were able to spin straw to gold,” “Love Me Tender” and “Moving On” are songs she mentions; she says she is “high (as the sky) maintenance, "can’t kid myself! –got some good & some wicked little Bitchie-ie! NOBODY’S PERFECT”; she adores Lady Gaga; says “I wish I had a penny 4 every time I f’d up! I’d b up to my ass in pennies! I am So Not a Role Model”; she angrily defends her tweets, her sense of humor and her dyslexia (all of which are not worth the time and energy to defend…all tweets are hieroglyphics); she admonishes her tweet critics: “U want some cheese with that whine U babies”  (That’s more like it); she talks about her cat Mr. Big found on the Believe tour under a truck, “Some hotels don’t take animals” (Not even for Cher?????), she shows off her claws & paws; she’s still talking about her olive sandwich recipe; she finds the Mike Douglas clip of her appearance with her sister and mom on YouTube; she says “Fk u” to a mean poster; asks Kathy Griffin to pick her up some bath oil in London; she talks about her album Not.com.mercial being the stories of her life and observations; when she played “ Sisters of Mercy” her mom cried; says Tea Baggers are killing the spirit of the country; is willing to donate her social security back to those who need it saying “This country has made a poor girl Rich”; says she is not a good Buddhist but will grow; calls Elijah Lijah; is nervous at parties; loves both versions of a “Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harem and Annie Lennox; when asked how she gets confidence, she says “pray x my fingers & jump”; tells someone they are unkind and 2 try Buddha; later apologizes to them: “please accept my Apology! I need 2 try Buddha! Guess I am the unkind Biatch!”; it looks like Chaz’s dog Shorty might have passed away—Cher expresses sympathy; jokes with Kathy Griffin: “I’m Cher”; takes pics with Zimmercan and his suit for her party (which was this month after all); says that at her party people cried and the food was amazing (Moroccan BBQ shrimp), loves jammiejams.com and Moonstruck Marmalade; says Obama is “breaking my heart and his promises”; calls Exon scumbags and asks that “Dems grab your collective balls and stand up 4 your people”; asks about her tweet haters: “Why are these people following me? I wouldn’t follow someone I didn’t respect” (because you’re a big celebrity); says has been alive through 12 presidents and “If I don’t have the right 2 speak about my country now, when will I?” (good point); says the 14 year-old violinist at her party was amazing and the 9 year-old pianist was cute; is editing her mom project with Peter Honess who did LA Confidential, Fast & Furious, If These Walls Could Talk; set up editing bay in her court-yard bedroom; she struggles with iPhone technology… “I’m in Tech Hell”; calls Michele Bachmann a Tea Bag Pinup girl … “someone call Bellevue and ask if they’re missing several million SEVERELY SICK ATIENTS!”; she admits they didn’t film the Caesars Palace shows; says Vegas audience was too old “U know…almost my age ha ha”; she plays wii; says “ I’m not amazing. I’m good bad selfish selfless bitch angel, piss everyone in my family off and am there when they need me; says “I thought I was madly in love every 11 mins from the time I was 12 till I met Son!” says when she’s upset “ I spin my wheels cry’n throw myself on my bed like the Drama Queen God made Me”; she likes Babs (Streisand) and Jim (James Brolin); says “if it’s not chocolate it’s not worth it”; talks about working in See’s Candy Store when she left home at age 16. “It was Heaven! Ahh air scented w/Choc 24/7”; hates Michele Bachmann’s husband's anti-gay speech…says her Gay-Dar is going off! “GAYGAYGAYGAYGAY… without Style.”

Whew…now on to July:

After her Bachman rants she says “I’m not calm but I got so upset I tired myself out!”; gives show biz advise: “Talent is raw! U must sweat & cry & never give up! B able 2 leave home and those you love”; asks “Can I do this on my iPad? God! I knew tech would be the death of me!! I just didn’t think it would look like a little cute bird”; says Hillary is “Very sweet! I’m sorry that part of her doesn’t come Across” (it really doesn’t); gets visited by her singing teacher and goes into the recording studio July 7-9; says she doesn’t do marathon recording sessions and that “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” took 2 hours a night to record for 2-3 nights. (Does she have bad memories of the marathon Sonny sessions?); says to Kathy Griifin “I’m sending a ghost to haunt your house”; hits her ankle on the step to her bed (if she didn’t insist on having a bed sitting on a platform like a princess, that probably wouldn’t happen); dreams of grilled cheese and hot fudge Sundays and See’s candy; worked at the Sees in Beverly Hills with old blue haired woman. “They were 100!”; she specialized in Easter baskets; there was no party after the Zookeeper premiere (“You can really hear me sing More Than a Feeling at the end”); says “The republicans would step over the bodies of old people & children to get tax exemptions for the rich and Excon”… “btw $$$ doesn’t fkn trickle down, plus who wants a trickle?”; then she feels rant guilt: says to @Bitch Magazine, “Don’t regret or take back one feeling but I don’t need to lay them on your doorstops”; (We’re coming to your door, lady…goodly,the moratorium on the ranting doesn’t last long); on July 13 finished first track of the new cd, Lady Gaga’s “You Are the Greatest Thing To Me” which is not duet yet; invites Kathy to celebrate her emmy nom, says is “not a dem INDY”; talked tour with Roger & Lindsay, including ideas, stage songs, adding "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" (YHSTHOM), recreating “Welcome to Burlesque”….but feels touring is too lonely; asks for our top 10 fav songs (methinks she would never do mine); laments about the stopping of teaching cursive writing, says she sang “Save Up All Your Tears” during a breakup, “remember the song but not the guy!” (Richie Sambora?); says “No one believed in me cept my mom & Son” sang “After All” and “Remember the song & will never 4get the Guy!”; says Peter Cetera couldn’t harmonize on the chorus; someone might have asked her why she’s a gay icon when she replies “Because we feel like outsiders. I think people that like me know that we’re all flawed together and it’s ok”; says “I’m sure most of u don’t like this CD BUT doesn’t Anyone like “THE FALL” (why is she assuming we don’t like that cd?? I thought most fans liked it); talks about writing the songs at a Gothic castle with 30 people, no phones or TV and how they wrote the songs in the day and sang them at night; goes to Paris, Austria and Istanbul; Gaga to put her voice on “The Greatest Thing”; her phone gets NO SERVCIE, “ I hate those 2 words!”; goes to a Buddha center/monastery; after which she comes back and says “Yes I did miss u lovielies! Bet u missed my crazy tweets huh?”; promises “I’m going 2 try 2 tidy up my act…But I love swearing & I’m old so I should be able 2”; when someo
ne tells her they have kidney stones she says, “Son had bad kidney stones, almost lost a kidney”; she’s looking for old Vogue magazines she was in; says the Time Magazine dress was in Vogue first; she laughed a lot watching Get Me to the Greek.

Got all that?