Category: Cher Outfit Watch (Page 6 of 9)

Cher Scholar Has Been Under the Weather This Holiday Season

December 26, 2012 / Cher Scholar / 0 Comments

I've been missing posting little tidbits of Cher news this whole holiday season! For Thanksgiving, Mr. Cher Scholar and I went to New York City to see The Book of Mormon. When we were sitting in the jam-packed La Guardia airport waiting to fly back to Santa Fe, we both started to feel feverish.

Five weeks later and I'm still not over it. It has morphed from a cold to a flu to a cold again. Although dramatic goings-on at work, spending too much time out in the cold weather, and Christmas shopping and shipping duties didn't help for a speedy recovery, I had no energy left to do much Cher scholarin. Here is a flashback over the end of November and December in Cher Land.

Cher calls for a boycott of Walmart due to their guns sales and the tragic Connecticut shooting of school children. I have already been avoiding Walmart for 10 years due to my mother's boycott of Walmart due to their screwing over workers, small businesses and local economies all while their heirs hoard a huge chunk of American wealth. I think Forbes Magazine said it best: "Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30% of Americans."

Cher does not appear on the X-Factor finale as reported but goes to Russia instead for a private concert. Stories from Cher World and Cher News:

Here is Cher leaving the airport in LA looking like an ageless hipster:

And Cher in Russia doing Russian things:

Performing and receiving a crown. That must have been her fee.

Looking like a stern Russian femme fetale (what a role that would be!) while getting in a limo:

(Click all photos to enlarge)

Cher this month also reported being hot for the character who plays Golem in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit: Andy Serkus. Here is a picture of him shirtless.

Cher just released a Christmas Tweet: "Have the best Christmas ever! I know Christmas sucks sometimes – try to do something you like! Watch a movie you like, have a piece of pie, ice cream, pop corn, buttermilk, biscuits or something you love!"

Cher also posted pics of her house decorated for a Christmas party.

Due to our illnesses, Mr. Cher Scholar and I cancelled our Christmas party and I didn't put up any decorations, which are very similar to Cher's minus the lighting, ceilings, floors, silverware and ginormous trees. Between our lack of festivity, the Connecticut shooting and the sad-sack stories of my co-workers, this made for the most depressing Christmas I've had in years.

I had not read Cher's tweet by yesterday but I inadvertently did something I don't usually do just to cheer myself up: I ate a cheese ball.

Merry Christmas everybody.

I hope the good spirit of cheese balls lives in you this week.

Go Vote: Kristen Stewart V. Cher: Who Rocks a Sheer Bodysuit Best?

November 18, 2012 / Cher Scholar / 0 Comments

People Magazine is running a bodysuit poll and who doesn't care about bodysuits so go make your voice heard:

Banging bodies. Major success. Sheer jumpsuits. Three things Kristen Stewart and Cher have in common. But does K. Stew’s Zuhair Murad creation live up to Cher’s legendary black bodysuit?

Stewart wore her revealing ensemble — a shimmering, backless number — to the London premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 on Wednesday and earned mixed reviews from readers, some of whom found it sexy and some who thought it was salacious.

Cher has worn black bodysuits a zillion times throughout her career, most recently to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards (left) — and most famously in her “If I Could Turn Back Time” video. And we’ve gotta say: she’s worn them well.

So who looks best? The newbie or the old (yet ageless) pro? Vote in our poll.

You know what to do.

http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2012/11/15/kristen-stewart-cher-black-bodysuit/

Cher Goes Out on the Town

September 16, 2012 / Cher Scholar / 0 Comments

…and the girl is still causing a sensation.

Go to Cher World and see more photos. And please, please watch the video of Cher entrapped by fans and paparazzi: http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-attends-the-book-of-mormon-in-los-angeles/.

One guy with a green sweater hands her something to sign from behind a door. A barrage of "I love you Cher!"

What happens when love hurts. You can see the aggrivation on her face. And it's hard to believe she still creates such a fury with her appearances after all these years (47!!) after her career started. It's sort of breathtaking.

She was attending the Los Angeles premiere of Matt Parker and Trey Stones' musical The Book of Mormon at The Pantages Theatre. Last year for Christmas I asked for tickets to the Broadway show for this fall. I can't wait to see it and to be back in New York City with Mr. Cher Scholar!!

Cher's outing last week also produced a new quirky ensemble.

And below she shows off her cock-sure purple hat she wears smartly as she's being man-handled through the freak show.

She tweeted of the event:

On way 2 FAB Nite ! LATE! Road is parking Lot ! I look cute in my Philip Trace
Hat! Well Purple Hat …Looks Cute ! I Look like cher??

Actually, she looks like some funky retro- Kool-Cat-in-the-Hat.

And I like it.

Cher News posted her stream of twitter pics on the way to the show: http://chernews.blogspot.com/2012/09/more-twitter-photo-uploads-from-cher.html.

A friend's camera phone must have also captured Cher and Kathy Griffin sitting in what is surely the first few rows.

Later in the week, Cher donated her time down on the Santa Monica Pier to support The Heroes Project and her friend and the project's founder Tim Medvetz. The Cycle for Heroes event was to support wounded U.S. soldiers. Other famous cyclers that night included Danny Glover, David DeLuise (the son of Dom), Steve Jones of The Sex
Pistols and Richard Stark.

Cher tweeted of the night:

I just got home from Santa Monica Pier! Tim had 250 bikes and riders
riding for veteran’s ‘The Heroes Project’ – a charity that he and I
started! There were beautiful young marines with as many as 3 1/2 limbs
missing! Our best, bravest and brightest!…There were so many ppl there
but i wanted to sit down quietly & speak with this boy! I met a
Totally cool young man w/all his limbs gone.

According to RadarOnline.com

Cher astonished all at the event with her down to earth and laid back friendly attitude. She openly spoke for hours to war veterans and one source from the event said “Everyone was shocked to see a superstar like Cher, looking so casual and normal on the Santa Monica Pier,” There were no signs of diva demands, it was just the down to earth CHER we all love.

Cher even had a short work out on a spinning bike and dedicated her time to signing autographs for fans as well as posing for photos with the disabled veterans involved in The Heroes Project.
“She was super sweet,” one fan says, “a real classic icon that is so down to earth”. “Fans kept walking up to her and asking for autographs and she happily obliged. She also took photos with everyone who asked.”

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/09/cher-fans-photos-war-vets-911-benefit

Cher posing with disabled vets:

Sweet Cher Finds

September 2, 2012 / Cher Scholar / 2 Comments

If you do a search for "Sonny Cher live 1977" you get about six copies of this photo of Sonny kicking, hair flying, in his Vegas Suit. A fuzzy bootleg of some 1977 shows are kicking around. When Cher scholar Robrt alerted me to one of them, attached was the set list from a Hawaii show. Pretty sweet walk down memory lane.

"All I Ever Need Is You"
Dialogue where Sonny comments on Cher's Singing/Hair/Sitting
Down as well as their current status
"I Can See Clearly Now"
Harry Nilsson's "Without You"
"United We Stand"
Cher's Solo of "The Way of Love"
Dialogue with Sonny and Cher from 1965
"Baby Don't Go"
"All I Really Want To Do"
"Laugh At Me" and dialogue of story behind the song
"You Better Sit Down Kids"
"The Beat Goes On"
"Isn't She Lovely" with Sonny and Chastity Skit
Cher's Solo of "Send In The Clowns"
Sonny's Solo of "Bang, Bang, My Baby Shot Me Down"
Sonny dialogue
"A Cowboy's Work is Never Done"
"I Got You Babe"

What's interesting to me is how much of Sonny you get in the late-period Sonny & Cher shows. I wonder if this was because Cher had professionally "checked out" of the act and was more interested in her 1977 shows with Gregg Allman.

The old Yahoo Cherfreaks list has also been posting some gems. This "day in history" link was particularly illuminating: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/This+history+August+1973/7159763/story.html

Sonny & Cher, in full celebrity glory, are pictured disembarking from a chartered Playboy jet for a show in Vancouver in 1973. News has gotten out they their marriage is on the rocks but they are not officially divorced.

The media firestorm (ala TomKat) is about to begin. The reporter calls them "The Salvatore Bonos" and "wealthy swingers" and said the black plane they arrived in looked like a sinister shark cruising down the runway. Sonny was wearing sequined skin-tight Levis and when asked about their marital woes, "Cher looked blank."

Another Yahoo poster provided this awesome online flip-book of Cher photos for a style issue of New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/08/cher-look-book.html

Whenever people bemoan the lack of imagination on today's red carpets, Cher's name always comes up as an example of someone who successfully pushes the envelope. From her patterned bell-bottoms and waist-long, silky straight hair in the seventies to her shiny spandex and sky-high, spiky wigs of the eighties, she transformed herself too often to have a signature style of note, yet each look is unmistakably her own. Never one to shy away from belly-baring mesh tops, gold lamé, or headdresses of any kind, Cher always manages to walk the line between wacky and elegant. Enjoy a look back at her otherworldly outfits from the sixties to today.

My favorites are these (click to enlarge):

Feb 28 1979 philly

Cher in New Diana Vreeland Documentary

August 17, 2012 / Cher Scholar / 3 Comments

My cousin sent me news that a new Diana Vreeland documentary is scheduled to be released September 21. Diana Vreeland met Cher in 1967 and told her she had "a pointed head." However, it was Vreeland who introduced Cher to modeling in countless Vogue spreads from the late 1960s throughout the 1970s.

In the documentary trailer, Vreeland is credited with the idea of pushing a photo subject's faults, imploring her artists to "make that the most beautiful thing about them."

So brilliant.

And when legal wrangling with Sonny kept Cher off of television in 1974, Cher said it was these modeling projects that kept her afloat.

More information on Cher and Vreeland: http://www.elle.com/fashion/spotlight/fashion-high-notes-446376-5#slide-5

For more information on the movie and to see (clips of Cher) in the trailer:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2186771/She-discovered-Twiggy-advised-Jackie-O-ruled-fashion-long-Anna-Wintour-How-Diana-Vreeland-original-Devil-Wears-Prada.html

How can we forget the following amazing collaborations between Cher, Vreeland and photographer Richard Avedon…

Cher doing one of many interpretations of Native American. Cher scholar Bruce points out that this photo is by Stephen Paley and not Richard Avedon, as part of the late 60s Jackson Highway album photo shoot. But it's super kewl so I'm keeping it up.

Cher in 60s mod-mode.

Elaborations on hair poses.

Full 1970s awesomeness!

More elaborations on hair and some of my favorites, the staircase photos.

Cher Album News (Timberland, Pink, Gaga, Aguilera)

August 10, 2012 / Cher Scholar / 5 Comments

Went to Kansas to visit in-laws last week and while I was gone tweets and news bulletins went a-flyin about Cher's new album. Cher also tweeted some sweet new pics. An overview:

— There's a Lady Gaga duet we already knew about called "The Greatest Thing"

— There are two songs written by Pink, who says of contributing songs that it was "such an honor…I'm such a fan." One of the titles is supposedly "I Walk Alone." I'm such a fan of Pink being a fan of Cher!

— There may also be a duet with Christina Aguilera. This is far from confirmed and would be ironic considering they made a musical together but have never sang together. I know. Makes no sense to me either.

— Producer Timberland is also involved in one song at least.

— Cher is very happy with the results so far, often tweeting her excitement on various songs. "It's funny, I'm always drawn to same kind of song – overcoming pain, being strong enough and believing in love!"…"I worked hard last night! I go in and sing for ninety minutes to two hours straight! I don't like sitting down until the song is finished! Usually I can ace one song in one session! 'You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me' took two hours; 'If I Could Turn Back Time' took ninety minutes! I'm fast!" …"Many artists take a lot of time but more time wouldn't make my vocals better. I don't mean to sound pompous, it's the only way I know! 'Believe' was the worst time in studio – that's why we used pitch machine! It just wasn't working".

— A single is now slated for October not September and an album around Christmas. This will be here before you know it!

Cher also posted current photos, including the pink one at the top and the leopard-print jammies she said she wore to the studio.

As Cher Scholar, I am absolutely salivating over modern pictures of Cher recording in the studio! Is this even a studio? To be a fly on that wall, a bug on that crazy carpet. Below you can see the producers at the board.

Cher News also gives an overview of reports that Cher is working with RedOne (producer of "The Greatest Thing"), J-Roc, Kuk Harrell, and Jason Derülo. And then there's Diane Warren. More obvious rhymes and vague sentiments to be expected there. It would be sweet to have this album be peppered with so many young divas and producers.

To read more:

http://idolator.com/6802571/cher-christina-aguilera-timbaland

http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a398166/pink-talks-writing-new-track-for-cher-its-such-an-honor.html

Cher News has extensive blow by blow reports:

Cher Butt

June 21, 2012 / Cher Scholar / 0 Comments

On Wednesday Cher attended the premiere of Morgan Freeman's new movie, The Magic of Belle Isle.

Cher tripped off the pirazz-o-sphere with her tight pants, showing off some toned big butt.

Wow. Is that butt ferreal??

I don't know what is more jaw-dropping, that gauntlet-thrown-down-to-J-Lo butt or those 70s-sized platform shoes!

The movie also stars, as Cher tweets…

'Also DEAR FRIEND Virgina Madsen Stars. Her brother was married 2 my sis G!'

No one believes me when I tell them this but Cher's sister Georganne was once married to actor Michael Madsen. See photo below.

More pictures:

– http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2162471/Never-old-leggings-Cher-defies-66-years-steps-skintight-pants.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

– http://www.toofab.com/2012/06/21/cher-leggings-turn-back-time-magic-of-belle-isle-photos/

Moonstruck over Mothers

June 21, 2012 / Cher Scholar / 0 Comments

I finished ready The Unruly Woman by Kathleen Rowe and it has only one section of one chapter about Cher and the movie Moonstruck. But it's packed with goodies. Rowe does a study of many romantic comedies including It Happened One Night, Sylvia Scarlett, Bringing Up Baby, Ball of Fire and The Lady Eve among others. She singles out Moonstruck for many things, one being its inclusion of a mother-figure in a traditional romantic comedy.

She states,

"Comedy in mainstream narrative film usually makes its case against the father with very little attention to the mother or daughter. Comedy may deflate Oedipus and show him to be a fool, but it still places him at the heart of the story. Comedy is generally guilty of symbolic matricide. [The young woman, or bride, is seen as] a token of exchange between men [and] mothers rarely hold any power to transfer. [In] the subjugation of female by male [the girl] must sever the most important feminine identification in her life, her mother, for an exclusive attachment to a man, a stand-in for her father. Adrienne Rich [how serendipitous, I just did a profile of Rich yesterday in another blog] describes this rent between mother and daughter, ignored in our culture, as 'the essential female tragedy: we acknowledge Lear, Hamlet and Oedipus as embodiments of the human tragedy; but there is no presently enduring recognition of mother-daughter passion and rapture.'"

Moonstruck is an exception because it centers not only on Cher's character but her mothers: "Both are at turning points in their relationships with men."

"In contrast to the men, Moonstruck women have a clearer sense of who they are. Loretta is a paradigmatic woman on top, enhanced by the strong unruly off screen presence Cher brings to the part….she holds up her own autonomy as long as possible. In doing so, she follows the same course as the unruly virgins in the classical romantic comedies."

Rowe also discusses how the use of ethnicity serves the comedy, how the film uses ideas of death and life, she explicates the meaning behind character names and the symbolism of the moon.

Rowe also explains how the movie alludes to Puccini's La Boheme, particularly between the couples of Ronny and Loretta and Mimi and Rudolpho: the use of ordinary vs. mythic characters, the symbolic scenes with snow, and some symbolic hand-holding moments. However, "Mimi dies…and Loretta remains a woman on top; while Mimi wastes away in isolation, Loretta will draw strength from….her mother and a community that extends beyond the couple."

Most importantly, "Loretta doesn't have to give up her mother to get her man."

This argument by Rowe enticed me to go over all the scenes between Loretta and her mother in the movie, and to realize how realistic they were to normal family relationships between mothers and daughters, the support, the nagging, the daily business of living, right down to the scenes of Loretta's mom serving breakfast in the kitchen.

Rowe ends the book by reminding us that unruly women, in Natalie Davis's words "widen behavioral options for women." She ends talking about Roseanne Barr Arnold (Just Plain Roseanne)…

"Her performance in front of the camera, marked so strongly with her presence behind the camera, is a reminder of the authorship inherent in the performances of other of other women—from Mae West to Cher—who, by making unruly spectacles of themselves, have also made a difference."

Another fan blog post for Moonstruck: http://www.triloquist.net/2012/05/my-love-of-moonstruck.html

Photo Tour of Gregg & Cher

May 4, 2012 / Cher Scholar / 0 Comments

Reading reviews of Gregg Allman’s new autobiography "My Cross to Bear" I notice quite frequently that reviewers go straight to find out what Allman has to say about Cher. Columnist Liz Smith says it best.

"President Obama is on the cover of [Rolling Stone]. As a politically concerned citizen, I knew I should have headed straight for the president's interview with Jann Wenner, the magazine's editor and publisher. But the gossip columnist in me took over…Anyway, I went right to Allman's memories of Cher.

As much as people want to claim they are too cool to be interested in Cher, they secretly are.

Here's a 14-photo image tour of that old Hollywood tabloid couple we loved to talk trash about:

Their formal side

Their country side

Category: Cher Outfit Watch (Page 6 of 9)

Cher Scholar Has Been Under the Weather This Holiday Season

Go Vote: Kristen Stewart V. Cher: Who Rocks a Sheer Bodysuit Best?

Cher Goes Out on the Town

Sweet Cher Finds

Cher in New Diana Vreeland Documentary

More Recording Pics Posted

Cher Album News (Timberland, Pink, Gaga, Aguilera)

Cher Butt

Moonstruck over Mothers

Photo Tour of Gregg & Cher

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