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The sale for the Sonny & Cher convertibles has passed but you can still see some great pics of their iconic matching 60s wheels.
The sale took place from October 13-15 at the Mandalay Bay Casino: https://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2016/10/12/relive-the-1960s-with-a-pair-of-custom-mustang-convertibles-built-for-sonny-cher/
There’s lots of love spilling over on the web-o-shere. It’s literally a virtual Internet Party! Just look at all the hip (and some unusual) sites and magazines celebrating Cherness today!
This is a saying I learned from the McCray family: Cher, I’m glad you were born! You are 70 years of fabulousness today! I feel like the ball on Times Square should drop or something.
Here’s the massive list of love (and one snipe) as of 2 p.m. MST. I’ve broken it down into scholarship categories. Fun with essays, accolades and photo reels!
Cher prepares to celebrate her 70th birthday (Reuters)
Happy Birthday from Money Magazine
Singer Cher turns 70, fans pay tribute (Townhall.com)
Cher just turned HOW old? (Mercury News)
Cher Can’t Turn Back Time: She Turns 70 Today (WBT—Conservative Talk Radio) — Remember, these are the folks who said Cher is some has-been no one remembers!
Maybe she can turn back time: Cher at 70 (Deutsche Welle) – SNAP!
Cher Turns 70, Still Knows How to Turn Back Time (Inquisitr)
Can you tell if these celebs are older or younger than Cher (Metro UK)
Turning 70, Cher still a 'hot artist' after 50 years (Inforum)
10 Reasons Why Cher's “Believe” Is the Biggest Club Record Ever (Thump)
Cher's Official Top 20 biggest selling downloads revealed (Official Charts.com)
Mashable Cher in the studio (Mashable)
Happy 70th birthday Cher! Relive the time she played every single part in this West Side Story medley (Digital Spy)
Cher turns 70 Today – watch her take a massive tumble in this rare vintage clip (Daily Star UK)
Happy birthday Cher! Celebrate with her 5 greatest film roles (Arizona Central) – good to see Jimmy Dean love in there but you know how I feel about Mermaids!
See the Evolution of Cher’s Style (Time)
All Hail Cher, Queen of the Red Carpet Rebels (Vogue)
Can You ‘Believe’ How Many Hairstyles Cher Has Had Over The Years? (Huffington Post)
Cher’s Show-Stopping Style Redefines What It Means To Be 70 (Huffington Post)
Cher's Most Outrageous Outfits (Huffington Post)
Cher at 70: seven iconic style moments (The Guardian UK)
23 of the singer's most outrageous fashion over the years (BT)
The many looks of Cher (CNN)
Cher’s Changing Looks (Wonderwall)
Cher Turns 70! Celebrate By Revisiting The Pop Icon’s Most Glamorous Looks (Idolator)
Cher Hair! Celebrating the Singer’s 16 Best Hair Moments (Vogue)
24 Times Cher Was Sassiness Personified (Elle UK)
10 Times Cher Nailed Twitter (Newsweek)
Her 5 Most Shocking Moments (Express UK)
Cher’s Most Outrageous Tweets of the Past Year (Hollywood Reporter)
Happy 70th Birthday, Cher! 23 Times The Dark Lady Wasn’t At A Loss For Words (Logo)
A Look Back (ABC)
You Haven't Seen the Last of Me: The Phenomenon of Cher (Biography.com)
Legendary singer’s best moments (OK! UK)
70 Things we love about Cher (Gay Star News) — 70 things! That's impressive!
A look back at her outstanding singing and acting career (DW.com)
Inside the glamorous life of Cher (Marie Claire)
10 amazing facts about the pop superstar (Digital Spy)
The living legend’s most iconic moments (Attitude UK)
Celebrate Cher's 70th birthday with five memorable moments (Lancaster Online)
Cher then and now (WTAE-Pittsburgh)
Cher’s Career in numbers (International Business Times)
CNN’s Cher Fast Facts (CNN)
Fast-Forward Through 5 Decades of Cher (Yahoo! News)
In other very important news, Elton John and Judy Garland were declared top gay icons by OnePoll.com. This is an interesting choice of Elton John. At first I didn’t like it but it is growing on me.
This choice shows us that gay icon represents more than just a singer gay men or women love, but a person in the position of ultimate representation and activism. John’s recent efforts to adopt a son have highlighted family-value issues as understood within and outside of the gay community. So, it’s a fine choice.
It is interesting to see how the male/female winners and contenders were different in the ways they tended to be iconic:
The male list was predominantly made up of gay men – including late Queen singer Freddie Mercury, British TV star Stephen Fry and ‘Faith’ hitmaker George Michael – apart from soccer hunk David Beckham, who is married to Victoria Beckham.
Meanwhile, the female list was full of glamorous female stars – including singers Kylie Minogue, Madonna and Cher – rather than famous lesbians.
So the wedding is in high gear, just under 60 days away. We’re busy deciding things, arranging things, assembling things. The table cards that I made, like the seating cards, had to be redone by the designer who did the invitations (I have good ideas; but suck at execution). We’re getting great feedback on the invite and I’ve been stressed about the more Me elements of the wedding, like my hair, my skin, my weight. But we’re scanning for readings, organizing favors and all that stuff.
Meanwhile, I saw Big Fantwo weekends ago and although it was really good and Patton Oswalt’s performance was Oscar-worthy, I was essentially disappointed that his character never, not for a moment, was able to see his own self-destructive behavior. Not even a glimpse of it sideways in a mirror. So there was no growth there, which to me was essentially nihilistic and depressing.
And maybe character growth wasn’t this writer/director’s big aim; but seeing the failings of the modern celebrity-obsessed for an hour or so on the big screen without some kind of insight seems like pointless entertainment, or rather…more of the same thing that it describes.
But I did take time to watch the Roseanne video of Cher and Chaz, mostly due to the good comments it received in response to my last post. Let me just say comedy is highly subjective and there were no big LOLs for me here.
Cher is dressed circa the 90s, but makes asides to the camera like on her TV show in the 70s. Chaz is just a big bear of a guy in a blond wig and rainbow shirt. I get it.
I did get some low-level chuckles: rhyming beaver (bevah) with diva, the basement full of Sanctuary knick-knacks, the pink berry joke got a snort, as did the f-ing retarded headdress line. But Cher’s actress sounded too whiny for me and the writing was way too talky.
By the way, Roseanne didn’t write or appear in these skits. She just produced them.
In episode 2, Sonny makes an angelic appearance, but looks more like Michael Jackson. The Elijah reference is surprisingly insider (Elijah just isn't as famous as Chaz), and Cher’s headdress keeps bouncing around in the over-the-shoulder shots, annoyingly upstaging the Sonny (which is just an overkill short joke).
For me, this skit tries a bit too hard, goes on for too long, and has the quality of amateur night. And the theme song is just dippy. If you love Family Guy and Flight of the Concords or read any kind of snarky celebrity blog Dlisted or Defamer, the bar is set awfully high for irreverent, snarky pop culture roastings.
The kids today are faster, meaner, smarter and at the end of the day funnier.
Again, Eddie Izzard – what say you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjC3R6jOtUo
In other news: William Shatner came out recently in support of Lucy the Elephant. The USS Missouri is dry docked. And predictably the Witches of Eastwich TV show sucks.
Maureen McCormick’s book about life as a Brady Bunch kid, among other subjects is now available. Cher Scholar Robrt sent me the excerpt where McCormick writes about meeting Cher.
The setup: the group The Brady Kids had their first musical appearance at a music industry show at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Sonny and Cher were there and met the Brady’s backstage.
I was enamored of Sonny and Cher. I couldn’t take my eyes off Cher. It was the first time I had been around a woman who thoroughly mesmerized people, who commanded your attention with her looks. We were introduced to her backstage. She was with her daughter, Chastity, a tiny blond cherub with her mother’s expressions. Eve (Plumb) held Chastity’s hand and sweetly asked, “Can you say ‘elephant’?”
Before she could respond, Cher cracked, “She can say a hell of a lot more than elephant, that’s for sure.”
First of all, in my fantasy version of this episode Cher says “She can f*#king say a lot more than elephant, that's for sure.” I don’t know why but that’s more believable to me for some reason.
Secondly, this brief exchange is interesting on many levels. For one, it shows how caustic and coarse Cher could be even among teen celebrities and her own kid. I’m not judging that; but I can attest to being jarred by it the first time I read Cher's language peppered with the f-bomb all through that People Magazine article of 1979. I was nine years old and sick with the flu at the time and my parents brought me home a milkshake and this Cher gift (Cher gifts becoming somewhat of a rare occurrence after it started to occur to them that I wasn’t outgrowing this Cher fetish). And this was right when my illusions of Cher being the classiest, vulgar-free princess were first shattered. I f*#king got over it but it took a while.
Secondly, it also shows how even the most lusted after teen blonde icon of the early 70s, Marsha 
Brady, #1 on every boys ToDo list and #1 on every gals ToLookLike list, was actually enamored of Cher who she saw as fully commanding with her looks; and meanwhile Cher is coveting the look of blonde princesses such as her mom, sister and Marsha-Brady-types. It’s insane, absolutely the stuff Dr. Seuss Sneetches fables are made of and evidence that our collective insecurities cause us to chase our own tales like idiots.
And not only could Chastity say the world elephant, she had probably already ridden one in that parade by then.
Beyonce cites Cher as a influence:
"I love that in the seventies Cher and Diana Ross looked like superstars and never played it safe. When they were onstage, they gave you drama—and I love drama."
By the way, that outfit is uber-Cher.
I will be on a two-week hiatus from I Found Some Blog in order to work on a family reunion and my parents’ 50th Anniversary shindig. If I come back sane, I’ll tell you all about it. There is a chance we may never speak again.
So it’s a bummer that my last pre-hiatus post has to be about Cher fans behaving badly. Well, who knows if this arrested guy in the news was even a real Cher fan. He claimed his parents worked for S&C or something as he was grabbing at Cher’s hips at Tootsies Orchid Lounge, a famous honky tonk in Nashville. Yes, the man was plastered so who even knows what kind of a ‘Cher fan’ he was sober. And frankly, I think only sober fans should count.
There was a lot of fans behaving badly last week. Paparazzi (who are ultimately working on behalf of pop-culture junkies or fans in general) were attacked by surfers in Malibu. Could it be that the LA public is finally taking charge of an issue the authorities have been struggling over for too long?
Apparently photographers were at the beach stalking Matthew McConaughey and some local surfers got angry and pummeled a few of them. Here’s the LA Times story about it.
But the real story here is that paparazzi anger many more people in LA than the celebrities they stalk. The unfamous also feel the strain. A friend of mine from Larchmont recently reported that one day she couldn’t get from her car to her own apartment building as the paparazzi swarm wouldn’t let her pass on her own sidewalk. She had to bully her way through. Then when she reached her front steps she found them sitting there smoking on them. Who were they stalking? Lindsey Lohan on a movie location.
Articles about Cher in Nashville and the arrest are all over:
There are two peripheral subjects I’d like to talk about this week.
For one, during my morning radio this week, the movie Moonstruckwas featured prominently. Apparently a New Yorker named Harriet was thrown out of the Democratic Party’s Rules and Bylaws meeting last weekend (the one regarding the Florida and Michigan delegates) for refusing to stop sounding like Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck. The Stephanie Miller Showkept doing funny between Harriet’s “you’re throwing the election away and for what..?” with Cher’s Moonstruck-mom’s “Your whole life’s goin down the toilet.” Then they’d do the Cher drop “Snap out of it.”
For the record, Cher was supporting Hillary. I liked her reasoning: men have mucked it up for too long. However, I have been supporting Obama because every time Hillary gives a speech or makes an argument in a debate, she talks with the same spin that makes me crazy when the Republicans do it. I know Hillary is supposed to be a great gal behind the scenes; I know Obama and Hillary have basically the same platforms; I know Obama could be a slick as slick is, too, just like any other politician and not the wonderkind we're all making him out to be. But I have more respect for the campaigns he’s run thus far, including his civility under fire, his financial acuity with his fundraising, and his leadership with his staff.
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