a division of the Chersonian Institute
Awesome! You know I love me some Cher in cowboy hat. Is it just me?
Taken at the LA Airport:
My peoples carry my bags.
And new hippie chick photos two. Eh. I'm not as excited about those:
…just as Cher is not excited about these shoes.
But apparently is okay with these shoes.
Cher recently attended a Reach Out to Asia (ROTA) gala fundraiser looking sweet:
http://www.cherworld.com/news/?p=868
Here's a report on another sighting:
"Cher's got Kyle, babe: The oddest celeb charity pair ever" By Jay Busbee
Quick-hitter for you here — spotted this ad for some kind of charitable gala in Miami Thursday night, featuring — of all people — Cher and Kyle Busch. Wha … ?
Sure, Cher doesn't seem like a good match for NASCAR, but think about it — she's been rebuilt more times than one of Robby Gordon's cars, and at this point her makeup/plastic surgery team probably works as quickly as any pit crew.
Har.
Seriously [folks], the charity is to benefit Operation Helmet, which helps provide helmet upgrades to combat troops, so it's a good cause. And it's exclusive, too — only people who visit their website and pay $125 to $250 for a ticket are invited. Get to it!
Cher herself went on Auction:
Cher's fans can now bid on a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join the music icon in her personal suite for drinks and attend her Vegas show. Three auctions are currently ongoing on eBay to benefit The Heroes Project through the GlobalGiving Foundation.
The three auction lists, from November 9 until the 19th, offer tickets to Cher's show at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, a one-night hotel stay, and a meet-and-greet with Cher in her very own hotel suite. Winners will choose one date from December 5, 12, or 19.
All proceeds from the auction will benefit The Heroes Project, which aims to improve the care and protection of heroes through individual support, community empowerment and systematic change. As of November 15, the auctions have 32 to 51 bids and have reached $3,100.
So I wonder who won. And come on! 3k? She doesn’t auction herself off everyday!
While I was away, Chaz made an appearance on the American morning show Good Morning America:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1229359/Chers-son-Chaz-Bono-speaks-sex-change-reveals-I-felt-like-boys.html
And a website posted pics of Gregg Allman (then-as-in-with-Cher and now now-as-in-without).
By the way, before John and I made our grand entrance at our wedding, we showed a video slide show of wedding pictures of our friends and family, interspersed with celebrity wedding photos of course. These included Princess Diana, Johnny Cash, all Elizabeth Taylor unions, and Gregg and Cher).
The Atlantic box set Atlantic Records: Time Capsule: http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=1609217
Artists featured on the set include Ray Charles, The Coasters, The Drifters, John Coltrane, Booker T. & The MG’s, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sonny & Cher, Aretha Franklin, The Bee Gees, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Yes, Genesis, Hall & Oates, Stevie Nicks, INXS, Rush, En Vogue, Tori Amos, Stone Temple Pilots, Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Sugar Ray, Lil’ Kim, Brandy, Kid Rock, Sean Paul, Staind, Death Cab For Cutie, James Blunt, Gnarls Barkley, T.I., Panic! At The Disco, Paramore, Flo Rida, Jason Mraz, Shinedown and tons more.
Has anybody heard anything by Death Cab For Cutie?
As Sonny says in Good Times, everyone's a critic today!
Seriously, mostly people sigh wistfully for the woebegone days of Cher’s fake-nakedness. This guy, Johnny Dee, blames Cher for the slutty stylings of today. But we all know pop culture was slutifying long before Cher came along with her navel-sequins and scandalous arm pits.
Porn meets pop: Cher has a lot to answer for
How did a basque and fishnets become the uniform of girlie pop? It all started in 1989…
Oh my…so much to blog about…so little energy with this flu I caught on my honeymoon!
The Cherlights: my friends chipped in and got me the ringmaster doll for my wedding! What a surprise! I love it!
I also want to talk about the end of the book Julie & Julia which I read on my honeymoon. I didn't like the book but I did feel the end related in some ways to this blog. I also can't wait to talk about the honeymoon: a drive up to Oregon and back. Between my mom's hometown, the dreary fishing & lumber village of Port Orford and the town to the north, Bandon, there is a Bono road. I remembered this from my childhood. There was also a local fishing boat called Half Breed.
Anyway, the wedding was quite fairy tale. And I'll describe it in detail as soon as possible.Here are some good pics:
Taken by our photographer Stephanie Howard
Our venue, the Redondo Beach Historic Library, taken by Stephanie Howard
Before the wedding, taken my by mother-in-law, Donna McCray
My groom and me behind the library, taken by Donna McCray
Our tables, taken by my boss, Marc Salvatierra
Father daughter dance to Sonny & Cher's "Turn Around", taken by Marc
Taken by Marc
Our table cards made to look like library card catalog files, taken by Dave Fein
Our seating cards made to look like library cards, taken by Marc Salvatierra
Taken by Stephanie Howard
So Cherkids, I’m leaving. And I’m going to be gone for a few weeks…like a few weeks meaning three. Three whole weeks. Please don’t forget me when I’m gone. Please don’t buy an overabundance of Olivia Newton John albums. And please don’t take any wooden nickels. Just be good. Be safe. Is that too much to ask? I’ll getting married. By some miraculous stroke of universe functioning. So just keep it cool for a little bit. Okay?
But before I go, I do what to leave you with two small Cher items for discussion in your own small groups and committees:
I received this note from my friend Coolia a few days ago.
Subject: Top 40 1989
I was just listening to a countdown by the original VJs on Sirius radio from the top forty of this week in 1989. Cher came in at 38 with just like Jesse James and 35 with turn back time. The VJ said that turn back time reached #3. I thought it hit #1, no? Also they had a quote from Cher saying she didn't like Jesse James because it had too many lyrics
So I wrote back saying TBT, although one of Cher’s iconic hits, only made it into the top ten, reaching #3. Although it did reach #1 on the Adult Contemporary Chart and it did hit #1 in Norway allegedly although I wasn’t there to confirm this. So why did it stall out at 3? Does anyone want to put forth a theory?
This also passed my desk this week: David Bowie and Marianne Faithful singing IGUB.
I dig this crazy version, I really do…including the ending guitar riff, the nutty backups and Marianne’s muck ups.
…but “We won’t find out until we go?” Does he mean until we kick it? What are your thoughts?
Please discuss all Cher-matters with civility and respect for all diva-creeds. Larger things are happening in the world…like my wedding. 🙂
While I’ve been beyond-my-mind busy. Beyond, beyond, beyond. Muti-tasking every minute of the day. As I type this, I’m thinking about an email I need to write to the caterer about the groom adding another person to the rsvp list a day after I turned final numbers into them and two days after printing and laminating all the seating “library” cards! …which are very very kewl, by the way. Do you know how calming the lamination process can be to a frazzled bride-to-be?
Do you know how stressful Beauty (or in some cases non-beauty) can be? And I'm up to my ears in programs, programs, programs!! In times like these, I depend on Cher World for my Cher news stories…
In Santa Moncia Cher goes to see Kooza show and we see her pictured at the gate.
So we do know she is going to see Cirque de Soleil shows.
More info on the show:
http://theguide.latimes.com/santa-monica/events-and-festivals/cirque-du-soleil-kooza-event
At the Coloseum, Cher surprised the five-millionth Coloseum ticket-buyer since Celine Dion opened the theater back in 2003 with back stage passes and front row seats. Lucky Jason Hernandez!
That story also had this tidbit:
Also rumours are circulating that CHER is keen to tour Europe and possibly the world with a SUPER tour next year after the release of her next studio album and movie Burlesque. Cher is said to be in talks with management and whilst her Farewell Tour was supposed to be Cher’s last, the last laugh may be with Cher with a Farewell Farewell Tour Part II.
Ick.
Cher was also visited at the Coloseum by Liza Minnelli recently. Sweet!! I love these gals. They should do
a single! Or what about a whole album: Cher and Other Fantasies Deux. Duets with all women: Tina, Liza, Stevie Nicks, Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, (not Aretha please), some ballads, some dance, some real grrrl power! A few young gals, a few older gals, a few forgotten gals. Sigh. That would be sweeter than sweet.
Speaking of sweet and tear-jerking, Cher met with a long time fan and pancreatic cancer-victim recently. I love this story, I really do.
Tom Moore is 53 years old and in hospice care, which means he is in his final stages of his cancer. To celebrate his wife’s 50th birthday, they decided to go to Vegas, renew their vows and see the Cher shew. Cher obliged, gifting them a room at Caesars, a limo, VIP tickets, and back-stage passes. Tom has had a crush on Cher since childhood and owns all her albums. It’s a really touching story by Cathy Dyson, detailing their trip backstage and how Kathy contacted Cher.
“I’ve led a blessed life,” he said, trying to keep his eyes open through the pain and fog of medicine.
“I’ve met the love of my life, I’ve traveled the world and served the greatest country on earth.” Then, as Kay patted his knee, Tom added: “I’ve had a good life, a very good life.”
And Cher At Home…Cher, like the rest of us, has body issues.
She said:
“I was underweight all my life. So thin, no matter what I did. I was one of those active kids. Then, a few years ago, for the first time ever, I suddenly had to watch what I ate.
“Your metabolism changes, and if you eat the same, it goes to all the wrong places. On the hips, round the middle, the arms. I had to up the exercise to get less of a result.”
I can relate.
…and tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight for an exclusive interview.
I dip my toe in the pool of Cher news yesterday just in time to see the blast of Chaz stories on his Entertainment Tonight appearance. If you miss it, I’m sure it will be on the Internets soon.
Take home news from the press stories:
But then all of this really is. Which brings up the debate between what is personal and what can be public. Granted it's hard to make that quick decision when you're nervous and being interviewed.
But this morning I was finding a hard time drawing the line between the two objectively. Everything I came up with seemed arbitrary and well…personal to me. Should the line stop with anything I would feel uncomfortable hearing my Dad talk about? No? That’s too loaded with parental discomfort. My brother? No, same issue. My guy friends? Well, every social circle has different boundaries. I feel perfectly comfortable talking about sex with anybody but you may not. How about shaving? How about surgery? It’s all a bit blurry.
I’m always curious about Chaz's continuing vocation because he seems unsettled in that area and he’s had such a patch-work history career-wize. From what I can tell, he’s now working as a gay rights activist (and author) but I wonder if the book will be co-written again.
Here are some news outlets for more info:
Feeling out of the loop in Cher list news and down and tired in the midst of editing processional music in music editing software I was learning, I went to ebay for the first time in quite a while to cheer myself up with Cher goods.
Wait a minute. I just realized I’m looking for a break out of my wedding obsession with my celebrity obsession…that’s not good.
Sigh. It’s all relative I guess.
Anyway, I found some Caesars’ brochures and the new Caesars Players Vegas magazine out with a new Cher spread and interview. And it's the best new interview in a long while – great layout (although I miss a magazine's original Cher photos; why must they capitulate to using Cher's PR photos?).
The Chrome Hearts fashion label is again quoted prominently.
There's some good info here. Cher has an iPhone with some calendar feature where she seems to be adding spontaneous messages to Sonny. I wondered if this worked somewhat like a diary but I have yet to get my iPhone (can't wait!) so I'm not exactly sure what she was referring to.
Cher remembers that Chas helped the show behind the scenes during the last Caesars run of the late 70s. I remember pictures of her in the 1979 People Magazine looking quite helpful. Cher went to the gun range with her brother-in-law and fired a 9-millimeter and an automatic rifle, and that she likes to try things she’s afraid of. Which is a good thing. My bf talked me into taking a gun-firing class a few years ago. You never know when you’re going to need those odd skills. Cher wants to take tennis lessons too…all her friends play. She says she loved sports in school and was real tomboy.
To keep in shape it's weights, running, ballet, yoga, and the occasional hike on mountain trail with the aforementioned iPod. Cher loves to sing outdoors to the tunes of Springsteen, Bob Seger, Hall & Oats, “all the old people” she says.
The reporter states “the stage of her show in essence doubles as a runway.” And I think it helps to frame her show in this way. Which is why I feel Cher would be so awesome on Project Runway as a dual guest with Bob Mackie.
Cher says, “On a given night, a song will be more fun to sing or seem newer and I sort of forget I’ve done it hundreds of times.”
Their filmography of her does claim Drop Out in 2010 and Burlesque in 2011 (wah! Long wait). This confirms with JimmyDean posted a week or so back from his sleuthing at the Cher Store. Cher says she picked the film Drop Out because she loved its 14-year old humor…it made her laugh. She liked Tropic Thunder for the same reason.
The discography only covers Cher albums with the exception of the Allman and Woman album; and All I Really Want to Dois completely out of order, listed as her 3rd album in 1966. Backstage is called Cher Backstage. She delayed working on a new album because she chose to vacation during her last break. Tough titties for us, huh?
Here another fun pics I found on ebay last weekend: the original late 70s Caesars program!
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