{"id":1638,"date":"2014-03-08T13:49:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T13:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/cher-in-the-1970s\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:24:47","slug":"cher-in-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2014\/03\/cher-in-the-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher in the 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a3fccfcdd2970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cherengstead\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a3fccfcdd2970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a3fccfcdd2970b-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Cherengstead\" \/><\/a>Cher\u2019s life an career through the mid-1970s is what the book <em>Strong Enough<\/em> is about. It goes into the struggles the Sonny &amp; Cher had from 1973 to 1975, including the fact that Cher grew up and Sonny\u2019s fatal flaw was not recognizing the changes. Josiah Howard interviews witnesses to speak on how Sonny was behaving with everyone and the strain on the whole staff. He talks about their cancelled shows, what the tabloids were saying, the bloat (in many senses, including the title\u2019s) of their last record album <em>Mama Was A Rock and Roll Singer\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I appreciated how the book slowed down to really detail:<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;- Cher\u2019s appearances on award shows<br \/>&#8211; Cher\u2019s Emmy and Grammy nominations and wins<br \/>&#8211; Details on their divorce (Cher used Lucy\u2019s divorce lawyer) and how they behaved with each other at concerts<br \/>&#8211; How CBS and MCA responded to the drama<br \/>&#8211; How the lawsuits settled out<br \/>&#8211; Cher\u2019s outings to concerts and parties<br \/>&#8211; Which major magazines she appeared on the cover of while she was a \u201cnewsstand staple.\u201d We also learn how the tabloid <em>The Star<\/em> built itself on Cher stories around this time.<\/p>\n<p>Cher&#39;s love life after leaving Sonny has been covered extensively through the years but this book goes into Sonny\u2019s relationships with \u201cmodels and dancers\u201d and his long term affair with \u201csecretary\u201d Connie Foreman, how it was Sonny on his dates with Connie that actually blew open the story about his split with Cher. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=sonny+bono+connie+foreman&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=pIIbU9vzDdTpoATO_IGgCQ&amp;ved=0CC8QsAQ&amp;biw=1025&amp;bih=429\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">tabloid photos of Sonny &amp; Connie<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The book also goes into more detail than I\u2019ve ever seen about Sonny\u2019s solo show and the press surrounding it. How they unfortunately tried to spin him as Chaplinesque. We also learn about Cher\u2019s real reaction to the show. This biography is also the first one to deal with Sonny\u2019s Mimi Machu scandal. And the first Cher biography to track more fully the struggles she had with her father at this time, although I felt there was a lot more to tell here. Did he work for Sonny &amp; Cher (I heard he did), did he really try to make money off of his connection to Cher?<\/p>\n<p>The book combs through all the starting players of Cher\u2019s solo show, called simply <em>Cher<\/em> and not <em>The Cher Show<\/em>: George Schlatter, Art Fisher (and his affair with Sally Struthers), the head writer and the writing staff, set designer Robert Kelly (remember the Cher logo and the tongue set stage?), musical director Jimmy Dale, choreographers Tony Charmoli and Dee Dee Wood (I just saw that she did that unforgettable choreography for <em>Mary Poppins<\/em>), Ben Nye II doing makeup, her PR photographer John Engstead, producer Lee Miller, her unusual dressing room, the rock and roll guests she wanted on the show and who was unavailable, her sponsors. The book details the excitement at CBS during the first few shows with other stars and dancers dropping in.<\/p>\n<p>We learn again more about the beauty regimen: about her skin problems at the time (due to pancake makeup, Kleig lights, stress and bad eating), her Christina Smith eye lashes, lighting tricks used to hide acne, her hair darkenings (from warm Armenian brown to black), her Minnie Smith manicures, Jim Ortel hair and Renata Leuschner (Rena) wigs.<\/p>\n<p>The book also confirms CeeCee Bloom\u2019s character from Beaches was based on staff-writer Iris Rainer\u2019s experiences working with Cher.<\/p>\n<p>We learn about all the skits (in <em>fine<\/em> detail), what skits never aired, which were \u201cbanked,\u201d and how the show fared in the ratings and with the press as the weeks progressed. I found it ironic that CBS typically cut songs for original airings (famously for Raquel Welch, Bette Midler, The Spinners) and when the show finally re-aired on VH-1, the majority of the skits were cut out.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I could never get used to was Cher\u2019s move from the cut-up bitch on her show with Sonny to the hip-talking, ingratiating&#0160; nice girl on her solo show. &quot;Far out man.&quot; &quot;That\u2019s cool!\u201d This slangy, wanting-to-be-liked was ironically unlikable. Everyone seemed to prefer the stoic tough broad.<\/p>\n<p>From the start, the show seemed to have dysfunctions built in: staff fighting, the star\u2019s missed rehearsals and troubled private life encroaching on the schedule, inconsistent material, the show always suffered a lack of a strong point of view. Either because of this or encouraging the sense of something missing, often tapings occurred without a live audience.<\/p>\n<p>Although her femme fatal characters were mostly gone, the show did profess power to the gals with memes such as \u201cGirls are smarter,\u201d women behind the men, and \u201cTrashy Ladys\u201d skits.<\/p>\n<p>The book talks about how variety Shows were starting to decline around this time as detective shows were on the rise.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a73d8ae440970d-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rockford\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a73d8ae440970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a73d8ae440970d-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Rockford\" \/><\/a>This is why I find it interesting each time I hear a Cher reference on The Rockford Files (a show which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apeculture.com\/mediamorph\/murder.htm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">I watch obsessively<\/a> when I can):<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen two Cher references so far since I\u2019ve been re-watching them on ME TV: one episode was about the cut-throat LA real estate business. A real estate agent tells Rockford that he just sold a house to \u201cCher and Gregg.\u201d Interesting that viewers would know what that meant. Would they today? The other episode was about tabloid journalism and Rockford was hiding out at a tabloid on a private investigation on a burglary. Rockford bemoans the potential lack of privacy in hospital records and warns about the dangers of coming across \u201cCher\u2019s last physical.\u201d The tabloid office eventually burns down.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a3fccfcf4c970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oscars73\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a3fccfcf4c970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a3fccfcf4c970b-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Oscars73\" \/><\/a>Sonny &amp; Cher presenting Best Original Song at the 1973 Ocsars; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1HFyxPjGrps\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">watch them present<\/a> pretending to be couple-y.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a3fccfcf66970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grammys74\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a3fccfcf66970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01a3fccfcf66970b-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 184px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Grammys74\" \/><\/a>The 1974 Grammys appearance, Cher\u2019s first public appearance without Sonny.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cher\u2019s life an career through the mid-1970s is what the book Strong Enough is about. 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