{"id":465,"date":"2020-10-13T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/the-spirit-of-katharine-hepburn-award\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:12:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:12:19","slug":"the-spirit-of-katharine-hepburn-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2020\/10\/the-spirit-of-katharine-hepburn-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 3, 2020, Cher officially received her Spirit of Katharine Hepburn award, including an interview with Ann Nyberg at Cher's house. You can watch the full program on the KATE YouTube site: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CtIVjM1oUOI&feature=emb_logo<\/a><\/p>\n

The fifth annual event was held virtually this year from Old Saybrook, Connecticut. "Believe" was the keyword organizers gave everyone to slip into their speeches. Donation were also accepted during the event. It kicked off with great quote by Katharine Hepburn: "Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough." The quote actually ends with this, "Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.\u201d<\/p>\n

They gave a short intro on cher and talked about her bold independence in 6 decades of show business. They aired a very short video retrospective of her work in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and "the naughties," ending with her 250-million-grossing Farewell tour, highest grossing tour by a woman, they said.<\/p>\n

Sponsors came on to congratulate Cher. The Governor of Connecticut came on and then the selection committee raised their Believe bellini drinks. At this point the fundraising was up to 34k.<\/p>\n

\"Igub\"<\/a>Jerrod Spector and his wife sang a cover of "I Got You Babe." She almost could be auditioning for the traveling show but she was pretty good. Jerrod called Cher his \u201cstage wife sort of\u201d and refers to Cher as \u201cthe madam herself.\u201d Donations jumped to 38K while they were singing.<\/p>\n

The Senators of Connecticut spoke next, Blumenthal saying Cher "has been enriching our lives so powerfully." Murphy says he\u2019s been a fan for a long time and thanks Cher for helping people in need during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

They talked about the KATE's live events and the camp for kids. <\/p>\n

Eileen Ivers talks about how Cher testifies in "Believe." She says "we are strong enough!" and then does a great "Believe" cover on the fiddle. Lucy Arnaz  congrats "my friend."<\/p>\n

\"Ed\"<\/a>Ed Asner says congratulations to Cher and calls her "the most lovely lady on creation. She certainly deserves it. She\u2019s a live one.\u201d I actually got emotional when Asner said "She\u2019s a Live One!!" His Emmy award is prominently displayed behind him. Donations jumped to 41K during his speech.<\/p>\n

\"Peter\"<\/a>Peter Asher talks about working with Cher while he produced some of her records. He said "I admire her enormously\u2026she\u2019s quite a remarkable woman, very versatile, hard working, determined, unreasonably talented, with a uniquely remarkable voice\u2026she can be scary from time to time\u201d (right?!) which he said could also be said about Katharine herself in the same way.<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy\"<\/a>Jimmy Webb calls Cher \u201cthe brightest, quickest thinker I have ever known and a Backgammon hustler par excellence\u2026most of all a talented and soulful vocalist\u201d (right!!??) and an unquenchable sense of humor.\u201d (I\u2019ve never thought of senses of humor being quenchable?) He says they were working together when Cher appeared on the cover of Time<\/em> Magazine. And \u201clong before feminism was a thing, I knew you as the formidable representative of women\u2019s rights.\u201d (Solid props there!) \u201cYou most certainly have the spirit of Katharine Hepburn. I loved you then and I love you now. I have always 'believed' in you. Call me.\u201d He actually said that. Call me. Incorporating believe is getting annoying but those are some accolades right there.<\/p>\n

Then they went through all the past winners giving their congrats to Cher.<\/p>\n

\"Dick\"<\/a>2014-Dick Cavett: "Oh am I happy to be here tonight\u201d for someone special whom he has always loved. (I love his enthusiasm.) And he says: \u201cNo one has ever said I met someone just like Katharine Hepburn and no one has ever said I met someone just like Cher. What a team.\u201d Perfect!<\/p>\n

\"Glen\"<\/a>2017-Glen Close: She says she\u2019s \u201ctotally, wonderfully thrilled for you Cher. How deserving you are to get this award because you are iconic yourself. In some ways I think you define the word iconic. You are part of our lives, part of our DNA. You are a fierce heart, a beautiful human being. You are an icon for women and I\u2019m sure men as well.\u201d She asked Cher to \u201cfeel loved and celebrated and deeply appreciated for who you have been and what you have done for your entire career. Bravo, bravo Cher\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Ann\"<\/a>2018-Ann Nyberg: she says Cher is alone in her class\u201d (so true) and talks about \u201cyour drive and your moxie would make Katharine Hepburn proud. She carried out her own path and so have you. Thank you for all you have given to the world of entertainment and for all the kindness you have shown to so many throughout your life who needed your help\u201d (me: including elephants!) \u201cKeep shining your light.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Christine\"<\/a>2019-Christine Baranski: she said, \u201cMs. Cher, darling, you embody the beauty, the talent, dare I say the balls, of the late Ms. Katharine Hepburn, except for one thing, you sing way better than she did. Congratulations Cher."<\/p>\n

We then met the artist who made the award and what photos she used and what the process was for creating the clay statue, making a mold, customizing the individual pieces, forging the statue and the pictures used to design the piec.<\/p>\n

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\"Stephanie\"<\/a>Stephanie J. Block then talked about how she portrayed (past tense??) Cher in The Cher Show and how in the Chicago run Cher asked that they retool "Believe" to sound different so that people could hear the lyrics. Block said they turned the song into a soulful ballad but keeping the \u201cintensity and fire\u201d of the original. Block indicated that when \u201cit\u2019s safe to perform again\u2026\u201d but then she didn\u2019t finish that thought. Urg! Block called Cher \u201cunexpected and totally impactful\u201d at \u201cmoving people\u201d and \u201ctouching people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Nile\"<\/a>Nile Rogers then talked about \u201cthe phenomenal, fantastic, fabulous Cher. [Katharine Hepburn]  is one of the coolest American icons and certainly Cher fits that description. Since I\u2019ve been working with her, I have to say she is probably the coolest boss I\u2019ve worked for. I also win a lot of money playing bingo. No one ever in my life played bingo with me and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever won before. Seriously, she\u2019s multi-talented. Her heart is as big as they come. The most altruistic, coolest, awesome woman and a wig truck that will put anybody to shame, maybe even Diana Ross. It\u2019s ridiculous. You totally deserve it. You are one of the coolest people I\u2019ve ever known.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a common theme of late: people describing Cher as THE coolest of the cool. And yet anthologies of cool don\u2019t include her at all? But I digress…<\/p>\n

\"Anderson\"<\/a>Anderson Cooper shows off his baby boy and tells Cher the award is \u201cso well deserved.\u201d He tells Cher he\u2019s playing her music to his son (and someday her movies).<\/p>\n

\"Andy\"<\/a>Andy Cohen then talks about Katharine Hepburn\u2019s fierce independence, strong personality and her paving the way for women. \u201cCher, you represent all the great qualities of Hepburn and more. Could Hepburn sing Believe? Survive Sonny? Wear Mackie Outfits\u201d That\u2019s unclear he says of the latest question. \u201cYou are my number one.\u201d The 'surviving Sonny' was a bit much considering Sonny is part and parcel of even later-day Cherness.<\/p>\n

\"Bob\"<\/a>Bob Mackie then talks about Cher as a \u201cgorgeous creature\u201d and \u201cwhat a perfect honor,\u201d how Cher is \u201clike Katharine Hepburn in so many ways and yet nothing like her.\u201d He says nobody can look like Cher; \u201cthey\u2019ve tried.\u201d He says she\u2019s a \u201cwarrior goddess\u201d Like Cher, Katharine Hepburn was always Katharine Hepburn, a perfect movie star. Mackie says he\u2019s \u201cthrilled to be here\u201d and calls Cher a \u201ctrue partner.\u201d He says \u201cWe were both children when we started. Still are in our brains.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before introducing Cher, the event announcer says Cher is an icon of her time like Hepburn was an icon of her own time. And that Cher challenged the rules and the norm just like Hepburn did and brought a one of a kind approach to her own talent. Katharine Hepburn bucked the trends and took control of her own career.\u201d They then played Cher\u2019s TMC tribute to Hepburn<\/a> with her story of meeting Hepburn and being light-headed, sweating and feeling like a complete idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Chaz\"<\/a>Chaz then talks about \u201cmy mom\u2019s career over a lifetime. It\u2019s pretty amazing.\u201d He talks about how he has connected as an actor to her struggles to be taken seriously as an actor. \u201cIt\u2019s my favorite thing that she does\u201d he says of her acting. He says as a parent she is amazing and that she\u2019s been there for him and \u201ccome to everything I\u2019ve done\u201d even to visiting him on sets. He calls her \u201can inspiration\u201d and that he\u2019s \u201cso proud of her and happy she\u2019s getting this honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last part is the interview with Cher. Ann Nyerg arrives at Cher\u2019s house in Malibu. They do an elbow wave.<\/p>\n

\"Cherdoor\"<\/a>Cher admires the pictures of Hepburn they\u2019ve put up in her house. They do a social distancing interview. Cher talks about watching Hepburn movies with her mom, along with Bette Davis, Ava Gardner\u2026women who were \u201cmagic onscreen\u201d and as actors who \u201ccarried you farther.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Cherward\"<\/a>Nyberg asks Cher about aspects of her career. Cher says films are harder but TV and the stage are \u201ca snap.\u201d I always said I\u2019d never make many movies.\u201d She said she loved Broadway because she didn\u2019t have to look at the audience. She always has to calibrate \u201chow am I doing\u201d in her concert shows. She talked about her favorite scenes: on the swing in Silkwood<\/em> when she stared crying and the late-night scene with Vincent Gardinia in Moonstruck<\/em>. She says her good scenes are \u201cfew and far between.\u201d She admits she doesn\u2019t give herself much slack. She talks about wining the Oscar and how good it feels to be a nominee of awards but then if you lose you\u2019re just a loser. She really thought Holly Hunter was going to win that year. She talked about saying \u201cshit\u201d on the way up to the podium to get her Oscar and how she forgot to thank the director.<\/p>\n

Cher said TV liberated her. It\u2019s where she figured out \u201cthis is who I am\u201d and that \u201cI was really funny.\u201d She said she took to it more than Sonny did. They talked about her dancing with The Jacksons on the Cher show. \u201cI wasn\u2019t a dancer" she said and wondered, "Where am I gonna find them in me?\u201d She talks with pride about her West Side Story<\/em> skit from her TV special in 1978.<\/p>\n

When asked about any advise for her 25-year old self and she said it was the same as her advise for her 74-year old self: don\u2019t sweat the small stuff.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re up to 79k in donations now.<\/p>\n

When asked about any famous BFFs, she asks her assistant Jen who suggests Meryl. Cher then tells the story about stopping an assault\/burglary in Manhattan with Meryl and about Meryl doing her own ironing to stay grounded and how they\u2019re not alike in any way.<\/p>\n

Cher talks about being introverted and shy as a person. But how she got used to performing, saying "there\u2019s nobody my age on staging singing\u2026at least wearing no clothes."<\/p>\n

She talks about two great movie scripts that Covid curtailed, one to perform in and one to direct. Grrr.<\/p>\n

Does she feel a kindred spirit to Katharine Hepburn? She feels women in those days had it harder with the studio system. \u201cI didn\u2019t fight at first. I learned how to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

She talks about her favorite movies of Hepburn: The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen<\/em> and putting her makeup on before concert performances to Desk Set<\/em> and Pat and Mike<\/em>. (I love Desk Set<\/em>\u2026it\u2019s nerdy). Cher says there is something different about Hepburn that resonated with her. She could be sad or hysterically funny. She then talked about meeting Hepburn twice, once at the 1974 Oscar tribute to Spencer Tracy. Cher sat in a group of famous people and Hepburn passed them on the way to the stage and to Cher said \u201cHey kid.\u201d And then Hepburn at one time wanted Cher to buy her house but Cher couldn\u2019t afford it. And she once had a conversation with Hepburn in the office of a throat doctor they had in common. Her doctor set Cher up to meet Hepburn as a surprise. Cher was tongue tied.<\/p>\n

They talked about Tweets and Cher defended her use of all caps and emojis. She talks about dyslexia and spelling and her good memory. <\/p>\n

Her one word for Kate was two: my hero.<\/p>\n

The ended on a pan of Cher\u2019s award shelf! Grammys, Golden Globes, Emmys, Oscasrs.  By this time the fundraiser has gone up to 103k.<\/p>\n

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