Cher

By Cher Scholar 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! Ick. And Cher At Home...Cher, like the rest of us, has body issues.

By Cher Scholar …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.

By Cher Scholar 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 la...

By Cher Scholar So between the actual happy moments of the past few weeks and the head-shaking f*#k-ed up moments, this is the reason I have fallen off monitoring Cherabouts. I have no idea what’s going on in Cherdom but I have plugged in The Best of Cher into my CD player a time or two just as a coping mechanism.

By Cher Scholar Cher was spotted at the Malibu fair a few weeks ago! Cher was spotted at the Malibu fair a few weeks ago! It's sweet to see Cher out having fun -- especially with her bf! …or at least one would assume fun is being had. I mean who doesn’t have fun...

By Cher Scholar 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...

By Cher Scholar Two pieces of pop culture have come to my attention this week dealing with the topic on fandom gone bad. First I plan to see the new movie Big Fan this weekend starring Patton Oswalt and written and directed by Robert D. Siegel (of The Wrestler). The Rolling Stone review:

By Cher Scholar I received two missives this week from our friends over at the Children’s Craniofacial Association or www.ccakids.org announcing September as Craniofacial Acceptance Month. The first email was from Executive Director Charlene Smith. As you recall Cher spent many years as spokeswoman...

By Cher Scholar For Christmases and birthdays during the brief era of 1977 to 1979, my parents purchased Sonny & Cher albums as gifts for me. And when I was sick with the stomach flu in 1979, my mom bought me the famous Cher People magazine cover issue with the hole-fit and the pink boa.

By Cher Scholar PETA Asks Stars Of “The Zookeeper” To Just Say No To Live Animals by Michael Parrish DuDell PETA Asks Stars Of “The Zookeeper” To Just Say No To Live Animals by Michael Parrish DuDell With a name like The Zookeeper you know there’s bound to be trouble! Yes, especially since Cher just attend...

By Cher Scholar So in light of this, it was nice to get a field report from Coolia on an episode last week of Howard Stern: Was there a Joan Rivers Cher feud going on over the last 10 or so years? Who knows in the shadow of the more well-known Cher v. Bette, Cher v. Howard Stern feuds. (Is that last one even a feud?...

By Cher Scholar Besides "Walking in Memphis" mashups, here’s something else I love to death, Sonny & Cher singing "Stagger Lee" on The S&C Comedy Hour. I used to play this song over and over on my cassette player  (as recently as 2002 when I was still walking around Marina del Rey with my walkman an...

By Cher Scholar That and it would be nice to save a few trees and a barrel of oil. Frankly, the last thing this troubled world needs is another bad Cher compilation. And a good Cher compilation is as rare as a Vancouver Island Marmot. Download 02_Somebody_(with_wailers)

By Cher Scholar Notes are lily, peony, dried fruits, ylang, orris, magnolia, vanilla, heliotrope, musk. I’m finding that list a little suspect, only because Uninhibited doesn’t smell as sweet as that list would suggest.  In fact, the opening smells like aldehydes to me; for the first few seconds you cou...

By Cher Scholar There’s a new Cher mashup. Sweet! There’s a new Cher mashup. Sweet! “Believe” layered with Deadmau5’s similarly electrified track “Moar Ghosts N Whatever.” The result: “Believe In Ghosts.” http://djzax.com/2009/08/11/cher-vs-deadmau5-believe-in-ghosts-dj-zax-2009-club-mix/

By Cher Scholar Oh...we also visited Amoeba Records in Hollywood on my birthday which was a rare treat. I scanned the bins for Cher records and CDs. Found a copy of All I Ever Need is You (KS 3660) on the pink and orange Kapp label (as apposed to the black label) which I’m going to play to see if the song “Somebody” has...

By Cher Scholar I was born on this day at 7ish in the evening all those 40 years ago. My mother said I made her feel swell up that summer and so she couldn't wear shoes. She also said I cried all night right after I was born. During a recent interview with Tina Turner on Oprah, Cher said she hated growing old. "What...

By Cher Scholar Someone on the Cher list quipped, “change the set list please.” back from feelin ill and back from my bachelorette party in La Lovely Las Vegas. It’s true...it is a bit early for my bachelorette party but my MOH is a busy party planner for a major Internet company and our...

By Cher Scholar A post called "Layoffs at Caesar" was submitted recently on the Cher list by Travis Wisdom. He interviewed some people in the Cher Store recently and had this to report : In honor of Cher's working class empathy: here are some pics of Cher playing the part in Silkwood.

By Cher Scholar Other positive things to focus on: I've finished a few new poems (one inspired by my new discovery of Walt Whitman) and I did get a chance to read the latest Rolling Stone article on Gregg Allman, which was minorly interesting and didn't mention Elijah (who just had a birthday) but did talk...

By Cher Scholar During my convalescence, it cheers me to know someone somewhere is eating a cupcake inspired by Cher. My friend Coolia took this iPhone picture of The Cher Cupcake and emailed it to me. What makes the Cher cupcake Cherlike, you ask? It has pop rocks in the frosting! Coolia says it is yummy.

By Cher Scholar Cher fans will remember Lenny credited on just about every Cher Kapp/MCA project of the early to mid 70s. Lenny didn't seem to remember being involved in the Snuff Garrett-produced Warner Bros album Cherished, but he is listed on the back album cover credits.

By Cher Scholar A poet named Aaron Smith did the Cher essay in the book My Diva, a book of gay male writers making tributes to their females muses. I wondered if Smith might also have a Cher poem. He did!  Cher Uncensored I was also inspired by the Cher poem to do a quick Internet scan on visual Cher art.

By Cher Scholar Wavin' Flag - K'naan I Will Survive - Cake We Both Go Down Together - The Decemberists Fight Test - Flaming Lips Laughing With (God) - Regina Spektor Tell Me It's Not Over - Starsailor St. Kitt's Woman - Tower of Power Fighting My Way Back - Thin Lizzy Chastity Sun - Cher

By Cher Scholar Overview: A Chaz Bio Review That Hate-Take I kid you not.  My final whine Can we get back to talking about me again soon? Because before this news came out I also wanted to gleefully brag about how often Cher Scholar is quoted in Wikipedia. :-)

By Cher Scholar When Cher and Bono divorced in 1977, they agreed to split revenue from the songs recorded together. When Bono died in a ski accident in 1998, one-third of his interest passed to wife Mary Bono-Mack, and one-sixth interests were split amongst his kids. Bono-Mack, as well as Cher's daughter w...

By Cher Scholar the film will tell the story of a small-town girl (Aguilera) who gets in touch with her inner hussy with the help of the owner of a strip -- ahem, burlesque -- club, played by Cher. My only problem with this casting is that they didn't just dump Aguilera and have Cher play all the parts (somethin...

By Cher Scholar 9) "Believe", the Grammy Award-winning title track from her 1998 album, made Cher the oldest woman (at age 52)to have a number one hit in the Hot 100 rock era. It also gave her the distinction of having the longest span of #1 hits (more than 33 years). She is also the only female artist to have sol...

By Cher Scholar But I think in some sense he was my fantasy of what fully-fulfilled Cher singer could be – had she embraced a 100% torch theatricality that the splendid Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour solos only hinted at. This articleby Mary Zeiher catalogs his key performances on the show (including a slam...

By Cher Scholar There are rumors this week that Cher may star in a new movie called Burlesque with pop star Cristina Aguilera. (This reminds me strangely of that rumor of the early part of this decade about Cher in a movie with Britney Spears). But anyway, this one is about "a singer from the boonies who comes t...

By Cher Scholar Poet Aaron Smith (who wrote "Blue on Blue Ground") wrote the essay on Cher. I wonder if he has any Cher poems. I’ll try to find out. Anyway, his essay was more of a brief personal diary of his most memorable Cher moments. It didn’t delve into characteristics of Cher specifically.

By Cher Scholar At a David Foster and Friends concert Saturday in Las Vegas, the singer, 62, wore a sheer black bodysuit, similar to the one she wore 20 years ago in her "Turn Back Time" video. 2) Which leotard lady wears it best? Cher 70% Lady GaGa 15% Madonna 15% Total Votes: 17,166

By Cher Scholar Cher Hearts Firemen! Cher Hearts Firemen! I love this story...I love everything about it: Paramedics rushing to save a National Treasure, the National Treasure going all lusty on 'em. It's nice. Apparently, emergency services were called to Cher's home in Malibu when someone...

By Cher Scholar Recently I’ve added a new section to CherScholar.com called Expert Cornerand it’s a place where other profound Cher thinkers can ponder the deep questions of the Cher. It's been my pleasure to post a standard Q&A on Cherness and also the first in (hopefully) a series of timeline...

By Cher Scholar Why do I scan the Internet...err...rather read my daily Cher RSS Yahoo feed and leach off the Cher research of CherGroups posters  :-) ...for news of Cher every week? For blogs like this one, that's why. I feel like Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck right now: “That’s it!...No, that’s it!”

By Cher Scholar Among Vegas’ woes: Danny Gans died unexpectedly at 52 last week, stories have been simmering that Bette Midler sales are down, Elton John just left town, and the fact that Vegas is reportedly the most hard hit US city in the current recession. The Rumor: Cher to end her Vegas run early

By Cher Scholar I need to rephrase that: this is the boring story that would not die. Cher swore on TV. First it wasn’t okay; then it was okay; now it’s not okay again. I’ve culled the pertinent details (in my estimation anyway) from the USA Today story by Joan Biskupic:

By Cher Scholar Cher videos Muhammad Ali scene from The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-iWHkkwyOE Watch Cher winGolden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for Silkwood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tl1koqazkk&feature=related

By Cher Scholar This week this note about a Cher interview on Armenian Dish Network TV appeared on the Cher news RSS feeds: But I did enjoy hearing veteran reporters describe Cher with affable and adoring accolades. For instance, Michelle Emard said “in every conceivable way, Cher is imitable.”

By Cher Scholar Sad Cher-related story as Phil Spector loomed so large in early S&C history and Cher's first recordings as a backup singer and emerging solo artist in the early to mid-60s. http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090414/en_music_eo/118428

By Cher Scholar It went virtually un-remarked on but Chastity celebrated her 40th birthday this past March 4. (I had to look that date up – for some reason I thought she was a April baby.) Like me, Chastity was born in 1969. I still recall how put-out I was the she was, in fact, older than me. I have no idea why tha...

By Cher Scholar I'm not a 100% expert on Cher wigs but I can muddle through some of the mysteries. Also you can see her new hairdo on the Michael Douglas Show of 1979. But on TV, out on the town with Gene Simmons, and on stage, she wore wigs - I don't think she liked her short hair much.

By Cher Scholar The 45 download of Sonny & Cher's "Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer" http://brackattack75.blogspot.com/2009/04/sonny-and-cher-mama-was-rock-and-roll.html What Cher was thinking when she recorded this rock opera is one of the Cher scholar mysteries of all times.

By Cher Scholar Like in the 60s and 70s, Cher has been spotted dancing. Seen out dancing Like in the 60s and 70s, Cher has been spotted dancing. From Access Hollywood: "Cher Still Making ‘Em Weep!: And in real royalty news, pop queen Cher caused quite a stir Saturday night at the LIV nightclub...

By Cher Scholar So about the Cher reference...Harjo describes an episode during her young adulthood, partying sometime during the 1970s outside with some cross-dressing Native Americans, which is an amazing image in itself. One dude is spangled out in a flamboyant dress and is drunkenly trying to celebr...

By Cher Scholar Cher scholar Tyler found this remake of Cher's hit "We All Sleep Alone"  The fellow really enunciates every single syllable. I'm getting a contempo Christian vibe from him, although he calls himself a folk-pop crooner. It's pleasant enough with the teeth of the song as I'm used to it seem to...

By Cher Scholar Follow the link below for a short video of Cher dancing with the Jackson 5 on The Cher Show; and below that is audio of Cher talking about the experience. Follow the link below for a short video of Cher dancing with the Jackson 5 on The Cher Show; and below that is audio of Cher talking about the e...

By Cher Scholar Christopher suggests that if this feat is not accomplished by a full-fledged record release producing a hit, then maybe some catchy track could be placed on a movie soundtrack post haste. Babs [Barbra Streisand] scored Top Ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

By Cher Scholar Again, I had a good deal of fun seeing Cher live in Las Vegas a few Saturday’s ago. Her energy level seemed high and I felt and the crowd was very engaged. Again, I had a good deal of fun seeing Cher live in Las Vegas a few Saturday’s ago. Her energy level seemed high and I felt and the crowd was very en...

By Cher Scholar Nicolas Cage says that he is indebted to Cher for helping him become a Hollywood star. The ‘City Of Angels’ star has said that he is thankful to the singer-cum-actress because she fought to land him a role alongside her in the Oscar-winning movie ‘Moonstruck’. Celine Dion visits Cher

By Cher Scholar Believe – of these six remixes, the one I am partial to is the Almighty Definitive Mix. Truthfully, I was one of the rare people on the planet who didn’t love this song. And only played the ADM mix daily during that four weeks of #1 chart-toping that occurred in early 1999 when I was psychicall...

By Cher Scholar In the DVD's Cher interview, Rona says she's known Cher since Cher was a "street kid" in the 60s and that she admired Cher because she "had guts" and was honest. The interview takes place after Cher's breakup with Sonny and David Geffen, right as she was falling in love with Gregg Allman. She sq...

By Cher Scholar Bloggers think Cher should go on Dancing with the Stars Dave Barry blogs briefly on Cher WHY WE NEED STRICTER GOVERNMENT CONTROLS ON CHER: Man Distracted by Cher Shoots Wife Certainly it couldn’t have been last week's Entertainment Tonight segment.

By Cher Scholar Well, this site claims (and for decades the story goes) that Cher is 5 foot 6 inches. But I ask you, all you fans who have met or seen Cher in person, do you believe it? It’s a good project to notice how tall Sonny and Cher are (or are not) compared to other people – both on the TV show and in the movie G...

By Cher Scholar Nod to the historic beginnings of Sonny & Cher there, Miss Thang. Astute Cher Scholar Robrt Pela brought to my attention the fact that Cher doing “Let the Good Times Roll” in concert is in fact much larger news than I had indicated last week as this is in fact an old...

By Cher Scholar SONNY Bono, former husband and singing partner of superstar Cher, was clubbed to death by hit men on the orders of drug and weapons dealers who feared he was going to expose them, a former FBI agent claims. What’s true and what’s not? I’m not a criminologist. I’m not even a Sonny scholar. More ju...

By Cher Scholar Cher was also on Entertainment Tonight talking about the show (pic above). Here is a compilation of reviews of Cher's Vegas shows year one: http://govegas.about.com/od/cher/Cher_Cher_at_Caesars_Palace_Las_Vegas_Show_Review.htm

By Cher Scholar “I mean does anyone under 30 even know who Cher is?” “Don’t remember who Cher is...?” “Let’s take Cher, the singer who can’t honor her promises to retire...” Here are some bloggers who supported Cher’s comments: Cher slams them. They slam Cher. Toys are thrown across the sandbox. Madness.