CHER in VEGAS

[lofter1]

Cher Agrees to 3-Year Deal in Vegas

NY TIMES (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-People-Cher-Vegas.html)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 8, 2008
Filed at 12:02 a.m. ET

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- She has released 25 albums that have sold more than 100 million copies and has enjoyed a career that has included concerts, recordings, Broadway, TV, film acting and directing, and books. Now she's taking her show to Vegas.

Cher announced Thursday she'll be one of the headline acts at Caesars Palace.

''I started in Vegas at Caesars, so I've come full circle,'' she said. ''I'm back, and I plan to give my fans the best experience yet. I think everybody knows I only do things in a big way.''

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The Oscar, Emmy and Grammy award winner said in a statement that she will begin a three-year, 200-show engagement May 6.

''Cher's name in one word encapsulates icon, award-winning legend, and captivating performer,'' said Caesars Palace President Gary Selesner. ''Caesars is pleased to welcome Cher back.''

''Cher at The Colosseum'' is scheduled to include hit songs from her career of more than 40 years, with choreography, costumes and special effects. It is a partnership with AEG Live.

Cher will alternate performances at the 4,300-seat Colosseum with other headline acts Elton John and Bette Midler.

In December, Celine Dion ended a five-year run at the theater, which opened in 2002 as home of her show, ''A New Day ...''.

John, who began playing at the Colosseum in 2004 when Dion's show was dark, is now booked to play his show, ''The Red Piano,'' through 2008. Midler's ''The Showgirl Must Go On'' is set to open Feb. 20 for a two-year run of 100 shows per year.

Cher's 90-minute show will feature choreography from Doriana Sanchez and lighting, special effects and costumes by Bob Mackie. Engagements will run four nights a week on Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Ticket prices are from $95 to $250.



Copyright 2008 The Associated Press


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[BrooklynRider]

If she gets any more botox, her head is going to split open like a hotdog on a grill.

[voodoochild]

If she gets any more botox, her head is going to split open like a hotdog on a grill.
LMAO ^

I liked Cher in the movie Mask and that's as far as my liking for her goes.:o

[stache]

May I nominate this thread as 'gayest of 2008'? 10 more months to go! :D

[Fabrizio]

(Warning: this thread is about to get gayer. Proceed at your own risk)

The kiddies today do not understand that Cher was the first... the VERY first Amercan performer to show up on TV in full hippie drag. She was a couple of years ahead of everybody.

In 1965 it was mod or beatnicky or collegiate or teased hair glam... no one in the US looked like her. Compare her dress (and attitude) to the other gals in the clip (bell bottoms had never been seen before). They were like visitors from another planet :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hg0Hf5YUvpE

[stache]

Interesting, it looks like she had a little muffin top going on - :eek:

[lofter1]

Sonny was always the biggest dork in town.

[BrooklynRider]

This is the face Cher got rid in favor of the new plastic one. I liked the big nose and crooked teeth better.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eWeezUxIzaE

Three months later she's a gal in trouble...

[stache]

Warning: Very bad joke...

Q. What did the tree say to Sonny?

A. "I've got you babe"...

[stache]

My favorite Cher cover - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTjR9UXGskc
I thought this woman would become a major star but I think she decided to have kids instead.

[Fabrizio]

OMG... the lighting designer in BrooklynRider's video hould have been shot on sight. Fab gown and head gear, but no one will look good lit like that.

Here's the same song with a flatter, softer lighting so you can see how beatiful she really was. Watch how she gets every move, every expression right. This is a genuine heavy-duty diva. Remember this was a low-tech era... simple camera work, no special effects:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q

Compare her performance to the Sophie Ellis-Bextor video posted above... that girl doesn't know what she's doing.

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I saw Cher perform about a million years ago with a group no one remembers called Seals and Crofts. Apparently she was a friend of theirs and was passing through town and so she came on and sang with them and fooled around. It was quite a surprise and didn't quite compute. I remember mostly her being very tanned and thin.

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[voodoochild]

This is very funny. Love It!!!!!!:p

Just wondering, how come gay men love Cher anyway???????? What is so great about her? Just curious.

[stache]

voodoo. I think a lot of it has to do with how much time she invests in her appearance. Plus she's a real survivor, and a larger than life type. It's easy for drags to copy her.

[voodoochild]

Now this is one of the best Cher appearances on a show EVER!!!
Will and Grace.:p

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uoLa1q6Mc5M

[voodoochild]

voodoo. I think a lot of it has to do with how much time she invests in her appearance. Plus she's a real survivor, and a larger than life type. It's easy for drags to copy her.
Yeah I guess that's true. Never thought of that.

[Fabrizio]

Same era: but she was nothing compared to this (this is the stratosphere):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=p6C4xn_5YGQ

(live performance BTW. Note pitch, placement and breath control. No one can do this today. No one. Watch the series of hand movements when the video hits 1:25 to 1:45)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki

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[stache]

...and raise you - http://youtube.com/watch?v=VBx77zUjOqM ;)

[Fabrizio]

Ha! I'm holding a Vikki Carr.

This is a MUST see... it is required.

(I enjoy singing this while I'm peeling onions.... or falling down drunk)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9UWknEgKQ_4

[voodoochild]

I'm going all in with this one......
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2BSBe42Fb48

[stache]

Lessons from the master!!!

[voodoochild]

Thanks you.
*taking my bow*

[BrooklynRider]

Another gay icon...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CX-24Zm0bjk&feature=user

[Radiohead]

What are you looking at Dave:)

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[mariab]

Wonder when she'll stop wearing those outfits^. Still has a great voice, even without autotunes.




By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 5/20/2011
Actress, music icon Cher turns 65

Music icon Cher, the rare celebrity to have earned both Oscar and Grammy glory, turns 65 this week with undiminished adoration from millions of fans around the world.

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Actress, music icon Cher turns 65



Before Madonna or Lady Gaga, there was Cher, a forerunner of the current crop of musical divas, with her fondness for head dresses, sequined gowns and a fearlessness of harnessing her sexuality as part of her carefully crafted public persona.
Throughout her career, Cher has sold more than 100 million records, but she said in a recent interview that her most recent hit -- last year's "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" -- has particular poignancy at this moment in her career.
"That song, for me, had a lot of meaning," she told a California newspaper last year, saying that it reminded her that "I have to kind of move over."
"Not that I'm doing it gracefully, because you'd have to pull me over kicking and screaming," she said in her interview with the Fresno Bee.
Cher is a singular character on the American cultural landscape for her longevity and her ability to reinvent her career over a career spanning six decades.
Even the pop stars of the moment, not known generally to show deference to their musical elders, pay homage to Cher.
"How could you not learn from Cher with her work ethic and the way she commands attention when she walks into a room, but exudes such peaceful tranquility and love for everyone?" said singer Christina Aguilera.
Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946 to an Armenian truck driver who abandoned the family when she was just two-years-old, and a mother who cobbled together a living as a sometime actress model.
A 16-year-old high school dropout with hip-length raven hair and striking but atypical good looks, Cher met husband-to-be musician Sonny Bono at a Sunset Boulevard coffee shop.
At barely 18, she teamed up with him to record "I Got You, Babe," the first of many massive hits.
The chart-topping 1965 tune became the duo's biggest single and their signature song, and was on Rolling Stone's magazine list of the 500 Greatest Songs of all time.
The couple married in 1969. Then came a daughter, Chastity, and their groundbreaking television variety act, "The Sonny and Cher Show," one of the most popular programs of the early 1970s.
Throughout early stardom, Cher was a style icon, equally as comfortable in bell bottom jeans and navel-baring cropped tops, she was in the floor-length form-fitting gowns that were staple attire on her show.
Her marriage to Sonny ended in 1974. A second marriage, to musician Greg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band, produced one son, Elijah Blue Allman. That union fell apart after barely two years.
But, the queen of reinvention, Cher launched her acting career around that time, earning lead role honors opposite Meryl Streep when they made "Silkwood" in 1983.
A few years later, she was awarded an Oscar for her starring role in the hit 1987 romantic comedy "Moonstruck" opposite Nicolas Cage.
Her on-again, off-again music career took off again at the end of the 1980s, when she had one of her biggest solo hits, "If I could Turn Back Time."
The tune might also have been describing her physical appearance, given her acknowledged penchant for plastic surgery, or her numerous farewell tours and comeback concerts.
Recently Cher has been in the news because of Chastity -- now known as Chaz -- who is now living as a transgendered man.
A new film, "Becoming Chaz" which debuted this year at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the medical and social transition of Chaz from female to male.
Over the years, in addition to her music and screen career, Cher has starred in a Las Vegas live show, with nearly 200 appearances.
Her latest musical hit was last year's "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me," heard in the film "Burlesque," which also marked her first big screen appearance in more than a decade -- the latest being the 1999 film "Tea with Mussolini".
In "Burlesque," she plays as a down-on-her-luck nightclub owner, opposite Aguilera, who waxed rhapsodic about her co-star.
"She's been there and done everything, before any of us," the singer said.

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