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...life composed of second acts bring off a grand finale? Sonny Bono did just that. His opera buffa culminated in a Palm Springs, Calif., funeral in a Roman Catholic church, attended by three wives, his gay-activist daughter, conservative G.O.P. hierarchs from Washington and stand-up eulogists getting laughs from leather-clad bikers listening in from the streets and a worldwide audience watching live on cable TV. Even when his life finally got suddenly and fatally out of control, his timing was impeccable. He died like a Kennedy, on skis, against a tree. And if that's funny...
Sonny: The Musical PEOPLE Daily reports that at the time of his death, Congressman Sonny Bono had been working on a ?Sonny and Cher? musical about the Vietnam...
...Sonny Bono was consulting on a "Sonny and Cher" stage musical at the time of his death. Variety reports the California congressman had flown to Los Angeles three weeks ago for a read-through of the musical, which was written by his longtime friends and TV producers Chris Bearde and Allan Blye and musical director Earl Brown. The writers said the show (which juxtaposes the gravity of the Vietnam era with Sonny and Cher's on-stage hi-jinx) was Bono's idea and that they were going to run it past Cher next. Bono had planned to confer with...
Tuesday morning, fellow House members spoke with smiles of Bono, whom they described as a charismatic figure with great timing. And they spoke of a serious legislator, a student of politics for whom Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted advancement, at least within the House ranks. The liberals of the '80s, always suspicious of Reagan, found Bono's election an easy joke. He was a celebrity Congressman, popular with fellow members as well as with autograph-seekers, the second-most requested draw at members' events behind Gingrich. "The last thing in the world I thought I would be is a U.S. congressman...
...Bono was the straight man on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" in the early '70s, hangdog with his droopy mustache and bell-bottoms, dwarfed by his barb-tongued wife. As a songwriter, he wrote "Needles and Pins," "The Beat Goes On" and "I Got You, Babe." He was elected mayor of Palm Springs six years after his show went off the year. And six years after that he was elected congressman, swept into office by the Republican revolution, by a decent record as mayor and probably by a good dose of nostalgia for those innocent days before disco...