Word: cher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of schlock-rock life led by Elton John, 27, was bound to age him fast. Still, his fans may be startled to see him looking like a grizzled ancient in his forthcoming appearance on the Cher TV special. Wearing a satin-lapelled dressing gown and high-heeled clunkers, John plays a senile rock-'n'-roller incarcerated in a rest home along with an equally decayed Bette Midler and Flip Wilson. John's eyeglasses, a particular fetish, are surprisingly modest. Of his 100 pairs, he has chosen tinted aviators, rather than the giant shades even larger than...
...there no statesmen of stature in Europe today? "Cher monsieur," he answered with a rare grin, "the novel is in bad shape today, and so is Europe. We are not finishing our novels, and God is not putting the finishing touches on great men. The last of the great men of our day is Mao, and he is not in Europe...
...First, Cher kept putting down Sonny on their TV show. Then Sonny sued for a legal separation. Cher countersued, claiming she was sold into "involuntary servitude" to Sonny by a craftily written contract. Now Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour producers are having their downer. The show's rationale, the joys of marital strife, has vanished. But impervious to the show's doom and the feelings of their fans, Sonny and Cher seem content to rest on their considerable commercial success. That is to say, Sonny is. Cher's ambitions are already focused elsewhere. At the Grammy Awards...
...Hebrew prayers, for example, have been augmented with passages of poetry from W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings and others. Israeli Folk Singer Michael Burstein often opens Friday evening worship with Sabbath songs-"audience warm-up before air time," as one member puts it. TV Producer Allan Blye (The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour) serves as cantor, a role he used to perform professionally in Toronto. The synagogue "staff'-including Rabbi Cutler-are all unpaid volunteers...
...aides, who he said were following a familiar White House pattern in trying to undermine the Vice President as Nixon's most likely successor in 1976. Said Gold: "First we had Haldeman and Ehrlichman; now we have Haig and Laird; next we'll have Sonny and Cher...