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THERE'S MORE CHER THERE...
...CHER is proof that nothing in American culture ages as well as icons and punch lines. Currently her single Believe is No. 2 on the Billboard charts and "Cher hair"--ironed flat, middle parted--crowns trendsetters everywhere. Even contemporary designer Tom Ford of Gucci, Cher reports, told her she inspired his latest '60s-inflected collection. The multimedia onslaught will continue when her film, Tea with Mussolini, starring Dames Judi Dench and Joan Plowright, opens in the spring. Cher admits to being awestruck by the titled ensemble. "When you get around them, you don't care...
...very hard to ignore: Alicia Silverstone. No, guys, I'm not talking about her looks. I'm talking about her acting. As Adam's love interest, Eve is supposed to be a cynical woman disillusioned by love. Unfortunately, the only technique Silverstone has mastered is the "whine" of her Cher days. Whether she's sad, mad or emotionless, she whines (or looks like she wants to whine). In trying to appear cynical, Silverstone has refrained from acting. Her hair, done in child-like ringlets, is out of place for her world-weary character...
...problem with this empathetic if unimaginative movie, based on Sonny Bono's memoir, is that it refuses to be awful--viewers expecting camp will do better trolling VH1 for Cher videos. The story of Sonny and Cher's rise and fall, comeback and dissolution is standard-issue backstage drama, albeit one with more bobcat vests than usual. Renee Faia does a spot-on Cher, suggesting humanity beneath the tics. Jay Underwood gets Sonny's doofiness but not, one realizes in its absence, the wimpy vulnerability that made him tolerable. The revelations, then, are that Sonny's stage persona...
...after sporting short, wavy hair at a London premiere--was the talk of the Golden Globes with straight tresses that flowed down her back. The look has been exploding in fashionable circles since last fall, when labels like Gucci and Marc Jacobs showed their spring/summer collections with straight, flat "Cher hair," and celebrities like Madonna and Fergie took up the style. Extensions were the hit of last week's Victoria's Secret show in New York City, and are expected to be prominent again at next week's fall collections...