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There were plenty of those. Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, was a show-business small-timer in Los Angeles, a sometime model and actress in commercials. Her biggest chance was being cast for a part in The Asphalt Jungle for a couple of weeks before another fringe performer named Marilyn Monroe took it away from her. Three times Holt married and divorced John Sarkesian, Cher's father, a compulsive gambler and later a heroin addict, although Cher did not meet him until she was eleven ("I hated him"). Between and after these marriages there were five others. Poverty...
...liberation from Sonny is a personal triumph, but it carries no ideological example for the rest of womankind, so far as Cher can see. As for being a sex symbol for males, that too is mostly in the eye of the beholder. It is true that after leaving Sonny she involved herself for more than 15 months in a much-publicized romance with David Geffen, 31, innovative president of Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records. "Look, I've traded one short, ugly man for another," she zinged-typically -when she and Geffen ran into Singer-Songwriter Paul Simon. Then, a few months...
Nearly everyone who has been part of her life agrees with that self-assessment. "Conservative, even prudish," is her mother's phrase for her. An uncle has another explanation for her fastidiousness: "Cher had seen it all and done it all by the time she was 15." But they both add that the quality of her career is far more important to her than the quality of any human tie. Says Geffen: "I have to have a private life, but I don't think Cher understands the concept of private life. Cher enjoys the hoopla." Says Sonny Bono...
...might have added, the childhood as well. "I was a shy, ugly kid who led a big fantasy life," Cher, who was christened Cherlin, recalls. "I thought I was an angel from heaven sent to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did it, I was really pissed off." Even before that she was trying to woo the world through performance. "From the time I could talk, I began to sing. Singing just came from the inside-something I'd do without thinking whenever I felt good or was really blue. Dancing? Well, it released my tensions...
...adolescence, Cher had started perfecting a signature she regarded as suitable for a star to sign in autograph books, and after the tenth grade she quit school forever. Around this time she had a first-and last-experience with a drug, Benzedrine. It left her "deadly opposed to drugs in every form, in every way." At 16 she left home rather than go on quarreling with her mother about "life-styles...