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...film directors written, produced and directed for public television. LIFE'S movie critic from 1965 to 1972, Schickel has reviewed both movies and television for TIME since then. This week he draws on his wide experience in adding his first TIME cover story to his list of credits. "Cher," he says, "is a TV creature. Such stars are whatever you think they are. It's especially interesting to figure out what they mean inside your own head...
Catching the TV creature off-camera was no easy task. In Los Angeles, Correspondent Leo Janos got hold of Cher on a rare day off and spent 10½ hours with the slinky singer at her Holmby Hills mansion. Jess Cook drew some candid comments from Sonny Bono while David DeVoss interviewed Bono's successors, David Geffen and Current Beau Greg Allman. Patricia Delaney filled out Cher's life story by speaking with her mother, Georgia Holt...
...usual kind of rockers' bash. On Sept. 23, 1974, after the Scottish group Average White Band's show at the Troubadour, Entrepreneur Ken Moss, 31, asked the lads back to his Hollywood Hills pad. Camp followers included Cher Bono. "We all sat around the coffee table and somebody started passing this vial of white powder," one guest told Rolling Stone later. "Everyone assumed it was coke." In fact, it was "China White" heroin...
Those who sniffed became ill, and nine hours later the band's drummer, Robbie Mclntosh, 24, was dead of a heroin overdose. Cher, who didn't take a snort, is credited with saving Bassist Alan Gorrie's life by walking him around all night, preventing him from lapsing into a coma. Last week it was revealed that a Los Angeles County grand jury had charged Moss, whose last address was British Honduras, with murder. Ironically, Robbie's last single with the band, Pick Up the Pieces, is currently heading for the top of the charts...
...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...