Word: chers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, several of TIME's 1975 covers have already been honored. Art Directions magazine singled out Jim Sharpe's painting of Chou En-lai (Feb. 3) and Richard Avedon's photograph of Cher (March 17). It also cited the editorial design of TIME's special 1776 issue. Art Director David Merrill was honored by The One Show, published by the Art Directors Club, for his design of a 1974 cover on Middle East massacres...
...stance is early Abner Doubleday; the batsman is Captain Fantastic himself, Rock Star Elton John. All dandied up in a sequined white Dodger uniform (designed by Cher's own dressmaker, Bob Mackie), Elton had come to play a pair of concerts at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. In real life, of course, Elton has never swung a baseball bat in anger. "What I have played is a game called rounders," said the bespectacled singer. "It's the English equivalent of baseball and not nearly as violent. None of that sliding into bases and trying...
...variety series. "We hope to attract guests who are not normally seen on television," explains Arledge. Adds Cosell: "Are you happy with the pretaped Hollywood shows which have a floating crap game of guests with McLean Stevenson this week, Tim Conway the next week, moving between Carol Burnett and Cher?" Instead Arledge and Cosell scheduled "acts"-performers doing a full turn. ABC has money to book the best: each show is budgeted at around $250,000 and, as Howard says, "I got a lot of due bills out to people...
What's this? Sultry Cher, with smoking eyebrows, dressed in chrome jeans? With green hair, holding a mercury ball? Indeed. To liven up the opening sequence of Cher's TV show this season, the producers hired Rollin Binzer, Jim Benedict and Leslie Brooks, three film makers who call themselves Kid Millions. Using photographs of their subject, the three painted on Daliesque wardrobes, added laser lights to create an eerie effect, and built a 58-second animated lead-in to the program. "I love it," announced the star after watching the first screening. "The only trouble is, it will...
...reruns-here and in 101 foreign countries. Ninety-five percent of the U.S. stations planning to air Space are affiliates of the networks. Most of them are scheduling it in prime time, pre-empting such new shows as The Invisible Man, Fay and Phyllis and established hits like Rhoda, Cher and Sanford and Son. Space's success could not only bite deeply into the audience ratings for network shows, but perhaps even sink a couple in the first few critical weeks...