There's No Denying The Girl's Staying Power
Newcastle Herald
Monday July 22, 2002
IF you want a graphic portrayal of how long Cher (right) has been a star ? or at least a focus of the print media ? visit the aptly named Web site everythingcher.com and click on `magazines'.
There, you'll find replications of the 85 magazine covers Cher has graced over the past 37 years, including 22 editions of People and the covers of everything from Vanity Fair and Esquire to 101 Hairstyles and Longevity.
Cher, 56, is taking her farewell tour ? the Living Proof Show ? around America. Though the `farewell' part seems dubious, now is as good a time as any to consider one of Cher's most extraordinary and genuine traits: her enduring stardom.
Lots of people have been famous for merely being famous, in an Andy Warhol sense. But few have managed to sustain mega-stardom as long as Cher, who has touched every major medium ? music, television, film ? in every decade since the 1960s. And not by accident.
`I wanted to be invited to wonderful parties,' she told Rolling Stone back in 1984. `I wanted to be famous, but I really didn't know how to do anything. I had no skills ... but still I wanted to be famous. I even had my autograph down, the same way I do today, when I was 12.'
In a recent edition of Out magazine, Cher had some things to say about what she thinks is the most devout contingent in her eclectic audience: `Gay men are so loyal to you ... If gay men love you, they don't really leave you.'
© 2002 Newcastle Herald
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