He believes that women “must do” what man says. Sonny (who calls himself “El Primo!”) is definitely, according to Cher, a male chauvinist. What does he mean, women really don’t want independence? Is he saying that this drive to independence leads to frigidity and lesbianism? If so he, was out of step with the times, and perhaps with his own wife. So many young girls are just spinning wheels.” The independence woman has acquired but doesn’t necessarily want. Sonny explained that the movie was about “the increase in frigidity and the increase in lesbianism… the lack of manhood. Following the failure of their first movie, Good Times, by sinking their not-inconsiderable personal fortune into financing the “art film” Chastity, which he also directed:
In short order, A Star Is Born.Īlso, since I have the benefit of living 40 years in the future, I know that Sonny and Cher would eventually reconcile professionally and personally, but at this point Sonny comes off like a no-talent turd. He is working as an A&R man for Phil Spector, and he gets Cher gigs singing backup vocals. It was still hard to find an apartment, and it was harder to rent with a child.” Cher came, John says, “that close to being an abortion.”ĭropping out of high school in the 11 th grade, Cher meets the much older Sonny Bono through a mutual friend.
“When Cher came along, it put a burden on us. “We went together about eight months, then got married. Her oft-wed mother ( twice to Sarkesian) named her after Lana Turner’s daughter, Cheryl Crane (talk about being born under a bad sign). The cover touts Cher’s father tells all! And in the very first chapter Pellegrino notes that John Sarkesian is suing his daughter for $4,000,000 for slander after she quipped in People magazine that she hadn’t heard from him in years and “I don’t even know what he’s doing, but it’s probably nothing legal.”Ĭher’s parents both actually sound like walking nightmares. By the end you just want to yell “DON’T WORRY, CHER! THERE WILL BE HIT ALBUMS AND ACADEMY AWARDS SOON! HANG IN THERE!” The whole thing is pretty sleazy behind that teen-mag style cover. Author Pellegrino also undertakes to make the biography as breathlessly sensational as humanly possible, relying on sources identified as “former friends”, as well as Cher’s estranged father. With a publication date of September, 1975, Cher! came at a low point in Cher’s career: recently divorced from Sonny Bono and mired in lawsuits, hit TV show cancelled due to the divorce, and re-married but legally separated from Gregg Allman, Cher’s life is kind of a mess. Unlike the last week’s quickie celebrity biography, in which the subject had not yet done much of note, the author here has to contend with a subject that might just be (GASP!) washed up.
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