In 1973, my two younger brothers and I became professional actors. Though I was only nine, I regarded the arrival of my Screen Actor’s Guild card as the logical first step toward the realization…
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On Cher’s 70th Birthday: A Stargayzing Tribute to The Patron Saint of Gay Men
“Cher, c’mere a sec, you’re gonna love this.” It was 1999 and we were in the recording studio working. I was assisting the producer of her first post-Believe album, not.commercial. “What is it, Mrs.…
Cher is Turning 70: How You Can Help
Illustration of Cher by Corinna Tomrley.…
The Sonny & Cher Reinvention Act of 1971, by Rick Hough
Did you ever wonder how the beatnik anti-establishment Sonny & Cher of the mid-1960s became the most popular mainstream couple in the country by the the early 1970s? Guest columnist and Sonny & Cher…
Music For Dusting, the 1970s: A Gay Man’s Guide
In the early-1970s, my parents split up and my mom quickly reinvented herself as an Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore-style feminist. No longer satisfied with the limitations of 1950s-era definitions of women’s sex roles, my mother…
Songs That Should Have Been Top-10 Hits, Volume 5
1. k.d. lang, “Sing it Loud” (2011) k.d. lang is simply one of the best singers currently breathing. An intrepid boundary-crosser and rule breaker, lang has struggled with record labels from the jump. Her…
“To Cher, Love David”: A Letter Never Sent
In 1986 and 1987, I worked on the Martin Ritt film Nuts at Warner Bros. in Burbank. It was my first job out of film school and I was in a happy state of…
“How Music Began”: A Mid-Century Gay Myth for the Under-10 Set
In 1973 my fourth-grade teacher Mrs. Schindler taught a unit on Greek myths at the end of which each student was given the assignment of writing his own. My piece was called “How Music…
“Cher” Day: Acknowledging October 17, 1975
38 years ago today I got home from school and put on my wig, heels and false eyelashes and lumbered down to the basement of our split level at 15 Overhill Road. With Bridget…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time, #6 – 10
6. Robert Goulet, You and Me Against the World (1976) “Robert Goulet out, Steve McQueen in!” In addition to being name checked in Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love, one of the great songs in Marvin Hamlisch and Edward…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #9: Chér’s Cover of Paul McCartney’s “My Love”
9. Cher, “My Love” Like other legendary musical interpreters like say, Liza Minnelli, one could easily devote an entire series to bizarre Cher covers. Because of the sheer volume of viable options, choosing one…
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