Post by oh my cher on Jul 25, 2005 12:13:53 GMT -5
Thank you Boston Q & Just Plain Cher
Steve: Good afternoon!
Cher (with a British accent): Good afternoon!
Steve: How are you?
Cher: I'm okay. I'm a little hoarse.
Steve: [laughs] I don't think so... not from this angle.
Cher: [laughs]
Steve: So, you've got a little bit of a bad throat, have ya?
Cher: No, I just have an allergy.
Steve: Ah, it's an allergy. Yeah... What caused that then?
Cher: [laughing] The air quality in Los Angeles!
Steve: Alright. Well, just don't go out – just stay in. Now listen, what color is your hair at the moment, and can you describe what you're wearing right now?
Cher: Alright. Well, my hair is my normal hair – it's just black and long.
Steve: Yeah.
Cher: And I've got a sweatshirt on that says "BROOKLYN", and then I've got a little t-shirt on under that...
Steve: Right.
Cher: Then I got some very snazzy sweatpants...
Steve: Wearing anything leather?
Cher: Just my boots! I'm wearing big, black, leather, thigh-high... [laughs]
Steve: Oh, say some more!
Cher: I just came from working out in my bad workout clothes.
Steve: Oh, even better.
Cher: I don't have any underpants on though, if that makes ya happy! [laughs]
Steve: Oh, my God... you're gonna have to stop. I'm gonna have to go away and come back…
Cher: [laughs]
Steve: So, anyway... Listen, the thing is... Is this tour... I was watching you on...
Cher: YES, IT IS! It's the LAST tour...
Steve: No... What you'll probably do is like go away for five years, and then comeback after five years… or something like that.
Cher: No, in five years, I'll be in an old age home.
Steve: [laughs] I don't think so. The last time I saw you, it was down at "The Lottery Show", and you were on it that day. I was just down there with my kids because I know a few people down there, and you were on. And, as usual, you just looked like you were about 22 years old, and I know there's talk that you might have had some work done...
Cher: It's mass hypnosis!
Steve: I know, I know... you knew what I was going to say... But, apart from any rumours, what is the secret of your good looks and your youthful appearance?
Cher: First of all, I'm very immature. And secondly, you should see my 90-year-old grandmother!
Steve: [laughs]
Cher: I'm not kidding! She still goes to the gym. I asked her what she wanted for her 90th birthday, which we just celebrated, and she wanted collagen in her lips!
Steve: [laughs] And a biker boy!
Cher: Yeah! She went to church looking for a boyfriend, and she said they dress terribly.
Steve: [laughs] That's funny! So here you are. Look, you're in the fifth decade of your career. I'm a bit of an America-phile, and I know your work, and I know you from the '50s and '60s and all of that because I'm quite old myself.
Cher: Wait a minute! I was in school in the '50s!
Steve: [laughs] Sorry, I didn't mean it like that – it came out wrong...
Cher: [laughs] Alright.
Steve: But thinking back to the old TV shows that you used to do, and I saw that TV special you did recently in America, and I'm thinking you're just so comfortable on television. You've been known to the American public and to the world for five decades. Do you think that you've kind of led the way for people like Madonna, and Christina [Aguilera], and Britney [Spears]?
Cher: Oh, I could just pretend I don't think I didn't... but yea, I did! Tina's [Turner] the only person I know that's as old as me that's still working… but I was more naked than Tina.
Steve: Oh, yea…
Cher: So, that was just something that... It was a hard job, but it was one I chose to do.
Steve: But also, your style is like… you've been the "Mistress of Reinvention"...
Cher: I like to think of myself as the "Dominatrix of Reinvention".
Steve: Oh my goodness.
Cher: A "mistress" is so dismissive, ya know?
Steve: [laughs] Yeah. No, that's not what I meant... You're showing them the way. You've shown these people the way and how to do it...
Cher: Yea, okay... It didn't come out of real, concentrated effort. It's just that I get so bored. And also, the people in Europe really don't know about "The Sonny & Cher Show", and on "The Sonny & Cher Show", every week I had like five different hair colors and twenty different outfits. In America, people know that I have a really weird sense of humor, so that's why I think I'm so comfortable here because I pretty much can say anything and they just know that I have this bizarre sense of humor. Like, somebody called me and said, "oh, ya know, we saw The Farewell Tour, and in it, ya know, you say mean things about JLo, and Christina Aguilera, and Britney." And I went, "no, I didn't." Well, I mean, of course, yea, I did, but it's just tongue in cheek, so get a hold of yourself.
Steve: The tour is coming to Europe, so [reads UK tour dates]. You like Britain, don't you?
Cher: Yeah, I do. I mean, it was the first place I was ever famous, and I lived there in Wapping before it was popular and cool.
Steve: Did you?
Cher: Yup. I lived in a rum warehouse.
Steve: Good God. I didn't know that.
Cher: I lived in a rum warehouse over a pub.
Steve: Yeah? And you used to get the Tube into the West End?
Cher: Nope, don't be ridiculous! There's only so far I can go.
Steve: [laughs] Did you come up on the bike? [laughs]
Cher: No. [laughs] No, but I used to do my rollerblading around there.
Steve: Oh, very, very cool. What about acting? Because I know that you've gone back to acting – you're in a movie at the moment, in fact, aren't you?
Cher: Yeah. I did a movie with The Farrelly Brothers and Matt Damon called STUCK ON YOU about these conjoined twins – one's older and one's younger.
Steve: Yeah... Why didn't you when, in the early `90s, you had that blast of making some more movies, did you not want to stay just as a movie star?
Cher: Ya know, I did three movies in a row, I did an album, and then I did a tour, and then the movies came out so I had to go all around the world, and then I got the Academy Award… and then, I just pretty much fell apart for awhile. I got really, really sick and couldn't work for two years.
Steve: Tell me about Sonny because you two weren't really estranged. You were close all through your life, weren't you?
Cher: Yeah… I mean we used to fight all the time and it didn't make any real difference. We never fought when we were married, that's the strange thing… I just always gave in. But, afterwards, we would fight, but, ya know, it didn't make any difference. On the day that we got divorced, and we walked out [of the courthouse] and they want to take a picture -– he kisses me, and sticks his tongue down my throat!
Steve: [laughs]
Cher: That was him. He was just nuts. I would visit him. I would go stay at his house.
Steve: Were you surprised, I mean, having been in the partnership and on with you for so many years, were you surprised he wound up in politics?
Cher: I wasn't surprised that he wound up in politics at all. I was incredulous that he became a Republican! I just couldn't imagine that.
Steve: And you miss him?
Cher: Well, yeah. We were just talking about him the other night because when we were celebrating Mother's Day and my mother's birthday because I'm not gonna to be here, so my Mom brought me this hysterical thing. It was two [teddy] bears, and they're hugging, and you have to press one of their little fingers, and they sang "I Got You Babe" to each other.
Steve: That's cute… that's brilliant.
Cher: I have dreams about him, ya know? It's, like, really weird – he just kinda hangs around.
Steve: Alright. What do you think of the whole "American Idol" thing?
Cher: Oh, I think it's crap!
Steve: Do you? Why?
Cher: I just do. I think it's just dumb!
Steve: Do you not like Simon Cowell?
Cher: Well… I didn't think he was much of anything.
Steve: [laughs] That was almost a trick question, wasn't it? [laughs] The UK leg of Cher's Farewell Tour begins in Glasgow on May 11th, and visits Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, and London… So, you'll be coming over in a couple weeks time. Will you be going back to Wapping at all, or not?
Cher: I don't know. Somebody lives in my place.
Steve: [laughs] Do you want me to see if I can rent it out for you while you're over here?
Cher: [laughs] Yes.
Steve: I'll go and check it… I'll get you a ticket for the Tube as well, if you want to get around a bit.
Cher: [laughs] Okay.
Steve: See ya when you get here.
Cher: Give me a cabbie's license, and I can drive you.
Steve: [laughs] Look everybody, ladies and gentlemen, it was CHER on "Radio 2" on "Steve Wright in the Afternoon"... [clapping] it was Cher everybody!
Steve: Good afternoon!
Cher (with a British accent): Good afternoon!
Steve: How are you?
Cher: I'm okay. I'm a little hoarse.
Steve: [laughs] I don't think so... not from this angle.
Cher: [laughs]
Steve: So, you've got a little bit of a bad throat, have ya?
Cher: No, I just have an allergy.
Steve: Ah, it's an allergy. Yeah... What caused that then?
Cher: [laughing] The air quality in Los Angeles!
Steve: Alright. Well, just don't go out – just stay in. Now listen, what color is your hair at the moment, and can you describe what you're wearing right now?
Cher: Alright. Well, my hair is my normal hair – it's just black and long.
Steve: Yeah.
Cher: And I've got a sweatshirt on that says "BROOKLYN", and then I've got a little t-shirt on under that...
Steve: Right.
Cher: Then I got some very snazzy sweatpants...
Steve: Wearing anything leather?
Cher: Just my boots! I'm wearing big, black, leather, thigh-high... [laughs]
Steve: Oh, say some more!
Cher: I just came from working out in my bad workout clothes.
Steve: Oh, even better.
Cher: I don't have any underpants on though, if that makes ya happy! [laughs]
Steve: Oh, my God... you're gonna have to stop. I'm gonna have to go away and come back…
Cher: [laughs]
Steve: So, anyway... Listen, the thing is... Is this tour... I was watching you on...
Cher: YES, IT IS! It's the LAST tour...
Steve: No... What you'll probably do is like go away for five years, and then comeback after five years… or something like that.
Cher: No, in five years, I'll be in an old age home.
Steve: [laughs] I don't think so. The last time I saw you, it was down at "The Lottery Show", and you were on it that day. I was just down there with my kids because I know a few people down there, and you were on. And, as usual, you just looked like you were about 22 years old, and I know there's talk that you might have had some work done...
Cher: It's mass hypnosis!
Steve: I know, I know... you knew what I was going to say... But, apart from any rumours, what is the secret of your good looks and your youthful appearance?
Cher: First of all, I'm very immature. And secondly, you should see my 90-year-old grandmother!
Steve: [laughs]
Cher: I'm not kidding! She still goes to the gym. I asked her what she wanted for her 90th birthday, which we just celebrated, and she wanted collagen in her lips!
Steve: [laughs] And a biker boy!
Cher: Yeah! She went to church looking for a boyfriend, and she said they dress terribly.
Steve: [laughs] That's funny! So here you are. Look, you're in the fifth decade of your career. I'm a bit of an America-phile, and I know your work, and I know you from the '50s and '60s and all of that because I'm quite old myself.
Cher: Wait a minute! I was in school in the '50s!
Steve: [laughs] Sorry, I didn't mean it like that – it came out wrong...
Cher: [laughs] Alright.
Steve: But thinking back to the old TV shows that you used to do, and I saw that TV special you did recently in America, and I'm thinking you're just so comfortable on television. You've been known to the American public and to the world for five decades. Do you think that you've kind of led the way for people like Madonna, and Christina [Aguilera], and Britney [Spears]?
Cher: Oh, I could just pretend I don't think I didn't... but yea, I did! Tina's [Turner] the only person I know that's as old as me that's still working… but I was more naked than Tina.
Steve: Oh, yea…
Cher: So, that was just something that... It was a hard job, but it was one I chose to do.
Steve: But also, your style is like… you've been the "Mistress of Reinvention"...
Cher: I like to think of myself as the "Dominatrix of Reinvention".
Steve: Oh my goodness.
Cher: A "mistress" is so dismissive, ya know?
Steve: [laughs] Yeah. No, that's not what I meant... You're showing them the way. You've shown these people the way and how to do it...
Cher: Yea, okay... It didn't come out of real, concentrated effort. It's just that I get so bored. And also, the people in Europe really don't know about "The Sonny & Cher Show", and on "The Sonny & Cher Show", every week I had like five different hair colors and twenty different outfits. In America, people know that I have a really weird sense of humor, so that's why I think I'm so comfortable here because I pretty much can say anything and they just know that I have this bizarre sense of humor. Like, somebody called me and said, "oh, ya know, we saw The Farewell Tour, and in it, ya know, you say mean things about JLo, and Christina Aguilera, and Britney." And I went, "no, I didn't." Well, I mean, of course, yea, I did, but it's just tongue in cheek, so get a hold of yourself.
Steve: The tour is coming to Europe, so [reads UK tour dates]. You like Britain, don't you?
Cher: Yeah, I do. I mean, it was the first place I was ever famous, and I lived there in Wapping before it was popular and cool.
Steve: Did you?
Cher: Yup. I lived in a rum warehouse.
Steve: Good God. I didn't know that.
Cher: I lived in a rum warehouse over a pub.
Steve: Yeah? And you used to get the Tube into the West End?
Cher: Nope, don't be ridiculous! There's only so far I can go.
Steve: [laughs] Did you come up on the bike? [laughs]
Cher: No. [laughs] No, but I used to do my rollerblading around there.
Steve: Oh, very, very cool. What about acting? Because I know that you've gone back to acting – you're in a movie at the moment, in fact, aren't you?
Cher: Yeah. I did a movie with The Farrelly Brothers and Matt Damon called STUCK ON YOU about these conjoined twins – one's older and one's younger.
Steve: Yeah... Why didn't you when, in the early `90s, you had that blast of making some more movies, did you not want to stay just as a movie star?
Cher: Ya know, I did three movies in a row, I did an album, and then I did a tour, and then the movies came out so I had to go all around the world, and then I got the Academy Award… and then, I just pretty much fell apart for awhile. I got really, really sick and couldn't work for two years.
Steve: Tell me about Sonny because you two weren't really estranged. You were close all through your life, weren't you?
Cher: Yeah… I mean we used to fight all the time and it didn't make any real difference. We never fought when we were married, that's the strange thing… I just always gave in. But, afterwards, we would fight, but, ya know, it didn't make any difference. On the day that we got divorced, and we walked out [of the courthouse] and they want to take a picture -– he kisses me, and sticks his tongue down my throat!
Steve: [laughs]
Cher: That was him. He was just nuts. I would visit him. I would go stay at his house.
Steve: Were you surprised, I mean, having been in the partnership and on with you for so many years, were you surprised he wound up in politics?
Cher: I wasn't surprised that he wound up in politics at all. I was incredulous that he became a Republican! I just couldn't imagine that.
Steve: And you miss him?
Cher: Well, yeah. We were just talking about him the other night because when we were celebrating Mother's Day and my mother's birthday because I'm not gonna to be here, so my Mom brought me this hysterical thing. It was two [teddy] bears, and they're hugging, and you have to press one of their little fingers, and they sang "I Got You Babe" to each other.
Steve: That's cute… that's brilliant.
Cher: I have dreams about him, ya know? It's, like, really weird – he just kinda hangs around.
Steve: Alright. What do you think of the whole "American Idol" thing?
Cher: Oh, I think it's crap!
Steve: Do you? Why?
Cher: I just do. I think it's just dumb!
Steve: Do you not like Simon Cowell?
Cher: Well… I didn't think he was much of anything.
Steve: [laughs] That was almost a trick question, wasn't it? [laughs] The UK leg of Cher's Farewell Tour begins in Glasgow on May 11th, and visits Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, and London… So, you'll be coming over in a couple weeks time. Will you be going back to Wapping at all, or not?
Cher: I don't know. Somebody lives in my place.
Steve: [laughs] Do you want me to see if I can rent it out for you while you're over here?
Cher: [laughs] Yes.
Steve: I'll go and check it… I'll get you a ticket for the Tube as well, if you want to get around a bit.
Cher: [laughs] Okay.
Steve: See ya when you get here.
Cher: Give me a cabbie's license, and I can drive you.
Steve: [laughs] Look everybody, ladies and gentlemen, it was CHER on "Radio 2" on "Steve Wright in the Afternoon"... [clapping] it was Cher everybody!