Just Because...

Going Bananas?
Cher & Apes

Just Because Cher: The Memoir, Part One is out today and Just Because we could all use some levity here she is doing a riff on Planet of the Apes on The Sonny & Cher Show.

You remember that guy Sonny Bono she started her singing career with?! Well if you don't I'm sure she will have plenty to say about him in her book, there you have that.

Cher has had quite the life and career after all.

For even more fun you can check out the Planet of the Apes skit with the late Jim Nabors after the jump, Just Because... 

Cher on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/cher/?hl=en  

Dark Lady v White Witch

Dark Lady v White Witch
Cher & Stevie Nicks

So here we have a Cher and Stevie Nicks meme made for Halloween Month. They are in two of their fame grabbing personas The Dark Lady & The White Witch (I'm sure you can guess which one is witch.)

Time to choose your warrior Minions! Which witch is your stan? 

Honestly I wished they had something less black and white, so to speak. Personally I think they need to find a more balanced betwixt the two.

I'm guessing that makes me the Dark Witch or the White Lady? 

Ugh! Just no! I'm going to do my own thing and create my own category.

Tim to go ride my disco stick! TGIF!

Cher on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/cher/?hl=en

Stevie on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/stevienicks/?hl=en

Hump Day & Chill

Cher

Time to break out your roller skates and Hump Day & Chill. "Yes" I said roller skating, got an issue with that? I used to skate a lot in my younger days, it was funtastic!

I feel like nothing captures a rolling down the boardwalk feeling better than Cher seen here skating at Venice Beach, CA 1979.

See how much fun Cher is having? Doesn't she look chill? Of course she does she's Cher damn it!

I haven't been to Venice Beach in years, perhaps it is time to return and have a Hump Day & Chill skate and take in all the unique sights and sounds that are Venice.

Just Skate It Minions!

Roller Skating on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_skating

Stupid Witch

Upon seeing this meme I cackled like a witch. It also reminded me of what a heaping pile of sh!t The Blair Witch Project actually is.

If any of you reading this love or even remotely like this, whatever the eff it is, please feel free to take your low IQ elsewhere.

Hey it's Monday and I'm slightly cranky and am entitled to a bit of a rant.

Call me self indulgent and move on!!!

Cher on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/cher/?hl=en 

"Spring Forward"

Remember to "Spring Forward" tonight...

Daylight Saving Time on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

Dark Lady

"She Dealt Two Cards, A Queen And A Three..."
Chrissy Teigen 

"Dark lady played black magic 'til the clock struck on the 12

She told me more about me than I knew myself" - Cher, Dark Lady  

So's here's Chrissy Teigen out and about in Los Angeles attired head to toe in black, naturally. Well OK, not perhaps naturally per se, but looking good.

For some reason the the song Dark Lady by Cher sprang to mind when I saw this photo. 

I mean seriously, couldn't you see Chrissy in New Orleans fortune telling with cards in this outfit? I sure can and perhaps she has a black cat for effect.

Hold on I'm getting a vibration from looking at Ms. Teigen, it says you are all going to seize the day and make it yours.

Dark Lady indeed!!!

Chrissy on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/chrissyteigen/?hl=en  

Diva Mood

The Tweet Of Cher
Cher & Madonna

Diva:  "a famous and successful woman who is very attractive and fashionable" Merriam-Webster

Today I woke up feeling myself, like, well a diva - minus the woman part. We men can be divas too, trust me.

I guess Cher was feeling it as well. Part of my morning routine is to get on Twitter and what was the first Tweet I spied? One from Cher with her and another diva Madonna with the simple caption: Me & Madge.

Hey when you are as famous and successful as these two that's all you need. 

Thus the tone is set for the week Minions, let loose your inner diva, like me. Feel good about yourself, while feeling your bad self. Yeah that's the ticket to ride...

All things Diva on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva

Current Mood

This photo of Cher protesting the hijacking of the USPS by the evil bitch baby known as Donald Trump (I will never refer to him as President) sums up my Current Mood: "Snap Out Of It!"

For those that may not understand the reference the phrase "Snap Out Of It" was uttered by Cher in the movie she won the Oscar for Moonstruck.

Now that we have that point made, if you don't care about what is happening to our government at present "Snap Out Of It!"

If you do not care about what is happening to the environment "Snap Out Of It!"

If you don't care about racism "Snap Out Of It!"

This list could go on at great length, but I believe my Current Mood has been explained with clarity. 

I will leave this here have a great day and if you haven't already "Snap Out Of It!" and buy some stamps, I have.

The USPS Online -

https://www.usps.com/  

Mask

Cher

Remember when Cher starred in the movie Mask for which she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985? Well maybe you don't but whatever, it's a fact and if you are not familiar you know how to Google just put your hands on the keyboard and type.

Anyway today we have the ever fashionable, not to mention ageless icon shopping with the caption she posted stating: "Please wear Masks. I wear gloves 2"

That's correct Minions, Cher is seen shopping with a mask on and complimentary gloves. No complaints all in and doing her part to help keep the Corona Virus under control.

Moving forward peeps, don't be a Karen be a Cher!!!

It will make your Sunday Funday that much more, well, fun 😎

Cher on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/cher

Hump Day & Chill - Tom Connan

Multi-Faceted artist Tom Connan has just released a remix of his song "Chaos" which tackles the subject of drug addiction in a very direct and realistic manner. I just had to know what inspired Tom to "go there" so without further adieu let's Hump Day & Chill with Tom Connan!

MS: I love your song Chaos, obviously it resonates with many others as you did a "Black Mix" of it and a whole new video. What made you decide to do a song addressing drug addiction?

TC: I wanted to make a song addressing drugs because several friends of mine fell into that trap, went to rehab etc. It's a horrible phenomenon which is also closely linked to everyone's personal history. Nobody takes cocaine or things like that just because it's "fun". I see a lot of people feeling depressed and trying to escape with drugs. To my own point of view, I think our modern society creates a lot of psychological frustration which sometimes become a real pathology. It's not exactly the same as alcohol, even if it's also some kind of drug, after all. But with cocaine, or heroin, people are looking for something new, some brutal effect in order to erase their negative thoughts. Except it doesn't work. However, I have a lot of empathy for drug addicts as life can sometimes be a very sad and tough experience.

MS: Requiem For A Dream is one of my favorite films. I am guessing you have seen it based on the video. What are your thoughts on it?

TC: I love Requiem For A Dream and I'm very happy that you mention it. I was a child when I first saw it, but then I saw it again a few years ago and I was absolutely fascinated. Not only because it's so realistic, but also because it has this ability to grab you and force you to see what you don't want to see. I think this is precisely where cinema is the best among any other arts. With the combination of music and images, you can't help but looking at it and being focused. Of course normal people feel bad when they see that kind of movie, but sometimes we need to see embarrassing things to increase our awareness about something. I enjoy feeling embarrassed. All the time we watch stupid shows and stupid ads on TV, and it's easy for the mind. With movies like Requiem For A Dream, or Fight Club, or Eyes Wide Shut, we really learn something and become someone new -at some level.

MS: While you show plenty of skin in the re-mix video, you showed a little more in the video for the single. Why did you decide to leave your booty out this time?

TC: Lol, I don't want to show that booty too often. More seriously, this new video was something like the "dark" side of the first one. With the original video, I was trying to show the recreational aspect of taking drugs, which is obvious for everyone. With this second one, I wanted to describe how it can evolve. I have the feeling that in any phenomenon, we can find a "positive" and a "negative" side -we all know that-, but also that we can't delete one part for the other. You can't have the positive if you don't want to take the risk associated with it. If you want to have fun, you have to accept that, at some point, you can put your life at risk. It's the same in love affairs. Love can be a fantastic experience, but when it ends -which happens quite often- it can drive you nuts, so nuts that you want to kill yourself. Love is dangerous, drugs are dangerous, life is inherently dangerous.

MS: Your look in the video is very reminiscent of David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth. Especially when you are shirtless, am I on to something?

TC: Honestly I don't know very much of David Bowie, I was more into singers like Michael Jackson (or even Marilyn Manson). That said, I'm a big fan of transgender and genderfluid pop icons like Bowie, Cher or Prince. Playing with feminine and masculine sides of the human body is so interesting. My own body changed quite a lot the last few years, and I enjoyed all the different levels, if I can say so. We only live once, for me, we need to experience different versions of ourselves. French poet Arthur Rimbaud said something like that in the 19th century.

MS: I love that Tom Connan has gotten freer and more out there creatively.

TC: I think you're totally right about the "freer" person I became. Back a few years ago, I was obsessed with other people's opinion. Now, I just don't give a fuck. My work is not understood by everybody, including in my family, and I think that's good. If you follow what your parents or your brothers want you to do, you'll never achieve your dream. We need to stick to our own model, that nobody can copy. There are tons of singers and artists out there, I don't want to look like them. I want to express my personal, and radical freedom. Otherwise it's absolutely useless.

MS: Spill about your other ventures outside the music world.

TC: The last two years I worked a lot on other ventures outside the music world, I changed the project name many times, and I finally decided to simply choose one name for every division of the brand: Connan. That's simple, that's neutral, that's honest -it's my real last name- and there's no confusion with my full artist name. It's currently a website (connan.io) when you'll soon be able to find different cultural products: music (not only mine), tv, books, fashion and art. I'm currently working with other artists for the music division, as well as authors for the publishing division. It's super exciting as I'm working on several levels at the same time: my next novel will be published by a well-known French publisher called Albin Michel, but I will also publish myself other authors as an entrepreneur. It's great to have this opportunity to work as an author as well as a publisher. The best is yet to come. 

MS: If you could be any famous person fictional or not, who would you be?

TC: I'd love to be Tyler Durden, that Fight Club character played by Brad Pitt. He's gorgeous, he's radical, he's clever, he wants to revolt against society. That's a role model for me. No joke.

Get social with Tom at:
https://connan.io/

https://www.instagram.com/tomconnan/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/TomConnan

https://www.facebook.com/tomconnan/  

Turn Back Time...

It's that time of year again to get in formation and Fall Back, not to be confused with Hollaback.

Thus it's time to trot out that tired yet effective Cher meme that utilizes her hit single If I Could Turn Back Time. While I know the meaning of the song has nothing to do with literal time change, I wonder if Cher had an inkling she would become the meme poster child for Falling Back?

Personally I don't see how she couldn't have had some sort of an notion. It's such an obvious get.

Moving on, remember to set your clocks back one hour tonight. That means you get an extra sixty minutes added to your day tomorrow...Yay!

Cher on IG -
https://www.instagram.com/cher/?hl=en

Here We Go Again

Dig In The Dancing Queen
Cher

It's Sunday Funday, and what could be more fun than Cher kicking off her Here We Go Again tour at the Germain Arena is Estero, Florida? I ask you, "yes" I am asking you, gimme gimme an answer before midnight please. That like Cher's tour is an ABBA reference.

As you might recall Cher made quite the splash in the sequel to Mama Mia! this past summer in Mama Mia! Here We Go Again. It was a smash resulting in her topping the charts with an album of ABBA covers called, what else? Dancing Queen!!!

Of course a tour of her singing those covers amongst other hits was inevitable, thus Here We Go Again. Which is also quite cheeky considering how many times Cher went on something known as "The Farewell Tour"...Here we go again, indeed!

Bend it like Cher today and truly make your Sunday a Fun Day!!!

Cher on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/cher/?hl=en  

Freaky Friday

Do You Believe In...
Tom Cruise & Cher

"It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone" - Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone 

You have now been transported to another time and place. The year is 1985 the place Sean Penn & Madonna's wedding. This is where Cher and Tom Cruise met, and "yes" started dating...

WTF?! Well Virginia this twosome totally dated! The Twilight Zone was a product of Hollywood and now you know why, because things like this happen in Tinseltown, thus "The Zone" is real kiddies.

Cher has spilled that Tom was one of her best lovers. I am going to have to venture this was before he joined the cult of Scientology and became a mechanical boy. Because I honestly can't imagine him being all that good now. The early years, when he came across like a flesh and blood human being, fer sure.

So I'm gonna leave you with this trip to contemplate on this Freaky Friday, right here, right now...

Mic Drop!

Cher on IG -
https://www.instagram.com/cher/?hl=en

Tom on IG -
https://www.instagram.com/tomcruise/?hl=en

Here We Go Again!

Dancing Queens
Cher & Meryl Streep

"Yes" today marks the opening of the sequel no one was asking for Mama Mia! Here We Go Again. This being stated how can you resist Cher & Meryl Streep together again? (the first time was in Silkwood circa 1983) -

Now if I was a betting man I would have to say this is a casting only a studio executive with their eye on the box office could have made. I mean Cher & Meryl doing ABBA in the ultimate Mom (and Gay) friendly film?! It's a no brainer...

I will be sitting this one out. I really didn't care for the first one. As Meryl explained that she took the movie mainly to embarrass her children, I say "mission accomplished."

This does not mean I don't enjoy seeing the two hit the red carpet together to promote the venture as seen here at the London premiere. 

Hey, I may be a tough audience when it comes to the content of what actually watch, but I still love the glamour and cache these two have together.

It's time for me to get the Mama Mia outta here and get on with my Friday...ciao!

Mama Mia! Here We Go Again on IMDB -
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6911608/  

Michael's Musings

And The Oscar Goes To...
Michael Shinafelt

"I never really saw anything grow before. How tiny those seeds were and yet they know they were supposed to be lettuces." - Marilyn Monroe, The Misfits

While Marilyn Monroe never won a Best Actress Oscar she did in my mind for The Misfits. Written by her former husband Arthur Miller and Directed by the great John Houston. Marilyn Monroe etched a portrait in my soul as Roslyn Taber. 

Even though she won a Golden Globe for Some Like It Hot (she was brilliant) Oscar gold always eluded her. 

Didn't we all fancy a dream in passing when we were young of winning one? But of course we did! Moving on as we got older and realized being an Academy Award Winning star might not necessarily be out path?

With the arrival of the big event Sunday this weeks column is a tribute, trivia and salute to the dreamer in us all!

Oscar Winner for Funny Girl Barbara Streisand had her dog cloned. Hey Barbara, did you not see Pet Semetary?! 

Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in the bathroom

I've held the Oscar that Dan Jinks won as Producer for Best Picture, American Beauty

 "As a little kid I lived in the projects, and you're the people I watched. You're the people wanted—made me want to be an actor. I'm so proud to be here. I'm proud to be an actor and I'm gonna keep on acting. And thank you so much" Whoopi Goldberg,Best Supporting Actress for Ghost

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

Meryl Streep is the most nominated in the Best Actress category for an Oscar, clocking in at 17 nominations 

Jack Nicholson is the most nominated actor with 12 under his belt

My dream was always to win an Oscar for portraying someone truly evil

"When I was little my mother said, "I want you to be something." And I guess this represents twenty-three or twenty-four years of my work, and I've never won anything before from my peers. I'm really, really happy" Cher, Best Actress for Moonstruck 

Margot Robbie

My personal pic for Best Actress this year? Margot Robbie for I, Tonya 

Who could ever forget Sally Field's battle cry:  "I can't deny the fact that you like me. Right now, you like me!"

Remember that time when 72 year old Jack Palance won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for City Slickers and did one armed push-ups on stage? I do.

Weirdest Oscar winning song? It's Hard Out There For a Pimp by 3 6 Mafia from Hustle & Flow

Strange Best Supporting Actor Nominee: Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder. He's great! But think about it, not too much.

And the Oscar goes to...find out this Sunday!

In the meantime follow me at:
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https://twitter.com/MShinafelt   

"I Do" Colton Haynes

I Got You Babe
Colton Haynes, Jeff Leatham & Cher

It's just another Manic Monday, time to start a new week, yadda yadda, yadda...actor Colton Haynes of Arrow and Teen Wolf fame is engaged to his boyfriend Jeff Leatham, three cheers for the happy couple!

Jeff proposed to Colton on the beach at the Las Ventanas al Paraiso in Los Cabos, Mexico Saturday night. Oh what a proposal it was, Cher was even involved in a video message lead in singing I Got You Babe. This of course was followed by fireworks and being that that groom is a celebrity and Four Seasons Hotel floral designer, yes there were flowers.

Colton & Jeff

What's a boy to do? Say "Yes" naturally.

Colton & Jeff sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

Colton on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/coltonlhaynes/?hl=en

Deja Vu

From The Cher Playbook
Nicki Minaj

OK, Cher fans tell me what you see when you glance at this photo of Nicki Minaj shooting a video in Miami? If you thought Holy Shades of Cher I completely understand and relate as I did too!

Yes Darling Nicki there are those of us out there who recognize this look is a copy of one that the Goddess Cher donned back in her Sonny & Cher days. So that means we are basically old, and don't win any sort of prize other than the privilege to be smug.

Oddly no one has pointed this fact out with the blurbs that accompany this image on the WWW. My guess is either they are too young to know, or perhaps they do know and decided to let old people like myself have a smug time.

Whatever the case Cher wore it best and it shows Nicki has good taste in the inspiration department. 

Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves indeed!

Nicki on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nickiminaj/?hl=en  

Women's March

We've Got The Power
Madonna & Cher
Washington DC

Yesterday were the Women's Marches heard round the world! While I was unable to attend this Historic Event, I did follow it throughout the day thanks to the wonder of technology.

My favorite sign for the day? "Carrie Fisher didn't die for this shit!" I am sure she is beaming with pride somewhere.

No one should have their human rights taken away. Women's Rights are human rights whether  you be gay, straight, transgender, bi-sexual or fluid. What's happening in our country now is utter bullshit. Who is a corrupt ego maniac/bully/narcissist/male chauvinist/prick whose married to a sex worker place to make these decisions for any woman?

I decided to gather images from the sacred event from yesterday, the most notable one? Madonna & Cher at the Women's March on Washington DC - the others? I gathered from my friends who posted them on Facebook.

Let's Celebrate Life & The Personal Power We All Have!!!

 Summer Rudolph
Portland, OR

Erik Wilso
Los Angeles, CA

Romi Simmons
Los Angeles, CA

 Ali Wagner & Chantal Pershing
Los Angeles, CA

Whether you marched or not you can always use your voice. Donate to Planned Parenthood here:

https://secure.ppaction.org/site/Donation2?df_id=12913&12913.donation=form1  

Turn Back Time, With Cher

Turn Back Time,
Please Cher

Tomorrow daylight savings time ends. Yeah, I know, don't you hate that? This year instead of riding on a bummer about it, I decided to make it a fun little party of sorts.

How you may ask? How about we turn back time with ten quotes from Singer/Academy Award winning actress of the song about past regret, Cher!

Isn't this much more entertaining than being annoyed with it like most of us usually are?

Happy Saturday before the end of time!

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. 

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me. 

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me. 

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. 

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican? 

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in. 

I keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing. 

People are negative no matter what you do. 

I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things. 

Go cannon humping with Cher below -

Share with Cher on Social Media at:

https://www.instagram.com/cher/
https://twitter.com/cher
https://www.facebook.com/cher/    

Marc Jacobs Does "Believe" in Cher

What Cher is Wearing This Fall

As fall 2015 draws nigh, be on the lookout for images of Cher wearing Marc Jacobs for his fall 2015 campaign.

The multi-faceted Cher now has working Marc Jacobs designs this fall on her vast to do list.

Willow Smith is also on board as well, but does anyone really care with Cher occupying the same orbit?

Cher joining the campaign is definitely a smart move Mr. Jacobs. In Cher we "Believe!"

Happy Manic Monday!

Cher : https://www.facebook.com/cher
Marc Jacobs: https://www.facebook.com/marcjacobsintl