Cher + Chic
Prudential Center
May 3

Cher-man of the bored?  Well, Cherilyn Sarkisian started 30+ minutes late, played one song, then recounted some meandering story that lasted 30+ minutes (or what seemed like an eternity). I was starting to get fidgety, then sleepy, then fidgleepy.  Can we turn back time to an hour+ before when Chic set the stage ablaze, tearing thru jamming hit after hit???? 

Calm down.  Once Cher finally carried on, taking us on a musical journey thru her life story, everyone became a believer!  DO YOU BELIEVE??  And I had never seen a men’s bathroom so empty at a concert!  Which is strange, considering that Cher has a lot of male fans. 

Anywho, Cher – wow.  Since last fall, and thru the end of this year, the 72-year-old will perform at least 80+ shows on her latest ‘farewell tour’.  My word.  My mom is three years older than Cher, but I couldn’t picture her doing anything remotely like this even once, in a year, and especially at anything after 7pm!

What’s the secret Cher?  Care to share Cher?  Carry on!  I mean, who wouldn’t want to see you as a 92-year-old, strutting around in that fishnet-pantyhose-see-thru outfit???

Chic Setlist – Everybody Dance / Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) / I Want Your Love / I’m Coming Out / Upside Down (Diana Ross cover) / He’s the Greatest Dancer / We Are Family (Sister Sledge cover) / Get Lucky (Daft Punk cover) / Let’s Dance (David Bowie cover) / Le Freak / Good Times / Rapper’s Delight

Cher Setlist – Woman’s World / Strong Enough / Gayatri Mantra / All or Nothing / The Beat Goes On / I Got You Babe / Welcome to Burlesque / Waterloo (ABBA cover) / SOS (ABBA cover) / Fernando (ABBA cover) / After All / Walking in Memphis (Marc Cohn cover) / The Shoop Shoop Song (Betty Everett cover) / Bang Bang (Guitar Solo) / I Found Someone (Michael Bolton cover) / If I Could Turn Back Time

Cher Encore – Believe

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Three Identical Strangers
The Jewish Boys From Brazil
Official Site | Trailers & Mo
PG-13 | 96 min

Triplets, adopted off to three separate homes within 6 months of their birth, and no knowledge that each other existed… until they miraculously found each other decades later and changed everything forever!  Hooray!!  Look at those smiles – best story ever, right?  Three Identical Strangers is definitely a best story (and a BEST documentary), but the brothers’ full story isn’t an endless trio of peaches and cream and sugar.  Things go bad!  Secrets are revealed!  And I won’t reveal them – but it’s like a Jewish version of The Boys From Brazil!!!  So fcuked up!  HAS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED!!! SEE!!  BELIEVE!!!! 

Verdictgo: Breast In Show

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Seriously, How Could I Resist You???
Official Site | Trailers & Mo
PG-13 | 114 min

It wasn’t suppose to be like this.  The sequel was suppose to be another round of Dia Rrhea!, BUT IT WASN’T!!!  Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again dared me to have fun, and dogfcukingdammit – I HAD A SUPER FUN TIME!!!  It turned me from a super pooper into a SUPER TROOPER!!!!  It was like eating endless Skittles – a rainbow of sugary goodness!!!!  Did I get softer 10 years later or is the movie actually good?  Both?  Meryl Streep is basically absent, and even without the First Lady of Acting, the party goes on – and it rages!!  And while it’s somehow REALLY nice to see the old gang again, it’s even nicer to meet their younger version selfves (especially young Christine Baranski via Jessica Keenan Wynn, and young Julie Walters via Alexa Davies) through even more fun flashbacks!!  And we got new fun folks – like Andy García and Cher and Cher’s new face that can’t move, and she can’t really dance, but she still has them pipes so who cares if her body or face can’t move!  YOU CAN MOVE AND GROOVE IN YOUR SEATS ON HER BEHALF!

Now can we stop celebrating the songs of ABBA by way of karaoke, and get the band back together and on the road?  Heck, I’ll even take ABBA holograms! 

Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Mamma nurtures at theaters everywhere today, and Strangers natures currently in limited release

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

Cher being Cher

fashion session in a Bob Mackie creation on April 9, 1978 in Los Angeles, California.  photos by Harry Langdon

Peace The Forks Out

to

A League of Her Joan

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STAT BOY

Nancy, still with us!!!!

happy birthday!

Annie Hall-way!!

where’s his ET hat?

this picture needed its own reality show

DC VICE!!!

we’d do anyone in this picture

tough Nancyied power couples!

how did we let Sylvester Stallone become famous

dude, Tom Cruise, Bruce Jenner, Cher AND Robert Rauchenberg!!!!!

#celebratetheliving

even more pics of Ron & Nancy meeting with celebrities!!!

+ some adorable ones of young Nancy!!!