- Title: USA: SONNY AND CHER ARE HONOURED WITH A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
- Date: 15th May 1998
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MAY 15, 1998) (REUTERS) MEDIA FILMING AS STAR IS UNVEILED MARY BONO AND CHER POSING WITH STAR CAMERAS FILMING THE EVENT CLOSE VIEW OF STAR AND CHER'S FEET, CHER STANDING OVER STAR DAUGHTER CHASTITY BONO AND FEMALE COMPANION WALKING INTO PICTURE AND EMBRACING CHER FOR CAMERAS FANS AT EVENT, APPLAUDING CHER SAYING, "YOU KNOW I THINK THAT "SONNY AND CHER" MEANS A LOT OF THINGS TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. IT MEANS SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO EVERYONE AND WITH SONNY'S DEATH IT REMINDED ME HOW MUCH OF AN IMPACT "SONNY AND CHER" HAS HAD ON ME THROUGH MY WHOLE LIFE SINCE THE FIRST TIME I EVER MET HIM WHEN I WAS SIXTEEN. EVEN UNTIL TODAY AND EVEN UNTIL THE REST OF MY DAYS YOU KNOW." (ENGLISH) CLOSE VIEW OF STAR
- Embargoed: 30th May 1998 13:00
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA3WEQ35WKVKPDG2E0U3X05GV0P
- Story Text: Husband and wife singing duo Sonny and Cher have been recognised with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame -- an honour that eluded them during their joint singing and performing career and also during Sonny's life.
Four months after the death of Congressman Sonny Bono in a skiing accident in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, his widow Mary shared billing with the now solo Cher at a ceremony during the unveiling of the star on Friday (May 15).
While the stars are usually little more than a public relations ploy used to prop up a sagging career or boost the opening day grosses of the honoree's latest movie release, "Sonny and Cher had not performed together in more than 20 years.They had been divorced for an equal length of time.
Cher's career since leaving her one-time Svengali has proved meteoric.
In addition to continuing to record albums, the former Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere has appeared in such films as "Mask," "the Witches of Eastwick" and "Moonstruck," for which she won an Academy Award in 1986 for Best Actress.
In the mid-1960's, trading on his proficiency writing such pop songs as "Needles and Pins", Sonny took on the 15-year younger Cher as his performing partner.
The hippiesh duo recorded a string of hits including "The Beat goes On" and their signature song "I got You Babe." Always considered more a novelty act than musical trendsetters, the husband wife team were able to sell the act as a television show, resulting in the highly succesful eponymously titled show which ran from 1971-1974.
As their act foundered, so did their marriage, leaving little legacy but a daughter, Chastity.Cher would marry once more, to the rock musician Greg Allman, with whom she had a child, Elijah Blue.
Sonny would marry again, to Mary and have two children with her.He subsequently became a succesful restaurateur and politician, turning a term as the largely ceremonial Mayor of Palm springs, California, into a seat in the United States Congress.
Publicly honouring Sonny and Cher together is the latest twist in the reconciliation Cher has made with the legacy of her former husband.During his life, Cher often spoke disparagingly of Sonny, ridiculing him and detailing a life together of symbolic enslavement of her by the man she met when she was 16.
In memory of Sonny, Cher will be hosting a show entitled "Sonny and Me: Cher Remembers," which will feature film clips from the couple's early television performances as well as rare footage of their years together on tour and film clips from their two television series. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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