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 Continued from Page 1... NYROCK: You've never been invited to one of those? CHER: No! NYROCK: Guess you've got to get on those lists! CHER: Yeah, like I'd go! NYROCK: With the holidays upon us, do you have any special memories to share? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHER: | Well, one that comes up for me is that when my children were young, I had just gotten a house in Aspen. And I was making the food, and all that. I do really great holiday meals. But I didn't know that there was something called "high-altitude cooking!" And I ruined the whole thing. My turkey blew up! It was horrible. And then one Christmas, like an asshole, I locked myself out of the house. And I didn't have any keys. It was wonderful! But all the Christmases when my kids were little were just great. There was one year, where I was just so depressed, that I didn't open my presents. I opened them in July. I just didn't care. But I think that Christmas is really for kids. And I have so many little friends. I mean, I end up buying Christmas presents for a hundred and fifty, or two hundred kids that I know. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYROCK: |
You've been on a TV show. Would you ever go back to doing TV? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHER: | Probably not. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYROCK: |
Why? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHER: | I just don't think I'd be good at it. I've lost my feeling for TV. I just think it's all mean and stupid. I'm sure there are good shows that I haven't seen. But I don't like it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYROCK: |
Your show was a good, old-fashioned variety show. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHER: | Yeah, it was like vaudeville. But people don't like that. If people wanted that, they would have that. You know, instead of people eating worms, and doing strange things. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYROCK: |
Have you ever thought about doing voice for an animated movie? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHER: | I have called everybody and asked everybody I've seen. Hey, I'm funny. I'm an actress. Don't you think there's something to that? But nobody wants me to be in an animated thing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYROCK: |
What do you feel was special about the time when you first broke out into entertainment? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHER: | When Sonny and I started, it was the beginning of people writing and producing their own records, and singing on them. Before then, there was a producer who would give you the songs. So that was a big time for singer-songwriters. And it was a new thing, not like now. I know of people who were really untalented, who were making a lot of money. But you couldn't make the kind of money that you can make now. People used to have to have regular jobs during the off season. It's not like now, where you can get millions of dollars, and have clothing lines, and open restaurants, and stuff like that. And there were no people who taught you how to dance. Or hairdressers, or makeup people. It was just you. It was just different. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYROCK: |
How about that scene in Stuck On You, with you and your designated love interest Frankie Muniz together in bed? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHER: | Well, like I told you before, I don't watch TV. But I knew his name, and I knew he was famous, and that he had a TV show. But I had no idea what he looked like. So I'm on the set, in bed. And I'm totally lit, so everything beyond the set is black; I can't see anything. So out of the darkness comes this little boy who jumps in the bed, and takes off his shirt. And he says, "All right, I've done my pushups out there, and I'm pumped and ready to go!" And I just looked at him and said, "Can I get into trouble for this?!" Because he looked like he was eight years old! And I said, "What is your mom gonna say about this?" And he said, "Well, she's right out there." And I couldn't see her in the dark, so that just made me feel worse. Then Frankie said, "Look, I'm seventeen, and I'm gonna be eighteen by the time this movie comes out!" But he was funny, and we had a blast. He was great. But I was so shocked. And there was more to that scene, but they cut it out. Because it was... too much for the audience! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYROCK: |
Will it be on the DVD? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHER: | I hope so! I think so. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYROCK: |
So what got cut out? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CHER: | It wasn't physical stuff; it was more words. We kept talking as the lights went out. I tell him, "You've got to go to bed now; you've got a geometry test tomorrow." And he goes, "Oh, okay," and turns off the TV. Then he rolls over and says, "Can I at least touch your nips?" You know, everyone was laughing. We thought it was hysterical. But I was told that at the screenings, people thought it was just too much. I thought it was hysterical! But I guess you had to be there. December 2003
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