Hippy History Month Essay #3

My essay is about Cheryl Sarkisian LaPiere. She is best known for pondering over the question of life after love.

Cheryl was born in 1946 in Southern California. Since there's not a lot else in Southern California, Cheryl was inspired to be an actress by watching her mom on stage. At sixteen Cheryl dropped out of highschool due to her dyslexia. At this time she changed her name to make it easier to spell.

Rehc, better known as Cher, met Sonny Bono (pronounced BOH-NOH) in 1962. They eventually became lovers which helped their careers. Their age difference made them a hit with the hippies.

Sonny and Cher knew how to tap into the hippie conscious by naming their 1965 debut album "Look at Us." This included "I Got You, Babe", which was a hit because it reflected the hippie attitudes toward possesions. The group even popularized bellbottoms, which was a big part of the hippies plan to show contempt to American fashion.

Later in the sixties the duo tried their luck at movies. Good Times were their first movie, but without Jimmy Walker it bombed. Their next attempt was Chastity, which bombed when word of mouth spread that the title wasn't meant to be ironic.

In the early seventies when hippies were tiring of the early hippy movement and turning to more forceful messages of peace and love, Sonny and Cher were forced to get a television show. Their show was the hundreth variety show released during the decade and was a hit, thanks partially to Cher's nose. The show was popular because people enjoyed watching Sonny and Cher trade insults with each other, but this led to their eventually seperation. Because of this, Cher decided to take the rest of the decade off.

Cher decided that she was too good for music in the eighties, so she tried acting again. She played parts in movies and broadway until 1987, when she starred in "Suspect", "The Witches of Eastwick", and "Moonstruck." The Academy Awards gave her an Oscar to keep her from starring in too many movies. (However, there is no truth to the rumor that Marisa Tomei was in anyway involved.)

Cher was able to become a popular singer again around this time. She was able to hang out with Beavis and Butthead. She even proved that her tastes in fashion hadn't changed when she starred in the music video for "If I Could Turn Back Time."

In the 2000s, Cher took her hit song "Do You Believe?" on tour. The gimmick is to add another "Do you Believe?" to the song everytime she sings it. She later had her farewell tour, which lasted from 2002-2005. It took this long because she wanted to say goodbye in alphabetical order.

Since Cher adopted the hippy persona for a while, it's a fact that while she claimed that she wanted to help the world, all she did was smell bad and smoked pot. Still, she was right about Letterman.