{"id":91923,"date":"2023-10-23T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T07:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91923"},"modified":"2023-10-23T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T07:04:13","slug":"cher-and-barbra-kibitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/10\/23\/cher-and-barbra-kibitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher and Barbra Kibitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cher<\/strong> recently did a few interviews about having two records drop in short succession.&nbsp; This quote amused me: \u201cMy life seems to be longer than any other human being ever.&nbsp; I feel like I should be in the <strong><em>Guinness Book of World Records <\/em><\/strong>for this. &nbsp;And I\u2019m still going!&nbsp; My great-aunts were 101 and 104.&nbsp; I never thought about getting this old and still having a job.\u201d&nbsp; And, \u201cI remember I had a conversation with <strong>Barbra Streisand <\/strong>once on a telethon we were doing.&nbsp; She leaned over and said, \u2018Cher, why are you still doing this?\u2019&nbsp; And I said, \u2018Because there\u2019s going to come a day where I can\u2019t do it.\u2019\u201d&nbsp; And I don\u2019t want to have thought that I could have done my art longer, and chose not to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So much to unpack here \u2013 starting with Barbra and Cher doing a telethon together.&nbsp; Were they answering phones?&nbsp; \u201cHello, this is Cher\u2026yes, that Cher!\u201d&nbsp; And you know Barbra wasn\u2019t touching strange phones.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ll coordinate\u201d, is how I believe it went.&nbsp; I definitely don\u2019t remember either of them sitting down with <em>Jerry\u2019s Kids<\/em>.&nbsp; Plus, the <strong><em>Jerry Lewis Telethon <\/em><\/strong>was <strong>Maureen McGovern<\/strong>\u2019s turf.&nbsp; Turns out the telethon in question was <strong><em>Hand in Hand<\/em><\/strong>, which helped victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma.&nbsp; And there really is a photo of Cher and Babs \u2013 with <strong>Billy Crystal <\/strong>between them.&nbsp; I found this amusing anecdote from the telethon in question.&nbsp; A cameraman said that Barbra came up to him before the event and asked him to only shoot her from her good side.&nbsp; He took a long look at her left profile, and then her right profile.&nbsp; He then asked, \u201cI\u2019m sorry \u2013 which side would that be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cher recently did a few interviews about having two records drop in short succession.&nbsp; This quote amused me: \u201cMy life seems to be longer than any other human being ever.&nbsp; I feel like I should be in the Guinness Book of World Records for this. &nbsp;And I\u2019m still going!&nbsp; My great-aunts were 101 and 104.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91924,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91923\/revisions\/91924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}