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Sept 10, 2004 8:26:40 GMT -5
Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Sept 10, 2004 8:26:40 GMT -5
Jan, I can get a banner hosted for you if you need it. Let me know, Susan
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Sept 1, 2004 13:02:05 GMT -5
Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Sept 1, 2004 13:02:05 GMT -5
You are Welcome
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Aug 29, 2004 22:02:49 GMT -5
Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Aug 29, 2004 22:02:49 GMT -5
Send me the banner and I will host it and send you the link Susan
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Aug 22, 2004 17:42:56 GMT -5
I'm heading out again in a few minutes, but chat away! We will have to schedule chats more often (Good idea, Lisa!) I will get a time schedule so we can post the times for internationals Susan
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Aug 22, 2004 17:39:26 GMT -5
I was shopping. Didn't really buy anything. The Mall doesn't have single handsome intelligent guys either. Of course they wern't advertised in the weekly flier, so what did I expect? Those ads are not cooperating. I would get rid of them, but the ads are what get us the board for free. ;D At least we don't have any of those " devil, take over everyones computer " ads that ezboard has sometimes! Susan
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Aug 20, 2004 7:36:23 GMT -5
From everything I have ever heard she is usually gone from the arena before Believe is done playing. While some people have met her, there is usually a promotion behind it, or the person met her through a "make a wish" type of thing. I recently saw a guy's story online about meeting Cher. In the story he mentions nothing of being Ill, but I know for a fact that he was, and that is how he met Cher. I have read a few "bumped into Cher after the show" stories that just do not make sense. I believe the girls account of it happening in Russia, but these stories of meeting Cher hand "hanging out" with her are a little over the top. I know I am no help, but enjoy the concert! Don't get so preoccupied with trying to meet her that you miss out on enjoying the concert! Susan:)
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Sept 15, 2004 11:28:51 GMT -5
Look at the Handsome Guys ads!
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Aug 19, 2004 22:28:18 GMT -5
Good Idea, Lisa! Handsome hunky Intelligent single guys! There see if that helps Susan:)
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Aug 18, 2004 18:00:51 GMT -5
Glad you like the idea, Julie. And for the record the occasional OT posts do not bother me. I just figured this would be a nice addition. Susan:)
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Aug 18, 2004 17:36:03 GMT -5
Hey Guys, Since so many of us know each other and enjoy each others company in general I created this board for WAY off topic subjects This is so we can talk about things that are REALLY difficult to connect to Cher, like gardening, or a movie we saw that isn't related to Cher. Don't waste time worrying about where to put a post. This is just for stuff people normally wouldn't bring up at the main Cher Connection board. Susan:)
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Feb 24, 2008 12:44:00 GMT -5
I have lost a lot of respect for Oprah. She endorsed a candidate that has nothing more than a "Jim Jones Carisma"* and it's freightening. It scares me that so many people are buying the hype of this man. *Jim Jones - Carismatic Religious leader who led is followers into a mass suicide see link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Feb 24, 2008 4:25:14 GMT -5
Hey guys,
I know Cher has endorsed Hillary, and wanted to post this link to donate to her campaign for anyone who wants to do so.
The link is from Hillary's official site. I am a member there and was given this link to use in email, etc.
DONATE TO HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT TODAY! contribute.hillaryclinton.com/form.html?sc=ac0&rc=NTFQ
As a Cher Fan site I feel that Cher Connection endorsing Hillary is the only proper thing to do! ;D
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Feb 13, 2008 0:25:32 GMT -5
Done :-)
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SUSAN
Feb 13, 2008 0:21:30 GMT -5
Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Feb 13, 2008 0:21:30 GMT -5
Sorry all, I have definitely been a slacker here. Those 12 hour work days tend to put a damper on internet time! Liz, I have a post which answers a lot of your questions. I will look for it. It was a very factual account of things and was written while the details were still very fresh. That would be better than me trying to recount stuff. There is also a huge thread on here that will give you insite as well!
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Jan 2, 2008 22:03:00 GMT -5
We Miss Ya!
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Jul 10, 2007 1:55:40 GMT -5
well if a petition don't mean nothing to anyone then why do people still make and sign petitions? Petitions do mean something when trying to change minds, but in this case Ceasar's is well aware of the drawing power of booking Cher and Cher is well aware of how many fans she has. Do we even know why Cher was not already announced? There may be circumstances that are of a personal nature and have nothing to do with an actual booking decision.
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Jun 23, 2007 21:48:40 GMT -5
This is such sad news. Thanks for the email on this Jan. As I told Jan I was actually in Hershey when I got her email via my phone. I just got home today (was in Pittsburgh after Hershey) which is why I did not get anything up on the front page until tonight. Susan
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Apr 25, 2007 22:45:13 GMT -5
Thanks all! Happy Birthday Sheri! Hope your day was great! Susan ;D
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Apr 24, 2007 19:25:04 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Jan!!! A card is on the way from me but probably didn't actually go out until yesterday morning so I doubt you got it today! Hope you are having a great day! Remember no calories in Chocolate, Cake Or Ice Cream today! Susan
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Feb 28, 2007 0:08:48 GMT -5
It seems like everyone is just waiting for the first Vegas news.
I'm really kind of suprised Cher didn't appear in a movie during the concert hiatus.
Susan
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Feb 13, 2007 0:21:29 GMT -5
This is from Jan, who asked me to repost it here for you! Happy Birthday Chels:) Rocked partying along w/ya at all the recent Cher tour(s)..You're such a blast..and diehard fan! ENJOY! Hope it's cheriffic like u! Jan Let me add my own HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Too
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Feb 13, 2007 0:26:10 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your loss Lisa.
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Feb 13, 2007 0:24:43 GMT -5
Sorry I'm late with this! Happy Birthday Dee!
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Dec 24, 2006 1:32:22 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Michael! #star#
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Nov 21, 2006 12:14:06 GMT -5
Update from the Associated Press:
Film director Robert Altman dies By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer
Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday. He was 81.
The director died Monday night, Joshua Astrachan, a producer at Altman's Sandcastle 5 Productions in New York City, told The Associated Press.
The cause of death wasn't disclosed. A news release was expected later in the day, Astrachan said.
A five-time Academy Award nominee for best director, most recently for 2001's "Gosford Park," he finally won a lifetime achievement Oscar in 2006.
"No other filmmaker has gotten a better shake than I have," Altman said while accepting the award. "I'm very fortunate in my career. I've never had to direct a film I didn't choose or develop. My love for filmmaking has given me an entree to the world and to the human condition."
Altman had one of the most distinctive styles among modern filmmakers. He often employed huge ensemble casts, encouraged improvisation and overlapping dialogue and filmed scenes in long tracking shots that would flit from character to character.
Perpetually in and out of favor with audiences and critics, Altman worked ceaselessly since his anti-war black comedy "M-A-S-H" established his reputation in 1970, but he would go for years at a time directing obscure movies before roaring back with a hit.
After a string of commercial duds including "The Gingerbread Man" in 1998, "Cookie's Fortune" in 1999 and "Dr. T & the Women" in 2000, Altman took his all-American cynicism to Britain for 2001's "Gosford Park."
A combination murder-mystery and class-war satire set among snobbish socialites and their servants on an English estate in the 1930s, "Gosford Park" was Altman's biggest box-office success since "M-A-S-H."
Besides best-director, "Gosford Park" earned six other Oscar nominations, including best picture and best supporting actress for both Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith. It won the original-screenplay Oscar, and Altman took the best-director prize at the Golden Globes for "Gosford Park."
Altman's other best-director Oscar nominations came for "M-A-S-H," the country-music saga "Nashville" from 1975, the movie-business satire "The Player" from 1992 and the ensemble character study "Short Cuts" from 1993. He also earned a best-picture nomination as producer of "Nashville."
No director ever got more best-director nominations without winning a regular Oscar, though four other men — Alfred Hitchthingy, Martin Scorsese, Clarence Brown and King Vidor — tied with Altman at five.
In May, Altman brought out "A Prairie Home Companion," with Garrison Keillor starring as the announcer of a folksy musical show — with the same name as Keillor's own long-running show — about to be shut down by new owners. Among those in the cast were Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Kline, Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones.
"This film is about death," Altman said at a May 3 news conference in St. Paul, Minn., also attended by Keillor and many of the movie's stars.
He often took on Hollywood genres with a revisionist's eye, de-romanticizing the Western hero in 1971's "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" and 1976's "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson," the film-noir gumshoe in 1973's "The Long Goodbye" and outlaw gangsters in "Thieves Like Us."
"M-A-S-H" was Altman's first big success after years of directing television, commercials, industrial films and generally unremarkable feature films. The film starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould was set during the Korean War but was Altman's thinly veiled attack on U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
"That was my intention entirely. If you look at that film, there's no mention of what war it is," Altman said in an Associated Press interview in 2001, adding that the studio made him put a disclaimer at the beginning to identify the setting as Korea.
"Our mandate was bad taste. If anybody had a joke in the worst taste, it had a better chance of getting into the film, because nothing was in worse taste than that war itself," Altman said.
The film spawned the long-running TV sitcom starring Alan Alda, a show Altman would refer to with distaste as "that series." Unlike the social message of the film, the series was prompted by greed, Altman said.
"They made millions and millions of dollars by bringing an Asian war into Americans' homes every Sunday night," Altman said in 2001. "I thought that was the worst taste."
Altman never minced words about reproaching Hollywood. After the Sept. 11 attacks, he said Hollywood served as a source of inspiration for the terrorists by making violent action movies that amounted to training films for such attacks.
"Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that unless they'd seen it in a movie," Altman said.
Altman was written off repeatedly by the Hollywood establishment, and his reputation for arrogance and hard drinking — a habit he eventually gave up — hindered his efforts to raise money for his idiosyncratic films.
While critical of studio executives, Altman held actors in the highest esteem. He joked that on "Gosford Park," he was there mainly to turn the lights on and off for the performers.
The respect was mutual. Top-name actors would clamor for even bit parts in his films. Altman generally worked on shoestring budgets, yet he continually landed marquee performers who signed on for a fraction of their normal salaries.
After the mid-1970s, the quality of Altman's films became increasingly erratic. His 1980 musical "Popeye," with Robin Williams, was trashed by critics, and Altman took some time off from film.
He directed the Broadway production of "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean," following it with a movie adaptation in 1982. Altman went back and forth from TV to theatrical films over the next decade, but even when his films earned critical praise, such as 1990's "Vincent & Theo," they remained largely unseen.
"The Player" and "Short Cuts" re-established Altman's reputation and commercial viability. But other 1990s films — including his fashion-industry farce "Ready to Wear" and "Kansas City," his reverie on the 1930s jazz and gangster scene of his hometown — fell flat.
Born Feb. 20, 1925, Altman hung out in his teen years at the jazz clubs of Kansas City, Mo., where his father was an insurance salesman.
Altman was a bomber pilot in World War II and studied engineering at the University of Missouri in Columbia before taking a job making industrial films in Kansas City. He moved into feature films with "The Delinquents" in 1957, then worked largely in television through the mid 1960s, directing episodes of such series as "Bonanza" and "Alfred Hitchthingy Presents."
Altman and his wife, Kathryn, had two sons, Robert and Matthew, and he had a daughter, Christine, and two other sons, Michael and Stephen, from two previous marriages.
When he received his honorary Oscar in 2006, Altman revealed he had a heart transplant a decade earlier.
"I didn't make a big secret out of it, but I thought nobody would hire me again," he said after the ceremony. "You know, there's such a stigma about heart transplants, and there's a lot of us out there."
Associated Press writer Jeff Baenen in St. Paul, Minn., contributed to this report.
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Nov 21, 2006 11:58:46 GMT -5
This just hit the wires: LOS ANGELES - Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "MASH," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday. He was 81.
The director died Monday night, Joshua Astrachan, a producer at Altman's Sandcastle 5 Productions in New York City, told The Associated Press.
The cause of death wasn't disclosed. A news release was expected later in the day, Astrachan
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Nov 21, 2006 0:44:13 GMT -5
From The New York Daily News: Cher had 5,000 DVDs of "The Ground Truth: After the Killings" made, but unless American soldiers are on her mailing list, they're not getting to see it. Army, Navy and Marine Corps base officers have refused to show the documentary, about difficulties Iraq War vets have after they return home, according to director Patricia Foulkrod. "It's hard for them to reconnect to their families," Foulkrod told us. "They've been in a very dramatic situation. The adjustment is so difficult. They come back and are offered only minimum wage. We spent so much money on the war, the government didn't really set aside the proper money to take care of these guys when they get back." During one phone pitch to a Colorado base, a commanding officer told a Focus Features distribution exec that the content of the film was "inappropriate" and would be "detrimental" to the servicemen and their families.
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Nov 21, 2006 0:39:57 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Nov 21, 2006 0:36:53 GMT -5
Happy Belated Birthday!
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Post by Susanelizabeth28 on Nov 15, 2006 11:44:08 GMT -5
Sad to hear this.
Here is a story from the Associated Press: (11-14) 22:52 PST Montebello, Calif. (AP) --
Francais "Rusty" Tullis, who was portrayed by Cher in the movie "Mask" as the troubled mother of a boy with a disfigured face, has died. She was 70.
Tullis died Saturday at Beverly Hospital in Montebello nearly a month after being seriously injured in a motorcycle accident, her niece, Helen Cunningham, told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune in Tuesday's editions.
"She had a hard life, harder than others," Cunningham said.
Tullis was the mother of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, who was born with a disease that deformed his face and skull. He died in 1978 at 16.
The 1985 movie "Mask" was based on his life, with Cher portraying Tullis, then known as Rusty Dennis, as his unstable yet loving mother.
Much like her movie character, Tullis was an avid motorcyclist who had brushes with the law.
"She was real tough," Cunningham said. "It is hard to explain her life."
In 1999, Tullis pleaded no contest to possessing methamphetamine. Two years later, she was placed on threes years probation for drug possession.
Besides her niece, Tullis is survived by sisters Dorothy Stuart and Bonnie Meeker. ___ Information from: San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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