cher

[daisy]

black rose with black lips
don't try to close a rose

cher biography
vulnerable on screen in thoughtful, grown-up movies;
tough on the concert stage and in the news
with her outspoken candor,
cher was now lording over completely separate careers
as no one in hollywood ever had.
the ultimate validation came in april 1988:
a best actress oscar for moonstruck.
at 41 - after twenty five years in show biz - cher was at last on top, on her own terms.

she churned out eight smash singles during the geffen era ('87-'92), including "i found someone," "if i could turn back time," "after all," and "heart of stone." but the productivity took a heavy toll. by the time her next movie, mermaids, was released in 1990, she was exhausted and still faced months of tour commitments. she was near collapse when
she left the road in 1991.

as a respite from that grueling schedule, she began work that was less taxing. already a spokesperson for fitness centers, her own fitness videos and equal sweetener, it was a short leap to infomercials, where the money was great and the short hours suited her fatigue.
hollywood was aghast at cher's hair-care ads and disdained her new home furnishings business as well; knocked by late-night comics and dumped from the a-list, cher had now squandered the elite status she worked so hard to achieve.
after early-'90s cameos in the robert altman films ready to wear and the player, she went back to work full time in 1996, co-starring with chazz palminteri in the so-so faithful; directing anne heche and acting in hbo's critically acclaimed if these walls could talk; and singing again on a sultry new album,
it's a man's world
www.justplaincher.net/bio.html

[daisy]

it is a mans world
yeah that is america for you men robbing women and
men building fences around women and
keeping women down

as usual in america
sonny ended up with most of the money from sonny and cher and cher ended up with the kids and the bills
having to start all over again and
having to working herself into fatigue

[daisy]

it is a shame that someone with such a great singing voice like cher would have to struggle so hard
cher got back on her feet again and bought a condo
yet sometimes condos are not forever
download free cher song
easy to be hard
www.justplaincher.net/stream/easy.asf

[daisy]

in a world without dreams
things are no more than they seem
a world without heroes
is like a bird without wings
or a bell that never rings
just a sad and useless thing
cher lyrics
www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/singerAllSongs/E2A80557F7E99F3A4825699D00295512

[daisy]

from cher lyrics
to my ex
you say i'm the one
you've been searching for
but for myself i would rather be more
than someone who only aspires
to forfeit your every desire
and nights i've been mad at you are few
now, all i am asking of you, is
don't come around tonight

[daisy]

i was the only black-haired white albino in a family of blonde-haired white albinos yet in the end all of our hair colors turned back into white albino as we aged.
cher was
the only black-haired member in a family of southern california blonds.
uh oh cher's mom was georgia, with irish, english, german and cherokee bloodlines
i am not sure because it is gettting harder to tell who's albino these days
i believe
cher could be a tall german/white albino with some armenia and cherokee pigmentations.
from this picture
her and her kids look like pigmented white albinos too me

i was living a life of seclusion
me too i am still living a life of seclusion
during the last few months, cher has been shaking up her world. she has put all of her real estate holdings -- a house and 1.3-acre spread in malibu, and another house on 7-plus acres in aspen --
on the market
uh oh me too
cher visits armenia
www.cilicia.com/armo_article_cherarmeniatrip.html

[daisy]

hour-long tv show 'dragnet' depicts armenians as savages
by harut sassounian publisher, california courier
the usa network re-broadcast on
july 5, 2003, a one-hour police drama called dragnet
which portrayed all armenians as vicious criminals.
while presenting the fictionalized version of a murder allegedly committed by two armenian individuals,
it impugned the good name of all armenians, not just the ones who committed the crime. it referred to armenians in general as gangsters and savages.
this episode originally aired on abc-tv on february 16, 2003
-- which was seen by 8 million americans and
countless millions more saw it during its second airing
in july 5, 2003
-- so far two opportunities to view these nasty depictions about armenians on national tv.
some may think that armenians are over-reacting to negative remarks being made about an armenian character in a tv show. that is not the case at all.
the armenian community would not have been so agitated had the show simply depicted a criminal with an armenian last name. after all, individuals from many other ethnic groups are regularly portrayed on the screen as murderers, burglars, rapists, and terrorists. what makes this case particularly egregious is that it defames the entire armenian nation, not just an individual of armenian background.

the show starts with los angeles police department detectives inspecting the corpse of a man with his throat slashed, lying in a pool of blood on mulholland drive in los angeles. a medical examiner explains that in order to inflict maximum pain on the victim, the killers had made a superficial cut on his throat, so he would bleed to death slowly. they had hit him over the head with a blunt object and had shot both of his knees.

while the victim is a non-armenian, the "brutal as hell" unknown killers, on the other hand, are immediately labeled by the detectives as "these savages, the armenians." the detectives then use a series of racist adjectives to describe armenians in general:

"slit throat, bullets to the knees. that's their mo
[modus operandi]. they came off the boat killing. ex-kgb, special forces, mercenaries. say they want something. you don't give it to them. they don't kill you. they kill your mother, father, son, daughter. then you get the message and you give them what they want armenians. why would holt [the victim] know those kind of gangsters?"

after a second murder, the detectives immediately conclude:
"déjà vu all over again.
slit throat. the armenian special. bullets in the knees."

when an acquaintance of the victim tells the detectives that the perpetrator may be a man by the name of "anatoly," detective friday immediately says, "who happens to be armenian, i bet!" he then adds, "the armenians had their own version of the hollywood ethic. it was not enough for them to succeed. everyone else had to die. one of the interesting things about police work is that killers often don't look the part. that was not the case with anatoly derian."

after surmising that derian was swindled out of his money by movie producers jesse ross and peter holt, one of the detective asks his colleague the following rhetorical question: "you're the armenians [sic]. you give jesse and holt all kinds of money. they spend the money. they can't get it back. what do you do?" the second detective answers matter-of-factly: "start cutting peoples' throats!"

after repeatedly referring to derian as "a lunatic armenian" and "an armenian gangster," the producers of the show, not content to have maligned the armenians enough, introduces derian's uncle, alex karpoyan, who owns a "high-end strip joint in van nuys." he is immediately identified as the killer of holt.

at the end of the show, the court verdicts are announced: "derian entered a plea of murder in the first degree. he was sentenced to a life term without parole." karpoyan was "convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to die by lethal injection. he is now on death row at the state penitentiary at san quentin."

the producers deliberately mislead the viewers into believing that the show is based on a true story. there is an announcement at the beginning of the show that states:
"the story is inspired by actual events.
the names have been changed to protect the innocent."
this statement is somewhat contradicted by another announcement made at the end of the show:
"all characters and events in the preceding story have been fictionalized to protect the innocent.
no actual person was depicted."
despite these confusing announcements,
the episode is presented like a documentary, leading the viewers to believe that the characters and the events are authentic. it leaves the clear impression that armenians are vicious people.

this racist show has already been broadcast twice on network television. immediate steps must be taken not to allow its further showing in this country and its syndication overseas. here are some suggestions as to the actions that could be taken against those responsible for this horrible show:
the lion's share of the blame goes to the writer of the show, robert port. the creative artists agency describes him as a "deputy in the los angeles county sheriff's department."
it appears that port and/or his agency have misrepresented his employment.
the los angeles sheriff's department confirmed to the writer of this column that port was simply a reserve deputy, which means that he works there only a few hours a month.
why did port write such a viciously anti-armenian script?
how could a "reserve deputy sheriff" who apparently holds such racist attitudes towards armenians work as a law enforcement officer in a diverse multi-ethnic society?
the armenian community should ask l.a. county sheriff leroy baca to dismiss port from the sheriff's department and issue a letter of apology.

unless the producers of the show and those holding the rights for this episode agree to delete the defamatory language targeting all armenians, community organizations should consider filing a lawsuit seeking to ban this episode from being aired again.
source
www.tallarmeniantale.com/media-badarmens.htm

april 24th, 1915 armenian genocide
www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_Genocide