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SUMMARY:Author Annie Zaleski
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DESCRIPTION:Join us when author Annie Zaleski visits to discuss her latest
  book\, <i>I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher</i>..\nhttps://cuyahoga.l
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><em>About the author:</em></p>\n<p><strong
 >Annie Zaleski</strong>&nbsp\;is an award-winning writer and editor who&rs
 quo\;s contributed to NPR Music\,&nbsp\;<em>Salon</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Rolling
  Stone</em>\, and&nbsp\;<em>The Guardian</em>. She&rsquo\;s also the autho
 r of multiple books\, including an extensive look&nbsp\;at Duran Duran&rsq
 uo\;s&nbsp\;<em>Rio&nbsp\;</em>for Bloomsbury&rsquo\;s prestigious 33 1/3 
 series\, and biographies of pop stars Lady Gaga and P!nk. She interviewed 
 Cher ahead of her&nbsp\;2016 Las Vegas residency&nbsp\;and praised the ico
 n in a&nbsp\;career-spanning 2021&nbsp\;<em>Salon&nbsp\;</em>piece\; addit
 ionally\, she wrote about the intriguing backstory of Sonny &amp\; Cher's 
 &ldquo\;I Got You Babe&rdquo\; in Running Press&rsquo\;s forthcoming book&
 nbsp\;<em>We Found Love\, Song by Song</em>.<br /><br /></p>\n<p>Commemora
 ting six decades since her first #1 hit in 1965\,&nbsp\;<em><strong>I Got 
 You Babe</strong></em>&nbsp\;captures Cher&rsquo\;s one-of-a-kind life. Th
 is celebration of the fearless\, down-to-earth &ldquo\;Goddess of Pop&rdqu
 o\; explores key moments in her life and career in words and photos. Among
  the topics covered:&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her 50-year friendship with fel
 low diva Tina Turner\, which began in 1975 when they performed &ldquo\;Sha
 me\, Shame\, Shame&rdquo\; together.</li>\n<li>Her story of creating a &ld
 quo\;revenge dress&rdquo\; with designer Bob Mackie for the 1986 Oscars af
 ter being snubbed for a nomination for her performance in&nbsp\;Mask.</li>
 \n<li>The night in 1989 she made the Navy wish it could &ldquo\;Turn Back 
 Time&rdquo\; by arriving at the&nbsp\;USS Missouri&nbsp\;to film her video
  not wearing the coveralls they expected but a barely-there fishnet bodysu
 it.</li>\n<li>Cher&rsquo\;s unfiltered social media presence. From classic
  posts like &ldquo\;BREAKING NEWS: IM BEING BURIED IN MY FISHNETS&rdquo\; 
 to weighing in on issues she believes in.</li>\n<li>When Cher learned abou
 t Kaavan\, dubbed &ldquo\;the world&rsquo\;s loneliest elephant.&rdquo\; T
 he creature was kept in chains in a zoo in Pakistan and forced to perform 
 for decades. After fans brought the problem to her attention\, Cher eventu
 ally helped get him moved in 2021\, and her efforts were captured in a Smi
 thsonian documentary.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Amid these moments are photo after p
 hoto of some of the most eye-popping outfits ever worn in life and on stag
 e. As an avid clothes horse who wasn&rsquo\;t afraid to wear a see-through
  dress to the Met Gala in 1974\, Cher&rsquo\;s many looks will be given th
 eir due in this engaging\, career-spanning retrospective.<br /><br /><em><
 strong>Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Mac's 
 Backs - Books on Coventry.</strong></em></p>\nhttps://cuyahoga.libnet.info
 /event/12901828
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