Timur PANKOV
ALMATY, May 20 (THE GLOBE)
ABANDONED at age one by her father and raised by a mother who married eight times (three times to the same man), Cherilyn�s luck changed at eighteen when she wed diminutive record producer Sonny Bono. Small gigs as �Caesar and Cleo� led to larger gigs opening for the Righteous Brothers as �Sonny and Cher.� They struck gold in July of 1965 with �I Got You, Babe,� a record that would go on to sell four million copies. The modsters hit again with records like The Beat Goes On and a successful television variety show. When the guise of acerbic, exotic gazelle to Bono�s bonehead palled, both the marriage and the show were canceled. (Sonny had been on the skids until becoming a Republican politician, in 1988, and a congressman, in 1994). Cher maintained her flamboyant superstar status with a Top Ten hit; breast surgery; ABC specials; S&M outfits; marriage to an addict (Gregg Allman); and liaisons with actor Val Kilmer, Gene Simmons from Kiss, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora (now Mr. Heather Locklear) and a 24-year-old bagelmaker named Rob Camilletti.
In the �80s, Cher was suddenly an actress, and somehow, a good one. She played a dowdy lesbian (Silkwood), a hippie mom (Mask), and an Italian widow (Moonstruck) with equal facility. Such transformations earned the respect of critics, an Academy Award, and a Cannes prize. But subsequent beauty-product infomercials, Vegas acts, and a line of medieval-style home furnishings tarnished her Academy patina. Nothing if not surprising, Cher made her directorial bow with a 1996 segment of the HBO trilogy If These Walls Could Talk, and returned to the Top Ten with her 1998 album release, Believe.
Cher � American singer and actress. Recently she became very popular due to her song �Believe� from album with the same name.
A policeman pulled a car over and told the driver he had won $5,000 dollars in the seatbelt competition.
�What are you going to do with the money?� asked the policeman.
�Well, I guess I�m going to get a drivers license�, he answered.
�Oh, don�t listen to him,� said a woman in the passenger seat, �He�s a smart aleck when he�s drunk.�
Then the guy in the backseat said, �I knew we wouldn�t get far in a stolen car.�
At that moment there was a knock from the trunk and a voice said, �Are we over the border yet?�
21 may Andrei Sakharov was born, physicist: produced first Soviet atomic bomb, also hydrogen bomb; human rights activist: formulated concepts of perestroika and glasnost.
Writer, actor and top-model � what common do they have? It�s a birthday. 22 may 1859 was born Arthur Conan Doil, writer, one of his famous creating is Sherlock Holms. The same day in 1907 was born American actor Laurence Olivier and 1970 � top-model Naomi Campbell.
22 may 1849 Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock on this day. Mr. Lincoln later became the first U.S. President to receive a patent. Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit Moscow.
22 may 1986 Sylvester Stallone agreed to a 10-picture deal with United Artists. over a six-year period. He signed for a reported $15 million for each film. The deal made him the richest actor in Hollywood to that time. 24 may 1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge � linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, officially opened this day. The world�s longest suspension bridge is held together with 5,296 bound steel cables. The Brooklyn Bridge, designed by John A. Roebling, took 14 years to build. The span is 1,595 feet long, cost $16 million to construct. 21 may 1891 Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fought to a draw in San Francisco, CA. Nothing wrong with that except the boxing match went an unprecedented 61 rounds! No wonder it was a draw. The boxers couldn�t raise their arms anymore!
22 may 1856 Tretyak Gallery was founded. This day 1868 the masked Reno Gang pulled off the Great Train Robbery at Marshfield, IN this day. They hauled in $98,000 in loot.
22 may 1939 Italy and Germany signed agreement (Steel pact) referring military block in Europe. This was one of the first steps to proceed to beginning of World War Two.
May, 21
The Kazakh Concert Hall. The �Traviata� opera. 6.00. p.m.
The Kosteyev State National Museum. Exhibition of the works of S. Kalmykov, I. Itkind, V. Eifert, and Rudolf Nuriev�s painting.
From 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Closed on Monday.
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