Virginia Blackburn
IT IS hard to know whether to laugh or cry when confronted by the 70-something Cher and her nipple tassels at the Billboard Music Awards. Heavens to Betsy. I am all for the empowerment of older women but to style yourself on a Las Vegas stripper when you’re in your eighth decade? And, presumably, to be signalling to the world that this is a look to aspire to? Cher is one of the great survivors and as such an inspiration to women everywhere. But this?
Cher, Cher, do you really think you’re doing much for the cause of womanhood? Of course Cher, like Madonna, is a showgirl. Both of them learned several decades before many of their fans were born that if you want to garner an awful