Linda Stasi
Dear Mom, Love CherMonday night at 10 on Lifetime
There are three striking things in "Dear Mom, Love Cher," the singer's Lifetime documentary tribute to her mom, Georgia Holt.
The first is how incredibly gorgeous Holt is.
The second is that although Holt is now 86 she still looks 50.
But it's the third that remains the most bizarre. Why in hell did it take Cher five decades to help her mother launch her lifelong dream of a singing career?
The six-times married Holt was born into Depression-era Arkansas poverty.
Her grandfather — a rail road dynamiter — accidentally blew himself up when she was a kid.
DUET: Georgia Holt and daughter Cher
But not until after Holt hitchhiked with her father to California as a little girl, where she sang in saloons.
She dreamed that one day she'd become a famous singer and movie star.
The saloon singing brought in so much money that the little girl's pockets sagged from all the change. But the movie star thing never quite happened — despite her remarkable beauty.
For one thing, she married very young — and for apparently no reason. Certainly not for love, since she never liked her first husband, John Sarkisian (Cher's father).
In fact Holt tells us she contemplated divorce the day after the nuptials.
She hung on for a few months, got pregnant (with Cher), went to an abortionist with her mother to terminate that pregnancy, but chickened out.
It got worse. A short time later she was beat out for a big movie part by an unknown blond, Marilyn Monore.
In the documentary, Holt, Cher and her sister, Georganne LaPiere Bartylak, Cher's children, Chaz Bono and Elijah Blue, as well as Holt's long-time guy, Craig Spencer (21 years younger than Georgia) do all the talking.
Despite being loving and sweet, the documentary feels four decades too late and a million dollars short if Cher was really serious about why she made this movie — to help Holt achieve her life-long dream of a singing career.
Cher says she recently found in some garage the original tapes of an album that her mother cut 30 years ago — and discovered that she and Cher have identical voices. She's had them remastered for release.
Turns out that when the album was cut decades back, Spencer advised Holt not to sign the five-year contract that was offered. No album and no career.
Why she'd listen to him when her daughter — by then, a giant star — could have stepped in and made this happen for her is never explained.
It's a loving tribute, and eye opening at times — especially when they talk about Cher moving in with the much-older Sonny when she was a 17-year old high school drop-out.
Holt says she wanted to have him arrested.
Still, like all self-produced biographies, the nasty bits are glossed over. The rough patches of Holt's life are made to seem like minor inconveniences and not life-altering events.
Why? Because history gets to be written by life's winners.
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