The actress Cher, Mr. Bono's second wife, dabbed tears and remembered their time together.
"It's not like living next door to Cher," Mr. Coyne said.
When he used biographical teasers to introduce songs ("a high school dropout and a runaway, with a mother who was married six times — coming up," referring to Cher), Mr. Kasem echoed Paul Harvey on his folksy, long-running news broadcasts.
As portrayed in his semi-fictional 1999 film, "Tea With Mussolini," starring Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Cher, Mr. Zeffirelli, born in 1923, was the product of an out-of-wedlock liaison.
The one-time Mr Cher was elected Mayor of Palm Springs, California in 1988, and was a Republican senator from 1994 until his death.
Stacey Dash plays the heroine's best friend, Dionne; Brittany Murphy is the dowdy new girl at school who's ripe for a beauty-fashion makeover; and Paul Rudd is the disapproving but devastatingly handsome stepbrother, Cher's own mr. Knightley - Tuesday at 9 p.m. on USA.
But before he turned his attention to the dysfunctional dynamics of world affairs, even before Cher slapped Mr. Cage 17 years ago, Mr. Shanley wrote "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," the play that brought him to theatergoers' attention in 1984.
Thank you very much Mrs Cher.
"Merci, cher Philippe," Mr. Holbrooke said, before switching to English.
"Don't go for Cher hair," Mr. Lee of Kenneth's said.
(At one point Cher told Mr. Cooper how much she liked MSNBC and he actually fell on the floor, feigning his own death).
