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Cher, Bette, Olivia, Goldie, Meryl and Robin Williams - concert special from 1990

I never came across this before. Does anyone remember this ? I don't remember this airing (was it on network TV or cable?). It's pretty entertaining.

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by Anonymousreply 12October 18, 2025 12:13 AM

Just watched the show - what a great concert (who knew Goldie could sing so well? Too bad she never did 'Chicago' with Liza back then). Sad to see Robin Williams and ONJ - both no longer with us. (ONJ still had two years to go before she got the cancer diagnosis that would reframe the next 30 years of her life). Great to see Cher, Lily, and Goldie with their original faces.

by Anonymousreply 1October 15, 2025 7:37 PM

Isn't this the Earth Day special?

by Anonymousreply 2October 15, 2025 7:39 PM

I don't remember it, but '90 was a tumultuous year.

by Anonymousreply 3October 15, 2025 7:44 PM

Friends of the Environment.

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by Anonymousreply 4October 15, 2025 7:50 PM

Meryl Streep has met everyone and seen it all. She’s beyond Hollywood royalty

by Anonymousreply 5October 15, 2025 7:50 PM

No dirt from Bruce Vilanchi.

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by Anonymousreply 6October 15, 2025 7:57 PM

Do you think Cher knew that the song "Fire Down Below" was done by drag queens in The Rose?

by Anonymousreply 7October 15, 2025 8:18 PM

Lily looks like she’s trying not to laugh when Goldie sings.

Where were Cher and Bette’s kids at the end? And why only one of Meryl’s?

Olivia looks like she’s trying came from teaching at Gymboree.

by Anonymousreply 8October 15, 2025 8:26 PM

Interesting where they all were at that time in their lives, and what the new decade (the 90s) would have in store for them...

Robin Williams had been a hit warming up the audience for the benefit concert for Streisand in her backyard a few years prior. I wondered if that's why they tapped him to do this 'outdoor benefit concert' as well ? And he had many more box office hits ahead of him at that point of his career.

Olivia Newton-John was one of the most successful pop acts of the previous decade, and her 1981 single 'Physical' had been awarded '#1 Song of the Decade' for the 80s. She was heading back to the recording studio soon to record a new album of dance / pop tunes once again for the 90s, until she got the devastating news about her cancer in the summer of 1992. That changed the path of her career and life for the next 30 years.

Meryl Streep had a stellar decade behind her at the box office, and had another hit movie with 'Postcards from the Edge'. She would try her hand at more comedic roles in the 90s, a departure from the many heavy dramas of the 80s, and have less box office success with most of them. In two more years, she'd team up with Hawn to film 'Death Becomes Her', one of her more successful turns at comedy.

Hawn wasn't as busy in the 90s as she was in the 70s and 80s, but she did have two big hits - 'Death Becomes Her' and 'First Wives Club', which she would star with Bette Midler. Most of her other films during the decade were ignored.

Midler also had a spectacular decade at the box office n the 80s, ending with 'Beaches'. Starting the 90s off, she would go on to do the forgettable 'Stella', 'For the Boys', and 'Scenes from a Mall' in the early part of the decade, and then have a hit in 1993 with 'Hocus Pocus'. Three years after, she'd have another hit with 'First Wives Club', Her recording / concert career proved more successful in the 90s.

Cher focused on movies in the 80s, proving to be a box office star, but fizzled out in the 90s with only two movies still somewhat memorable today ('Mermaids' and 'Tea With Musolini' to bookend the decade). She reignited her recording career in the late 80s, and continued a successful run as a recording artst and concert performer (like Midler) in the 90s.

by Anonymousreply 9October 15, 2025 8:52 PM

"ABC Broadcast" suggests perhaps it was an ABC broadcast, OP. As does a simple Google search.

Ever try one?

by Anonymousreply 10October 15, 2025 9:18 PM

Cher would have a huge career resurgence with the mega-hit "Believe" in 1998.

by Anonymousreply 11October 15, 2025 11:46 PM

Sorry Bruce Vilanchi but some of your material is cringeworthy.

by Anonymousreply 12October 18, 2025 12:13 AM
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