salon.com – By Mary Elizabeth Williams
As she publicly wrestles with Chaz’s gender reassignment, the American icon continues to inspire
Thank God for Cher. The woman ranks right up there with the cotton gin and baseball on the list of greatest things America ever invented. We still have to wait a week for her promisingly campy “Burlesque,” but she’s already doing the publicity rounds to promote it — and reminding us that she’s not just an icon, she’s an occasionally awkward, struggling-to-get-it-right mother of a transgendered child.