Cher, An Elephant, And The Power Of Celebrity
Cher with elephant Kaavan. Image: Zoobs Ansari/Smithsonian Channel Cher felt powerless. This is not an admission you expect from a woman who has been a superstar since the mid-1960s, with 100 million records sold and 3.9 million Twitter followers. But when the pop star got involved in helping save an elephant stuck in a zoo in Islamabad under terrible conditions, Cher also had to fight an uncomfortable feeling. "I kept saying to all my friends, 'I'm just an entertainer, I'm just an entertainer,'" Cher says now, as the streaming service Paramount+ debuts the documentary Cher & the Loneliest E...