and i thought surely sonny bono would understand that, but he didn't. and he said a pretty, um, obtuse remark, actually, about the n.e.a. he said, "i never knew anybody who received an n.e.a. grant," ergo it wasn't important. that was just silly. he didn't get around much. well, in other cases, you had people who were champions that i think most americans wouldn't think of immediately when they're thinking about, sort of, heroes of free expression. possibly the least offensive musician in america, kenny g., steps up and takes a stand for the n.e.a. can you talk a little bit about that? oh, i loved it when some of the musicians came to the hill to advocate for the national endowment for the arts. and kenny g. went to a congressman who said, "well, you know, i do believe in the arts, but i'm just not going to vote for the n.e.a." and kenny looked right at him and said, "well, that's not very courageous, is it?" it's terrific. i have to believe that taking the job on at the national endowment for the arts required a couple of strong personality traits. one

hazard actually had a public policy career sonny bono had been better mayor so the difference is trump is famous for being trump as was pointed out his his real business ak human brain being the trump name and somehow implying that you know you put gold letters up on a building and it says trump there is some kind of cheesy parnassus there that's the difference he's only payments for being famous so he's other pows were at least leveraging that fame into something else so cliff if he did run he could have paris hilton is v.p. right i mean that then you would really rap and say. that's what. i mean the treasury secretary i'm sorry go ahead we've got charlie sheen you came card actually in for treasury secretary i mean no i mean i i want to answer the serious point which is being that these days politics has be so much around name recognition and money that it's inevitable especially with entertainment and political media becoming one in the same it's inevitable to go this direction and what was just pointed out was very astute and exactly right on which is at least most of these other g

i'm fascinated to know what you think sonny bono would have made of this.de it clear that sonny was more tolerant when he said he was going to be a lesbian than his mother was. would it be right to assume he would have been equally tolerant by this turn of events? >> it's so hard to guess how sonny would have felt about this, you know, any more than anything else. he's been gone 13 years. t it's hard to second guess him. my hunch is that he would have been frustrated or scared or worried. you know, all of the fears you have about this but eventually he would have come around and done what you do. that is you love your family and you do your best to help them through whatever they are going through. i know that sonny loved chaz with every bone in his body. i believe that he would have loved him no matter what. i don't believe that would have changed. >> it would be fair to say that your support for what is happening here wouldn't be massively popular with the republican party that you represent. is that an unfair thing of me to observe? >> oh, you know, this

a couple of months after that, my resolved friend sonny bono who was a gracious guy, got killed in a skiing accident. i have to say a word. i loved him. we became fast friends. he knew my background. he loved it. he had a similar story. in fact, i remember sitting with him one night on the floor of representatives. sonny, it was about two or three, i'm trying to fall asleep. we were there for meaningless series. sonny couldn't get enough. he was just in awe of the institution. he demonstrated more of it than maybe i should have. i'm falling asleep next to him. can you believe? look at this. lincoln served here. yeah, lincoln served here. and webster, daniel webster served here. yeah, webster. john f. kennedy and all of these people. i guess i'm blowing him off. he elbows me and said you ought to be ashamed of yourself. look at you. you used to be a bartender on the sunset trip. he said, i used to drive a meat truck on the sunset strip. here, members of congress. looking around. and he said, did you ever -- did you ever just stop and wonder how we ever got here? by this time, i'd have

in the case of chaz bono, famously born chasety, daughter of sonny and cher, it meant feel like a boypped in a girl's body. mentally male, physically female. imagine, he says, waking up feeling just as you do right now but in the body of the opposite gender. what would you do? 40 years in the making, chaz bono made the most radical change of all. i spoke with him for tonight's "nightline" interview. >> and here's our own very special guest. >> tonight and every night. >> our little girl, chastity. say tonight. now's the time. >> good night, everybody, god bless you. >> this is the person the world remembers, a little blonde girl in her famous parent's arms. ♪ babe >> i can't tell you how many people throughout my life have said to me or wrote to me or whatever when i was a kid, i wished i was you. >> did we know what we were saying? >> no, i don't think so. i would say very little up top. >> this is chaz as he's always seen himself, unquestionably, undeniably, male. you have changed a lot in the last year and a half since i saw you last. >> i know. >> your voice is much deeper. >> it

sonny and cher. when did it fully occur to you, i'm in the wrong body? >> oprah's world exclusive with chaz bono. oprah: how did you tell your chaz bono. oprah: how did you tell your mom? >>> welcome back to beyond the headlines. today we're talking about breast cancer. in 2009 a ten-year-old california girl received national attention as she became the youngest person ever in america to face the difficult fight against breast cancer. she had an extremely rare adult form of breast cancer. she had her first chemo treatment in 2009. she knew it would make her hair fall off so she had her hair shaved off in front of family and friends. >> she stood up after we talked. >> as a show of solidarity. the family also shaved their heads. as of october 2009, tests show her cancer was no longer detectable. janice barlow joins us. and you've work where there are highest rates of breast cancer in the country? >> they do. and the incidence rates of breast cancer to be significantly high. unless the bay area. the statistics that came out in 2008, among women, non-hispanic white women, 146 women per 100,000 were

sonny and cher. when did it fully occur to you, i'm in the wrong body? >> oprah's world exclusive with chaz bono. oprah: how did you tell your chaz bono. oprah: how did you tell your mom? marcy: ok, romantic garden? bree: oh, is there a castle nearby? marcy: no, but there's a charming farmhouse. bree: right next to my posh castle! i'm sensing a theme here. well, i am the queen, dear sister. >>> today at 3:00, how your computer may be making you sick and the video game that let's i hunt down osama bin laden. then at 4:00, one time star of sonny and cher. >> and compound in a popular herb found to be effective in the fight against breast cancer. those stories later today. >> it's nice to be outside and it should be a little bitter better tomorrow but a lot of sunshine as we look from mount tam. what you don't see yet is the showers developing over the north bay mountains. that he will be scattered and rat light and probably a couple hundredth of an inch of rain. you probably won't need the umbrella. >> and snow in tahoe. weather is interesting. >> and more for them this weekend, too. >> have a grea

sonny and cher. when did it fully occur to you, i'm in the wrong body? >> oprah's world exclusive with chaz bono. oprah: how did you tell your chaz bono. oprah: how did you tell your mom? >>> search teams in a remote section of northern nevada spent i day looking for a man. they found his wife on friday. rita was inside her van when rescuers spotted her on a national forest logging road. she says she hasn't seen her husband on foot a few days after they got stuck. family says rita survived on bottled water and trail mix. >> she is relatively good condition. she is coherent and speaking with my nephew. >> doctors say she is doing better and been able to eat meals. >> pg&e will begin pressure testing tomorrow stag in mountain view and antioch. testing is done by filling a section of pipe with water and then pressurizing it at a much higher level than the pipe would ever operate with natural gas inside of it. the pipeline is monitored for eight hours, any section that show weaknesses will be replaced immediately. residents might smell natural gas? the pipeline ruptured in san bruno that killed eight

sonny and cher. when did it fully occur to you, i'm in the wrong body? >> oprah's world exclusive with chaz bono. oprah: how did you tell your chaz bono. >>> take a look at this. today's high winds may have been partly responsible for uprooting a 40-foot tree in san francisco's park. it took out a light pole and damaged a few cars this afternoon. fire and police crews were called to the scene. no one was hurt. >>> california won't have a drought this summer because of all the snow that fell on the sierras this winter. but it will make swimming and river rafting a lot more dangerous. this year's snow pack measured 144% greater than normal. all that snow started melting, swelling mountain streams and rivers with plenty of water, which means the water will run faster and it will be colder than it has been in recent drought years. >>> all right. frances in for lee. it is windy out there. >> it's windy and we might even get a little bit more water tomorrow, believe it or not. there is a slight chance there is showers. but nothing to worry about too much. we'll go outside and show you how it looks righ

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sonny and cher. when did it fully occur to you, i'm in the wrong body? >> oprah's world exclusive with chaz bono.ah: how did you tell your mom? >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> welcome back. it is 9:18. as you can see from the clock on the ferry building. this is live look from roof cam hd. you do see the gusty winds blowing those flags there. happy mother's day everyone. kisses, hugs, maybe breakfast in bed for you this morning. thanks for waking up and spending part of this special day with us. >>> it is time to feed hungry people here in the bay area by simply leaving something for your mail carrier to pick up next saturday. they launched the annual stamp out hunger campaign yesterday. you see congresswoman jackie speier joining postal employees for a kickoff rally in san francisco. next saturday you can leave non-perishable items near your mailbox and the postal service will pick them up and deliver them to local food banks and other charities. great idea that they started some years back. mother's day, good tradition. lisa argen is here to tell you what the fore

sonny and cher. when did it fully occur to you, i'm in the wrong body? >> oprah's world exclusive with chaz bono.how did you tell your chaz bono. oprah: how did you tell your mom? ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny >>> okay, big news in the world of music and these music shows. paula abdul returning to sort of a music tryout show. she was famous on "american idol." she's now been cast as one of the judges on simon cowell's new "x-factor." >> very cool. and i wonder how much she is pulling in for that. >> quite a bit i would imagine. >> i would imagine, too. it has come to pass so you'll be seeing more of paula and all of her crazy commentary which was pretty crazy. >> it was crazy at times. sort of aloof. >> sort of bizarre and really not grounded but that's okay. that's why we like her. >>> speaking of crazy, guess who going to wisteria lane and joining the cast of "desperate housewives"? >> you? >> no. susan lucci is heading over to wisteria lane which means she is going to be commuting over to los angeles which is interesting. so far she has a contract with abc and everyone is saying going to be joining as

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>>> now, chaz bono the samous child of celebrity superstars sonny and cher was born chastity.ways knew he was. we're going to have a discussion. he's live here in the studio. first, a look back. >> god bless you. >> reporter: chaz grew up in the spotlight, the only child of the first couple of pop, sonny and cher. ♪ babe i got you babe ♪ >> reporter: for years, the little girl known as chastity was fighting a demon within. for n a new book called "transition," chaz talks about confusion. playing with knives. his mother, glam queen, cher was horrified. >> my mom has her first child. and has the kind of expectations that any mother would have of their first born daughter. >> reporter: as a teenager chaz came out, embraced a lesbian lifestyle. but something was missing. >> going in one way. and coming out another. >> reporter: in a revealing documentary, airing tonight on own, on the outside, chastity bono was a woman. on the inside she was most definitely a man. >> i want you to get it in the right spot. >> reporter: after thinking long and hard chaz underwent the surgery to bec

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