“Every year I gather and shed,” says the movie star known as Cher, who was born Cherilyn Sarkisian forty-one years ago. “I feel like a snake, or a tree, because I’m always shedding stuff that either ...

Six decades ago, legendary editor Helen Gurley Brown took a stuffy literary magazine and transformed it into an audacious cultural tome. Cosmopolitan has kept evolving since, leading conversations ...