One last tribute must be paid to the Colosseum's new goddess. Any sixtysomething who can wear flesh-colored body stockings, even with the hint of a corset beneath, is truly supernatural.

"Do you know what it's like to kneel down when you're 62?" Cher joked after someone threw a sailor hat onstage -- a reference to her sexiest video, in which she entertained some troops while wearing a thong. She picked up the cap with one quick, gamin swoop.

"I guess it depends what I'm kneeling down for," she added, smirking. "I'm old. I'm not dead."

Maybe she really is immortal.