Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein & Sharon Osbourne Attend Cyndi's Walk Of Fame Ceremony In Hollywood

Ozzy's on tour. Black Sabbath's on tour. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this morning's special double Walk of Fame ceremony. Seven American Video Awards and 18 MTV Awards. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling autobiography, Cindy Lauper, A Memoir. How many of you have read it? As an actress, she made her Broadway debut in the Three-Penny Opera. She has appeared in numerous television shows, including Man About You, for which she won an Emmy, and Bones. She has performed in such films as The Opportunist, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Life with Mikey, Off and Running, and Vibes. Cindy also continues her philanthropic work for her foundation, the True Colors Fund. Now let me tell you a little bit about Harvey Fierstein. Harvey is the author of the Tony Award-winning best musical, Kinky Boots. In 2015, he revised NBC's The Wiz Live and the sold-out London production of Funny Girl. His other award-winning Broadway writing credits include the recent hits Newsies and Casa Valentina. As well, and get this, I mean it's really quite an amazing repertoire, as well as Torch Song Trilogy. A Catered Affair, Safe Sex, Legs Diamond, Spook House, Flatbush Tosca, Common Ground and more. His political editorials have been published in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, as well as being broadcast on PBS's In the Life. His award-winning children's book, The Sissy Duckling, is now in its fifth edition. As an actor, Harvey is known worldwide for his performances in films including Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, Bullets Over Broadway. On stage, he has performed in Hairspray, Kindler on the Roof, La Cage a Folle, and Torch Song Trilogy. On TV, he has been seen in Smash, How I Met Your Mother, The Good Wife, Cheers, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Nurse Jackie. Harvey has worked with numerous LGBT charities and will be honored this June at the Logo Trailblazers Awards. And so now, please help me welcome to the stage our honorees, Cindy Lauper and Harvey Fierstein. Now, before you get to hear from our honorees, we have a few special presentations. Around the world, the fact that we have this one-of-a-kind amenity that can be found nowhere else, and that is the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Today, we celebrate Cindy Lauper and Harvey Fierstein, two of the most versatile, celebrated, and successful entertainers of the past several decades. Their words, their music, their performances, especially their work together in Kinky Boots, has enriched our lives, celebrated our diversity, and provided great love and great laughs. You cannot think of the great music of our era, or the great musicals of our era, or the great movies, without acknowledging the prodigious, enduring talents of these two amazing artists. For these reasons, they are truly deserving of their stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And let me just say a few words. Cindy Lauper and Harvey Fierstein championed out activism during the depths of the AIDS crisis. They made it okay to be exactly who you are in society, which, down the road, helped inform policy makers like myself to reflect that in law. It gives me great pleasure to honor these two enlightened, but kick-ass artists, Cindy Lauper and Harvey Fierstein. Harvey Fierstein! Thank you, Councilmember O'Farrell. Our next speaker serves as host of The Talk, CBS's Daytime Emmy Award-nominated talk show that examines topical events and contemporary issues through the eyes of five female hosts. Her career in the music industry has spanned more than 30 years. In addition to managing the career of her husband, Walk of Famer Ozzy Osbourne, she has managed numerous artists such as Black Sabbath, Smashing Pumpkins, Motörhead, and Slave. Thank you! It's an honor to be here today with you all, to see you so deservingly receive this star. And what could be better than to be outside for a while? I'm in a position to have your star. I mean, it couldn't be better. Now, I could stand here all day and tell you how amazing Cindy is, but I won't do that, so I have to make it short. Now, she's had an endless career, which spans decades. And as much as we love Cindy here in this country, let me tell you, she is loved as much worldwide. There is not one country in the world that they don't know and love Cindy Lauper. She's a prolific songwriter. She's an incredible performer. Incredible. But that voice of hers, my lord, that voice is endless. Absolutely endless. Nobody sounds like Cindy Lauper. She's instantly recognizable. She's a true original. She's been original from the day she was born. With the way she presents herself, her style, her pursuit for perfection is endless. But you know what? It's not enough for Cindy Lauper to have it after it being a pop star. No. She's not an artist that wants to stay on one road. She's all things to everyone, and now she's taken her talents to Broadway with Kinky Boots. She won a Tony Award, which is amazing. And one thing which she never forgets over everything, over her love of music, her love of family, and that is her pursuit for true equality. And huge congratulations for getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Cindy Lauper, I love you. Now our next speaker is known for playing Harvey's daughter in her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film, Hairspray. The role won her the 2003 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, a Drama Desk Award, a Theatre Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance. Please welcome Marisa Jerrick-Lenofer to the stage. Many of the lessons that I teach my own son. Are direct quotes from Harvey. And they're amazing, and they should be taught to all your children. Never be bullied into silence. To be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself. And as I remind my son, one way or another. Oh, I'm not being upstaged by a train. There we go. I mean, this is Hollywood, people. Accept no one's definition of yourself. Define yourself. And as I remind my son, one way or another, every day. I just want to be loved. Is that so wrong? Harvey. They can never take this away from you. I mean. So let's start with Cindy and then Harvey. That was pretty great, thank you so much. So you know it's going to open, is it opening Wednesday? Yeah, right here. So come see it. I don't know what to say. I was thinking about it last night, this morning. I don't know if something like this always happens with friends. And the fact that, you know, Harvey is also my mother, so when Marissa said that he was her mother, it kind of jolted me a little, because she called me Tina through the whole process. And himself Mommy Dearest. Jerry. Jerry would tell me he wanted a song in the back, one where everybody said yeah, and then he danced around the room. So I said, yeah. Okay. So everybody said yeah. I guess I'm telling you this because I would not have done this show had it not been for these two gentlemen and Harvey who called me up that day. I'd always wanted to work with Harvey. I'd always felt that he was a great speaker, but he also, and a great leader, but he also is one of the great storytellers of musicals. And to have been, actually walk through the process between Harvey Fierstein, Holding My Hand, and Jerry Mitchell, and Stephen Lewis, I am very, very honored. It couldn't have been better. And one time I actually closed my eyes and asked my guardian angel, am I going to do okay? And he just showed me an image of me as Dorothy with the lion, the scarecrow, and the Tin Man, and I thought, okay, I can do this. But anyway, I just want to say thank you to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the people from the Walk of Fame, my manager, my husband who shares me with, my dear friend Sharon, Harold Luftick, and all the fans. Thank you. And my new record company, we showed up last year. And finally I'm starting a record. It's 20 years late, but I'm here. Anyway, I love you guys, and thank you so much. I want to, it's my pleasure to introduce my friend and my companion on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the frolicking crowd. As we go frolicking along, that's like a Christmas carol. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Harvey Fierstein. Well, there really is nothing better than being with friends. And to do something like this, and I'm so thrilled to have my family here, and my friends here, and even my agent here. Welcome, welcome. And calling Cindy and having her come along. But like I said, when you're working with friends, there's just nothing, there's nothing better. You work in your life, and you work really hard, and you enjoy every moment, or I do. And you enjoy the ups, and the downs, but you don't actually look at things like the Hollywood Walk of Fame as something that's ever going to happen to you in your life. I mean, I'm on the Brooklyn Walk of Fame, that I sort of, I'm right next to Lady Kazam. It's between Julie Budd and Lady Kazam. But to think that Donald Trump has one of these. You know? Listen, listen, listen. There's a very thin line between fame and infamy. I know which side I belong on. We're going to get a map for Donald. But yes, we have Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott, and right under here is Kristen Chenoweth. I wrote to her this morning, and I said, I'm right next to you, Kristen. So it's just really exciting. It's really very out-of-body experience. Thank you all for coming out to be here, like I said, in Sydney. It's unbelievable. Thank you, my family. Thank you, my friends. Thank you, CAA. It's going to cost me 10% of everything. Thank you, my darling daughter, Marissa. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you. Thank you all.