Cher did not hold back during an interview with The Times while promoting her new memoir, “Cher: The Memoir Part 1.” The icon was reflecting on her Oscar-winning movie career when she revealed: “There are only two directors I didn’t like: Peter Bogdanovich and the guy from ‘The Muppets.'” She worked with the former on 1985’s “Mask,” for which she won best actress at Cannes, and the latter was Frank Oz, who directed her on 1990’s “Mermaids.”

“I actually got the guy from ‘The Muppets’ fired,” Cher remembered. “I said, either you’re going or I’m going, which is a shame because he’s a really good director, but he had a thing about me. He would go, ‘At least my wife loves me!’”

Bogdanovich was a bigger challenge on “Mask.” The film told the true story of Roy L. “Rocky” Dennis, a boy with a rare genetic...