	Dart has written nine novels, including "Beaches". She wrote for "The Sonny and Cher Show" variety show in the 1970s. She got the idea to write about a woman "loosely based on 'the no holds barred outrageous person' that she found in Cher. The character became "Cee Cee Bloom" in her ...novel "Beaches" later made into the iconic film of the same name starring Bette Midler."