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Four showgirls stride onto the Radio City Music Hall stage to play a fanfare. It is fitting that one of the strumpets with trumpets is chewing gum, for she and her sisters are introducing a supremely brassy babe. Crescendo! Curtain! Giant cotton-swab clouds! And there, radiant on a throne, sits the Arch Angel of Pop and Schlock. The message is clear: Bette Midler has lived up to her self-promotion. She is divine...
CIVIL RIGHTS: Don't Call Me "Babe...
...would never happen. Heckendorn, now 50, says she finally ran into a high- level gauntlet of sexual harassment and discrimination. In a lawsuit filed last week, she accuses one male director of repeatedly calling her "babe" and another of inviting her to sit on his lap at a board meeting. Heckendorn, who claims she was passed over for the top job solely because she is a woman, is demanding $15 million in damages. "This is a way to seek a remedy and, hopefully, vindication," she says. National Medical, which is based in Santa Monica, California, denied the charges and vowed...
...stompin' inside -- especially when the team approaches competence. Rightfielder Dante Bichette strikes out but reaches first base when the catcher drops the ball, and receives an ovation. The infield turns a creaky double play, making the putout on .057-batting pitcher Charlie Hough, and the crowd cheers as if Babe Ruth had just gone oh-fer. "All that noise they make gives me an adrenaline boost," says Bichette. "You don't want to embarrass yourself in front of 60,000 fans." First baseman Andres Galarraga, the Venezuelan whose dimpled charisma is the club's handsomest calling card, takes the crowd...
...Inside Edge seems more like an adolescent male Sassy, published by Harvard's adolescent-males-in-residence. Its regular features include "Ask Mike," "hip advice from a guy who's been around." Then there's "Ask Monique," "what to know from a babe who's been around." I hope Inside Edge has more staying power than The Jerk. It's probably just as absurd as the parody that came before...