Word: midler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these productions is The Lost Colony, which was commenced in the summer of 1937 on Roanoke Island, a sandspit between Nags Head and the mainland of North Carolina. The director for the past 21 years has been Joe Layton (a director of some note, as Diana Ross, Bette Midler or Barbra Streisand could tell you), who was saying to the cast during their muggy dress rehearsal, "You're boring. You're dull. Everybody's sounding alike. Everybody's saying lines...
...movie opens with a sweat-dripping scene of the Kid and his band "Revolution"--who are dressed like an amalgam of Errol Flynn and Donna Summer and make Bette Midler's antics look angelic--onstage at the First Avenue Club & 7th Street Entry, a Minneapolis club where Prince also used to play. In the middle of "Let's Go Crazy," enter Apollonia, a New Orleans singer trying desperately to make it in the business. While success continues to elude her, she soon finds both the Kid and his worst enemy, the smoother-than-oil, quintessentially villainous Morris...
When Ms. magazine featured a Harvard professor on its cover last December, it sold more copies than a month earlier, when the feminist periodical spotlighted celebrity rock star Bette Midler...
...perfect sense to Gloria Steinem and the 900 or so people gathered at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week for the Ms. magazine editor's semicentennial birthday party. The feminist fete featured speeches and songs by such liberati as Mario Thomas, Bella Abzug, Bette Midler, Sally Ride and Shirley MacLaine, who wished the birthday girl "success and happiness in all your future lives." Ride, for her part, recalled that her mother, after watching Sally rocket away on television last June, had said, "God bless Gloria Steinem." Steinem, meanwhile, characteristically interpreted her friends' outpouring...
...Saga of Baby Divine, Midler...