Word: midler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bette Midler...
...wrote two screenplays but she refuses to do any more or to attempt a play for the stage, despite pleas from producers, because "I cannot stand the tedious business of having to tell everything through dialogue." She is protective of her stories in the hands of others. When Bette Midler made a six-figure offer for the rights to Rendell's favorite book, The Killing Doll, the author spurned the offer. Midler, she says, was wrong for the role...
...moment, DeVito is better off playing pigs, like the snarling clothier who wants to get rid of his shrewish wife Bette Midler in Ruthless People. But the little man has bigger plans. He has directed episodes of Taxi and Amazing Stories. He and Perlman have founded New Street Productions to generate their own projects, which would surely expand the range of DeVito roles. "He could take on Edward G. Robinson parts, or even romantic leads," Rhea says. "When people get to know him, they'll see he's capable of anything." One thing: people who get to know...
Curly-haired Judge Reinhold's cute face mixes fear, determination and desperation well as Ken the kidnapper, but Helen Slater as his wife is just too sweet. Bette Midler as Mrs. Stone adds a refreshing, and necessary bit of life to the otherwise completely cariacatured movie, with her exaggerated but occasionally hilarious performance as a spoiled rich bitch who, underneath her dyed hair and her gold lame jumpsuit, just wants to be loved...
...Midler insults her kidnappers and bounces up and down in time with TV exercise programs with real spunk, although even that deteriorates by the end of the movie, when she kicks her husband into the water in a bad imitation of Abbott and Costello...