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...Better You Bette The audience responded enthusiastically to all the performances, but the appreciation became even more pronounced when a proudly svelte Bette Midler took the stage - and the audience - by storm. In addition to singing a hypnotic "The Rose" she brought on Spector chanteuse Darlene Love to duet with her on "He's a Rebel" and deliver a powerhouse "River Deep Mountain High." If anyone had given Midler the new party line on safe humor, she had mislaid the instructions, and she interpolated her singing with her trademark Sophie Tucker-esque one-liners. a cascade of ribaldry uncontaminated...
...Mobb Deep thought the crudites were over blanched b) The audience rushed the stage c) Bette Midler refused her lifetime-achievement award d) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: lotta thug, not much harmony...
...bring such time-warp fare as a Dynasty-like soap from Aaron Spelling and a remake of The Fugitive (CBS, Fridays, 8 p.m., starts Oct. 6). But the show many advertisers give the best odds is Bette (CBS, Wednesdays, 8 p.m., debuts Oct. 11), a sitcom with brassy Bette Midler--an actual professional entertainer!--playing herself a la The Jack Benny Show. The series has plenty for Midler's fans (yes, she sings), but will Survivor's young viewers swing to this boogie-woogie belter's tune...
...month, if that venomous speech didn't take her out of the endorsement game. (It was scary.) Richard - who probably was, as the Internet gossips were saying, putting an addition on his house this summer, the old dog - seems relaxed about it, but he's also pitching Bette Midler for CBS and did more post-speech interviews than Colin Powell. And you can bet Bryant Gumbel isn't letting these people get too far away...
...BEACHES Owning a beach house gives you a fatal heart disease, thereby requiring your orphaned daughter to be raised by saucy Bette Midler...