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...Broadway revival brought Angela Lansbury a Tony award, and a 1989 revival did the same for Tyne Daly. Gypsy has never been better told nor Momma Rose more arrestingly played, however, than in the 3-hr. CBS television version to air this Sunday starring Bette Midler. If there is ever again to be a mass audience for filmed musicals more complex and less percussive than MTV videos, this is the vehicle to blaze the path...
...Midler, who has re-ignited her career with a smash national tour this fall, may be a good choice for getting ratings but she was a risky one artistically. She has always been more of a personality than an actress, more engaging as herself than as someone else, save in her exquisite portrayal of a doomed Janis Joplinesque singer in The Rose. Midler's style is ironic, mocking, frequently distanced from the material she is playing. The Momma Rose of Gypsy is a desperate, driven woman, unfazed by law or morality in her single-minded pursuit of stardom...
Poetry authored by students, renditions of Bette Midler's "From A Distance" and a panel on faculty diversity were all part of a series of events celebrating Diversity Day at the Law School yesterday...
...divine Ms. Midler wows 'em at Radio City Music Hall...
Still, if one were to condemn her to a single job, it would be to do what she is doing right now. To err is Midler; to tour, divine. This star needs to be appreciated live, where her voice sounds fuller than on records, where her jokes have an easier intimacy than on TV, where she can raid the piano bench of every pop composer from Jule Styne to John Prine and make it sound completely her, where her tiny frame and infectious smile fill a huge stage. And where she looks fit and pretty. Strutting in her royal blue...