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...Burbank studios for the last four times. He made wisecracks about Dan Quayle, chatted with guests like Tony Bennett and Robin Williams, and modestly accepted a nightly shower of accolades and standing ovations. The sentimental high point came on Thursday night, when Carson's final guest, Bette Midler, plied him with musical tributes, closing the show with a rendition of One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) as the camera showed Carson looking on, misty-eyed...
What do a Dan Quayle signature jacket, a piece of the Lenin statue from St. Petersburg, and one of Bette Midler's shoes have in common...
...BOYS. The definitive Bette Midler movie -- all music, sass and high emoting -- is also a jazzy panorama of pop culture for half an American century. And even if you skip the movie, get the sound track, which features Bette's great and knowing pipes on excavated swing tunes like Billy-a-Dick and Stuff Like That There...
...film traces the intertwining of an act from the first meeting of singer- funny girl Dixie Leonard (Midler) and song-and-dance man Eddie Sparks (James Caan) at a USO show in wartime England to the final tribute to them as national treasures. That treasurability derives from a willingness to perform for U.S. troops wherever and whenever they are embattled, and from the public's belief that despite the couple's bickering, they really love each other...
CINEMA Bette Midler evokes older, bolder show biz in For the Boys...