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...Bette Midler has been selected as Hasty Pudding Theatrical's Woman of the Year for 1976, Richard W. Palmer '77, publicity manager for the group, said yesterday...
...Midler's selection is especially appropriate, Palmer said, because "her bawdy and freewheeling style of performance is very close to the Pudding style...
Great Britain's Princess Anne dresses like "a royal auto mechanic." Rockmaster Elton John "would be the campiest spectacle in the Rose Parade if he entered." Singer Bette Midler seems unaware that "pantaloons went out with hoop skirts." So says Hollywood Designer Richard Blackwell, 53, in his 16th annual "worst-dressed" list. Blackwell, who named Jacqueline Onassis among the worst-dressed women of 1971, gave the top award this year to Daughter Caroline Kennedy, 18. She looks like "a shaggy dog in pants," snipped Blackwell, adding, "Who says bad taste isn't inherited...
Tharp has already been called a number of things: the Busby Berkeley of the '70s, a modern Nijinska, a female Balanchine. She has also been put down as modish, cute, instantly disposable-a Bette Midler of dance. "I just don't think ballet is as narrow as many people do," says Tharp. An unabashed eclectic, she does not hesitate to combine a Las Vegas chorine's high kick-or a baseball pitcher's windup-with a classic ballet pas. The result eludes stylistic categorizing, yet remains instantly recognizable as Tharp choreography...
...baths also function is clubs that offer relief from the straight world and as homes away from home for travelers. The Club Baths chain has branches in 32 cites. Some baths have live entertainment: the Man's Country bathhouse in Chicago recently featured Sally Rand, and Bette Midler began her career and won her gay following by singing at the Continental Baths in Manhattan. The Continental is currently shunned by the In set of trendmakers, who patronize Everhart's. Most baths have TV rooms and serve food. Says gay Writer Arthur Bell: "It's like going into a womb?...