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SQUEAKY CLEANS. A description used by Singer Bette Midler to characterize fans of the soft, often poetic songs of such bards as Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Melanie. This is an orderly dating crowd in its late teens and early 20s who are interested in love songs. Girls generally outnumber the boys by 2 to 1. Melanie's ethereal fans tend to invade the stage, only to sit quietly at her feet, perhaps lighting candles. Mitchell's following emulates her. "Since Joni started wearing gowns," says Wolf, "the girls have started wearing dresses and makeup...
...robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy Jr., in a blazer, escorted his aunt...
...BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY, Bette Midler. Song of the year. Peaked on the Billboard chart in July at number eight. Midler came into her own here after her offensive recording of a slow "Do You Want to Dance?" Dynamic, good-time sound; harmony by overdubbing her own voice. Joni Mitchell's current single, "Raised on Robbery," is in the same style...
...Blackwell, who has made a name for himself more by criticizing than creating clothes, has announced his annual selection of the worst-dressed women of the year. The No. 1 spot for 1973 was captured by the self-avowed last of the truly tacky women, Pop Star Bette Midler, because "she looks like she took potluck in a Laundromat." Runners-up were such alleged exemplars of basse couture as Princess Anne, Raquel Welch, Tennis Champ Billie Jean King, Jacqueline Onassis (who has been given a lifetime spot on Blackwell's list), Elke Sommer, Sarah Miles, the Andrews Sisters...
Everything you don't want your little girl to become, Bette Midler had finally arrived at Manhattan's Palace Theater. Before an audience drawn mostly from the clientele of her favorite night spot, the Continental Baths, Midler demonstrated once again that she is a superb female impersonator. Not, however, as good as Rodney Pigeon. The following night at the Blue Angel nightclub, Rodney, 20, scored a succèsfou in the French-inspired transvestite revue Zou. Hurling himself onto the pocket-handkerchief stage, the divine Miss M's carbon copy skittered and tittered while belting out Midler...