Word: midlerisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called Bette Midler, who has adopted roads in New York and Los Angeles and signed up Robin Williams and HBO and is close to inking Larry King. "It's not curing cancer or anything, but it adds quality to people's lives," she said...
...irritation quickly melted into a vision of a road I could call my own. I dreamed of a highway that would embarrass Bette Midler's highway. I would set up lawn chairs and an aboveground pool and turn the shoulder into some kind of make-out spot. I would ride up and down on my motorcycle like Peter Fonda, only without Dennis Hopper, because he annoys me. Sammy Hagar would play on weekends...
...elicited numerous laughs from the audience with her self-deprecating humor and lip sync of "You Don't Ovn Me," a song she sang with Diane Keaton and Better Midler in "The First Wives Club" movie...
NAME: BETTE, FORMERLY "THE ROSE" AGE: 53 OCCUPATION: Singer, used to act in movies BEST PUNCH: Finally taking the stage after midnight, Midler took a thinly veiled swipe at Cher's canned performance, quipping, "I feel like Grace Jones, except I'm singin' live, babe...
...fair that the Diva Divine makes albums only as vacations from movies and motherhood, for her genius is as a singer-entertainer. Midler's vocal voltage and pristine song salesmanship are on display here in tunes by Leonard Cohen, Chuckii Booker, Carole King, Ben Folds--lots of fine folk. Her voice can ache with hard-won wisdom (on the first single, My One True Friend) or smile with the sweet clarity of her Honolulu youth (Gus Kahn's 1925 Ukulele Lady). Songs like Laughing Matters, I'm Beautiful and I'm Hip give the album the sassy intimacy...