Word: midlerisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jessica lives life to the hilt every day. She sings in three choruses and at special events sponsored by the city of Conyers; she takes voice and piano lessons, and performs with a kids' musical group. (Her dream is to be the next Bette Midler.) A freshman at Salem High School, she has joined a literary club and is trying out for the golf team. On top of all this, there is the Sock It to Me campaign...
...such, it works terrifically, with faces as new and spirits as fresh as Comden and Green's were in 1944. DeLaria (a Merman crossed with a Midler) and Suber (elegantly, swellegantly hysterical, a Kay Kendall who can sing) remind us of Broadway's continuing lure for talent. Though the musical is a perpetual invalid, kids keep coming to New York wanting to put the show on right here. Where else? When the music's great, the jokes funny, the women sassy and the moon over Central Park gloriously full, New York is once again a helluva town...
...Billy Bob...]...was in For the Boys, with Bette Midler Bette Midler was in The First Wives Club, with Diane Keaton...
...Bette Midler!" Parise emphatically tells Rosenberg, who has the lead in this number...
...good. Only much later did different people begin to think of it in different ways. Steve Fintel, for instance. It is 8:30 on a sleepy Sunday morning in Metairie, Louisiana, and Fintel, a 49-year-old Eucharistic minister at St. Benilde Catholic Church, is playing Bette Midler's 1989 hit Wind Beneath My Wings to his Sunday school class--three 11-year-old boys and one girl. "Did I ever tell you you're my hero?" Midler sings. Fintel directs his four charges to chapter 12 of Genesis, where God tells Abraham, follow me and I will bless...