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Both Korn and Meredith (Ahmed and Abby) have exceptionally rich voices and loads of stage presence. Korn plays a soulful and winsome part, and Meredith vamps relentlessly, steaming up the stage as a veiled-and-sequined cross between Madonna and Bette Midler. Warren, too, as the lovelorn Celia, belts out a show-stopping number to her old flame, Ahab, begging him not to make her retire ("Don't Veil...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Heat Is On at the Hasty | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

Neophyte entertainers seem drawn to the machines. "The teenagers love singing Billy Joel and Bette Midler tunes," says Musician Irene Regal, who with Husband Mike takes a Starmaker brand karaoke along to gigs at New York bar mitzvahs and parties. Properly lubricated, adults like to giggle through a moonstruck verse or two of a ballad. "It's the only way to go," says Cathy Ruggieri, 40, a hair stylist in Stony Brook, N.Y., who uses her $600 model at home and at her salon. "It makes you sound so good. I wasn't that outgoing before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Song of Myself, on Tape | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...Remember the "Pinup Girl?" Well, she has returned once again and is divine." (Bette Midler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Color Red | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

When Ms. magazine featured a Harvard professor on its cover last December, it sold more copies than a month earlier, when the feminist periodical spotlighted rock star Bette Midler...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Putting Women Into the Equation | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...these productions is The Lost Colony, which was commenced in the summer of 1937 on Roanoke Island, a sandspit between Nags Head and the mainland of North Carolina. The director for the past 21 years has been Joe Layton (a director of some note, as Diana Ross, Bette Midler or Barbra Streisand could tell you), who was saying to the cast during their muggy dress rehearsal, "You're boring. You're dull. Everybody's sounding alike. Everybody's saying lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: The Play Plays On and On | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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