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Highest Rebound: Bette Midler, who stormed back from a jinxed movie career to recover her standing as Ms. Show Biz with a 50-city concert tour, a cable-TV special, a new album, and a bestselling book, The Saga of Baby Divine...
...Saga of Baby Divine, Midler...
...including Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles). Singing standards like Yesterday When I Was Young, The Old Fashioned Way and She is not enough to justify a solo stint on the grand scale. The star need not wear a mermaid's tail and wriggle in a wheelchair, as Bette Midler did in her recent socko turn at Radio City Music Hall. One needs simply to magnetize the spectator. Midler can do it singing The Rose; Lena Horne does it torching Stormy Weather one more time. Aznavour does not. Moreover, his show's mood is often broken by inept lighting...
This punkette is no Olivia Newton-John in spikes. The ingenue, Jackie Mullins, is played by a mysterious little dynamo named Jo Kennedy, who looks strikingly like Princess Di dressed by Bette Midler and has a powerful but musky soprano voice. Her hushed way of speaking is haunting as well. She leaves Ruby Keeler and all the namby-pamby ingenues before her in the dust...
...seasoned TIME interviewer of celebrities as diverse as Meryl Streep, Bette Midler and Robert Redford, Dutka remarked on the visible solidity of the Newmans' relationship. Says she: "Humor is evidently its mainstay. Her dry, self-deprecating wit complements his broader, almost raunchy jokes. There's an obvious bond of respect and affection between them...