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...Midler's Clams on the Halfshell Revue set a new one-day record (more than $200,000), and Bob Fosse's $650,000 musical Chicago has not even come...
...come from a background where work is an honorable thing, and it finally got to me," explained combustive Singer Bette Midler after her 15-month absence from the stage. Midler abruptly stopped short her career in December 1973 and set out for a visit with her family in Honolulu, a tour of Paris art museums, and a respite in the Caribbean. "I learned a lot," says Bette of her sabbatical, "about dancing, speaking, singing and juggling." All of which Midler has incorporated into her new revue, Clams on the Half Shell, which opened last week in Philadelphia. During her break...
...reach its full potential. Her comic range is still nothing for Lily Tomlin to worry about. The monologues are often monosyllabic, the sketches as thin as her own profile. If there is exuberance in her singing-dancing numbers with such potent guest stars as Raquel Welch and Bette Midler, there is also a feeling that she will not entirely prove herself until she dares front a show that lacks such heavy supporting artillery. She also seems to need the security of incredibly lavish productions. Each program costs $225,000 to $240,000, and the show was $80,000 over budget...
...startled to see him looking like a grizzled ancient in his forthcoming appearance on the Cher TV special. Wearing a satin-lapelled dressing gown and high-heeled clunkers, John plays a senile rock-'n'-roller incarcerated in a rest home along with an equally decayed Bette Midler and Flip Wilson. John's eyeglasses, a particular fetish, are surprisingly modest. Of his 100 pairs, he has chosen tinted aviators, rather than the giant shades even larger than himself that he once staggered onstage with, or the sporty diamanté numbers with pin wheels sparkling at the corners that...
...other two at the White House and I'll take care of them. That will take some of the stuffiness out of the place." Susan is also musing, apropos of White House entertainment, that "it would be great to have a party with the Beach Boys or Bette Midler...