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Word: notted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's that angry green parrot doing on top of that mound of cotton-candy hair? And who is that in such an enormous wedding dress, balancing the cake, complete with bride and groom, on top of her head? Isn't the answer obvious by now? She is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Those who do not yet know about her soon will. Hollywood tom-toms are all but nominating her for an Academy Award for her first screen role, in The Rose. The movie, the story of a doomed '60s rock star, is one of the few commercial hits of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Those are the clean jokes-just about all of them. Most of the others range from very dirty to dirtier still, and all of them are quite funny. She does not take them seriously, and neither does the audience. She giggles instead of leers, and there is no feeling, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Most of all she laughs at herself. At 34, she is not a pretty woman, but she turns even that to advantage. Some of her jokes are about her ample breasts: "Two of the reasons why I did not become a ballerina." A couple are about the rest of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

The singer she plays in The Rose has often been compared to Janis Joplin, who died of an overdose of drugs in 1970. Though Midler admires Joplin, the rock singer in the film is, in many respects, Bette Midler. Rose grew up in warm Florida, Bette in balmy Hawaii, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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