Bette Midler returns to Broadway this spring for the first time in over 30 years to star in a new one-woman show about casting agent Sue Mengers titled I’ll Eat You Last. Via press release: Sue Mengers was an American original. She was the first female “superagent” at a time when women talent agents of any kind were almost unheard …
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Bette Midler Tweets A Poem On Newt
UPDATE: Following a third verse, Bette tweeted out credit to the author.
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Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is The Showgirl Must Go On, a live recording of superstar Bette Midler’s long-running and critically raved Las Vegas extravaganza at Caesar’s Palace. The Showgirl Must Go On becomes available on DVD and Blu-ray across North America today at music outlets and online. The New York Times exults, “Like all great …
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Bette Makes Peace With Gaga
Backstory here.
Read More »Tweet Of The Day – Bette Midler
Bette Midler isn’t too pleased that Lady Gaga has launched a concert bit in which she dresses as a wheelchair-bound mermaid. Midler, of course, has been doing her Delores Delago character for decades.
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Broadway Friday
– Openly gay Broadway star Marty Thomas (Wicked, Xanadu) is suing Twitter to force them to disclose the identity of a user who claimed that Thomas was given crabs by a cast member of Avenue Q. Thomas said in court papers: “I do not suffer from, nor have I ever suffered from a sexually transmitted disease.” Twitter has never been …
Read More »The HRC Gala In Four Minutes
JMG reader Mark S. King recaps last night’s HRC gala in DC in four snarktastic minutes.
Read More »Bette Midler At Her Hulaween Ball
Broadway Speaks OUT’s Marti Gould Cummings interviews Bette Midler at her Hulaween Ball at midtown’s Waldorf-Astoria. Also interviewed: Martha Stewart, Michael Kors, Judy Gold, Gloria Gaynor.
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Courtesy of her promoters, today’s Swag Tuesday booty is Jackpot: The Best Bette, a 19-track collection of Bette Midler’s greatest hits which hits stores and online retailers nationwide today. Rhino’s new career-spanning compilation from the “Divine Miss M” features nineteen tracks including hits and favorites culled from her Atlantic, Warner Bros. and Columbia Records years. The disc also serves up …
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