Tag Archives: Bette Midler

Bette Midler To Return To Broadway

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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Swag Tuesday

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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Well Wishes From Bette Midler

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Bette Makes Peace With Gaga

Backstory here.

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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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Tweet Of The Day – Bette Midler

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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 …

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The HRC Gala In Four Minutes

JMG reader Mark S. King recaps last night’s HRC gala in DC in four snarktastic minutes.

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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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Swag Tuesday

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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