Monthly Archives: October 2002

From Yahoo New: More on the next benefit Bette will attend and sing!!!!:

Stars from Broadway and Hollywood will take part in a one-night-only event to raise money to create the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, which is estimated to cost $9 million.

The evening – organized by the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) and Katie Couric, wife of the late Jay Monahan – is entitled 42nd & Vine . . . Hollywood Hits Broadway and will be held at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Tuesday, Nov. 12. The many performers will offer selections from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s West Side Story. Read More

I just bought the new CD of Pete Townshend’s Demos throughout the years, entitled, Scooped-a double header….

Reading the liner notes, he states that he wrote 2 songs for Bette Midler…And I Moved and You’re So Clever. He stated he thinks they never reached her because the producer didn’t think much of them…I may post these 2 songs and the 2 songs the ex-Talking Heads wrote for her to see what ya’ll think. If I do it will be Friday when I usually switch songs out….just something different, Read More

This is an older article that I had read when Divine Ya Ya premiered…wasn’t able to find it until now….one can interpret it in many different ways…but Cindy always seems to have a viscious slant…

NY POST/CINDY ADAMS…
–THIS movie “The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood” seems not to be
creating brotherhood. The chick flick stars Ashley Judd, Sandra Bullock, Ellen
Burstyn. It was produced by longtime joined-at-the-hip cohorts Bette Midler and
Bonnie Bruckheimer, who’ve been together over 20 years, who’ve produced Bette’s “All Girl Productions” blockbusters, who, when they announced they’d make this movie, said: “We’re godmothers to each other’s children . . . we’ve been together longer than some of our marriages.” There was a showing in Hollywood. Bruckheimer, who lives in L.A., was present. Bette, who lives in New York, was not. Bruckheimer said to the assembled: “Listen, Bette’s name is on this picture. But that’s only because it was a contractual obligation. She actually
had nothing to do with it at all.” Ya Ya. Read More

An advance unedited copy of Mark Bego’s new book, Bette Midler: Still Divine has fallen into the hands of a Bette fan of high standing…Mister D, Junior…of course I mean Darrell!!! This is what has been reported to me…remember this will probably be different than the book that finally is in your hands when released:

** The book has 21 chapters…

** 45 black and white pictures (most seen before)

** According to the press letter that came with the book, there should be an additional 24 pics…probably color… Read More

By JESSE McKINLEY, NYT Oct 28. 2002

Marvin A. Krauss, one of Broadway’s leading general managers, whose career spanned more than four decades and nearly 100 shows, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 74.

He also managed concerts and events featuring many of the biggest stars of Broadway and Hollywood, including Diana Ross, Bette Midler, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli and Count Basie.