Los Angeles Times
Scoop
By Liz Smith
April 11, 1992
FLASH! Rights were closed last Friday for a CBS three-hour pr ime – t ime version of the great American musical comedy “Gypsy.”
And, are you sitting down? This will star none other than Bette Midler as Mama Rose! (I do hope Liza Minnelli and Tyne Daly and all the other divas who have yearned to revive this Ethel Merman role for the screen ARE sitting down.)
