Bette Midler To Johnny Carson About Only One Parent Coming To See Her Homecoming Show: “NO, one parent was there. My mother came, but my father, oh, he just said, Oh, I just can’t.”? He’s read some things about me, you know, and he’s very conservative. He likes Lawrence Welk. He doesn’t like too much cleavage. In fact, every time I went over there to dinner, he made me safety-pin my dress together O God, my mother got a charge, though. She kept screaming, Faaaabulous, faaaabulous . . . I used to have a lot of trouble when I was living there, you know. Cause I was a Jewish girl growing up in a Samoan neighborhood . . . I left . . . and, you know, the old story about I’ll show them . . I really felt that way and I had a lot of anger built up in me from those years…” (Newsweek, 1973)
