Bette Midler On Trying Too Much To Carry The Bette TV Series: “It was like doing a little Broadway show every week. I had no idea it was going to be that hard The first four or five episodes I was sick to my stomach. It was absolutely horrifying. We need more and funnier characters. And I think that’s what we’re going to go for.” (Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, January 9, 2001)