(Playing an 80 year old in For The Boys frightened Bette): “I’d never done it like Dustin Hoffman did in “Little Big Man” and Keir Dullea in “2001” So I spent some days at an old-age home, but I found that the makeup was a tremendous help From the personal standpoint, she said, seeing herself wrinkled, puffy and liver-spotted, was “œdepressing ” (1991) – Bette Midler
