Bette’s Best Bets (Thanks to Leighann And Her Grandma)

Good Housekeeping
Best Bettes
May 2005

She’s been entertaining us for years. Now the Divine Miss M shares her picks for divine entertainment.

MOVIES THAT MAKE HER LAUGH

“The Producers! The funniest movie ever made.” Runners-up – Some Like It Hot, Office Space, Sideways, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the Carry On series, and Eddie Murphy in nearly anything.

GREAT READS

Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan, The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, Mapp & Lucia by E.F. Benson, Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitforf; Biography by Laura Thompson, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up by Bob Colacello, Mrs. Greenthumbs by Cassandra Danz, Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke, The 9/11 Commission Report , and Without a Net edited by Michelle Tea .

SONGS SHE LOVES

Girl form the North Country (Bob Dylan), Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana), 100 Years (Five for Fighting), A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke), Pirate Jenny (Brecht and Weill), You (Bonnie Raitt), Woodstock (Joni Mitchell)