Bootleg Betty
Hey Bette!, What Ya Got Cooking?
Mister D
February 16, 2023
It seems like I have been gone a month, but I think it’s only been 16 days. Still, that’s like a lifetime for me. so I’m going to be catching up on all things Bette in this post. I hope it hasn’t been a lot! I’m going to put this in list form:
- Bette Midler To Be Honored With Distinguished Collaborator Award at Costume Designers Guild Awards 2023– Midler will be honored at its 25th annual ceremony with the Distinguished Collaborator Award. The award honors those who have strongly supported costume design and creative partnerships with costume designers. It’s a fitting one, given Midler’s decades of work with costume designers and her championing of beloved fashion designers including Marc Jacobs, Christopher John Rogers and Michael Kors over the years. Past recipients made me think Midler should have gotten this long ago; Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood, Lorne Michaels, Shonda Rimes, Ryan Murphy, Quentin Tarrantino, and more…Also, Hocus Pocus is nominated for:
- Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film
- Deborah L. Scott, Avatar: The Way of Water
- Ruth E. Carter, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Shirley Kurata, Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Salvador Perez, Hocus Pocus 2
- Mayes C. Rubeo, Thor: Love and Thunder
- The ceremony will be held at The Fairmont Century City, Feb 27, 202
- History Daily looks back at old photos to remind us how we loved the 80’s. Bette Midler and the Harlettes are shown: We may know her as an actress and funny woman, but before she was the star of screens big and small Bette Midler fronted a lounge act in Manhattan that draw huge crowds thanks to her big voice and over the top humor. As her fame grew so did her show. She brought in a group of backup singers as well as choreographer Toni Basil to help her create a routine that Rolling Stone compared to Tina Turner. The experience was so intense that former Harlette Linda Hart said that providing backup for Midler was like “show business boot camp.”
