”¢ A. –The Divine Miss M, currently lensing “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” – something she’ll never be now – came to New York from Hawaii, where she worked in a pineapple processing plant. She got her first paying job (after her now-famous stint at the Continental Baths as a singer) at a resort in the Catskills. Bette got a big $150 for the gig, part of which she had to pay her piano player – some unknown named Barry Manilow
