Bette Midler On The Rock Critics: “The writers thought I had no skill. That was one of the things that made me so angry. The bad would torture me so that all the good in the world couldn’t make up for it. The press used to beat the shit out of me. It used to drive me mad, just mad. I would hole up in a room and not see people for a long, long time. I wasn’t aware that it came with the territory and now I don’t read any of it.” (Lakeland Ledger ”“ Dec 26, 1979)
