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Thursday, October 25, 2018
BetteBack August 10, 1975: Bette Midler Discovers The Manhattan Transfer
Cedar Rapids Gazette
August 10, 1975
Their story reads like a scenario out of a 1940s movie musical.
The action opens late one night on a New York City street, where cab driver Tim Hauser picks up a pretty young redhead dressed in hot pants and cape. He explains he’s an out-of-work singer. She introduces herself as Laurel Masse, an aspiring vocalist.
Fade out — and fade into a scene at a west end bar some hours later, where the couple is plotting, planning, fantasizing about making beautiful music together.
Monday, October 15, 2018
BetteBack August 9, 1975: I hear Bette Midler isn’t nearly so popular offstage as she is onstage. True?
Altoona Mirror
August 9, 1975
I hear Bette Midler isn’t nearly so popular offstage as she is onstage. True?K. Denton, Newport, Ky.
Not on the evidence we have. During the New York run of “Clams on the Half Shell‘ she ordered 70 picnic hampers from the Trattoria and Brasserie restaurants to be delivered to the theater between shows on weekends, as there was no time for the cast and crew to go out to dinner.
When Alexis Smith visited Bette backstage after one show, her dressing room was crowded and Alexis didn’t recognize Bette, with no makeup and her hair pulled back.”In fact, she was introducing herself to people, ” said Alexis, who told Bette she was leaving for a Florida club date. With that, Bette took her to a corner and passed on some valuable tips about club work, a rare thing for performers to do. They usually guard their “secrets ” as closely as the Pentagon does.
Friday, June 8, 2018
Sounds of Pride: Bette Midler at the Gay Baths
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Sounds of Pride: Bette Midler at the Gay Baths
June 2, 2018 larryattheoutfront
Unless you were actually there, it’s nearly impossible to imagine the gay bath houses of the 1970’s. More than just sex clubs, “the baths” were a gay oasis, a haven, and safe space away from homophobia and the threat of violence.
For a few bucks a guy could not only get laid, but relax, be himself with other gay men; and on the weekends, grab dinner and catch the floor show. One person who remembers exactly what it was like is Bathhouse Betty aka Bette Midler who got her start as a solo artist performing at the baths.
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Tagged Barry Manilow, Bathhouse Betty, Bette Midler, Continental Baths, Gay Men, New York, The Showgirl Must Go On
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Saturday, February 10, 2018
BetteBack May 13, 1975: Bette Midler: Still divine
South Mississippi Sun
May 13, 1975
NEW YORK (UPI) — So great has been the demand for tickets for the divine Bette Midler‘s show at the Minskoff Theater that her run has been extended from four weeks to 10 weeks, ending June 21. Small wonder. The mop-haired, raunchy-tongued, trashily dressed singer took a year out of her notably successful career as an entertainer and recording star to put together a revue called “Clams on the Half Shell.” It was well worth the effort, for this is the most bubbly, amusing entertainment in New York this side of “The Wiz.”
Saturday, February 3, 2018
BetteBack April 24, 1975: It’s a glossier Bette Midler who’s back in the Big Apple (‘Clams’)
Middletown Times Herald
April 24, 1975
NEW YORK – Bette Midler, the tackiest girl in town, has come home to roost at the tackiest theater on Broadway, the Minskoff. She opened last week with her “Clams on the Half Shell Revue,” and proved that it’s oysters that produce pearls, not clams.
The show begins with the overture from “Oklahoma!” — which is not a bad way to open a show. At least it once worked quite well for “Oklahoma!? It then moves straight into a scene from “Showboat.”
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Tagged Academy Award, Americans, Barack Obama, Bette Midler, Bill de Blasio, Broadway theatre, Donald Trump, Eid al-Adha, Empire State Building, Grand Canyon, Joyce Kilmer, Lower Manhattan, New York, New York City, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, New York Restoration Project, The Bronx, World Trade Center (1973–2001)
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Mister D: Bette Midler’s Bedroom in 1981 – I’d Have To Tell Her To Keep Things Tidier! LOL (Photo)
Elevated view of Bette Midler’s bedroom in her Soho loft, New York, New York, August 1981. The loft had been redesigned by architect Alan J Buchsbaum. August 01, 1981
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Tagged Architect, Bedroom, Bette Midler, Getty Images, Mister D, New York, photo
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Saturday, December 2, 2017
Baseball star wins 10 votes, Bette four in New York City mayoral race
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Baseball star wins 10 votes, Bette four in New York City mayoral race
11-30-2017
He was the unanimous winner of the AL Rookie of the Year Award and runner-up in Most Valuable Player, and this week baseball star Aaron Judge also won votes in an unlikely contest: for New York City mayor.
The New York Yankees right fielder was listed on 10 ballots as a write-in candidate for mayor, according to final totals released by the New York City Board of Elections.
Judge received three votes in New York County (Manhattan and the Marble Hill section of the Bronx), four in Brooklyn, two in Queens and one in Staten Island.
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Tagged Aaron Judge, Barack Obama, Bette Midler, Beyonce, Hillary Clinton, Jon Snow, Mayor, New York
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Thursday, November 23, 2017
BetteBack June 1975: Bette Midler – The New Taste
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Bette Midler: The New Taste
June 1975
James Spada
The curtain goes up in New York’s Minskoff Theatre, and the anticipatory audience sees a huge fishnet strung hammock like across the stage. Suddenly an equally large clam comes sliding down, settling into the middle of the net. It slowly opens and out pops Bette Midler, wrapÂped in a Dorothy Lamour sarong, to begin her latest act, the “Clams on the Half Shell Revue.”
The opening of Bette Midler’s newest triumphant theatre enÂgagement is, unintentionally, more appropriate than camp. She’s been in her own personal shell for nearly 18 months, makÂing no personal appearances, filming no TV shows, turning down major movie offers and Broadway shows and, most unÂsettling of all to her fans, not even planning a new album to follow her Golden biggies The Divine Miss M and Bette Midler.
BetteBack June 30, 1975: People Magazine Interview Regarding “Clams”
People Magazine
Bette Midler Returns In Tacky Triumph
June 30, 1975
By Patricia Burstein
In a blue-and-white smock with red sandals coordinating her Bicentennial look, the star shimmied along New York’s 42nd Street on a recent afternoon. Some of the drifters and drunks recognized and swooped down on her, and she fluttered her fingers in self-defense. She slunk past a peep show window, then nipped into an alley. A second later her bright red head popped out – the hand clutching the throat is her own, in the classic strangulation bit of vaudeville. “I wouldn’t say I invented tack,” Bette Midler observed, nasally, “but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.” Though meant as a self-effacing remark, it is true. Her virtual one-woman Broadway show this season has been the biggest hit by a solo artist since she herself last brightened the Great White Way in 1973.
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Tagged 116th Street (Manhattan), 34th Street (Manhattan), Aaron Russo, American Journal of Public Health, Astronomer, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Broadway (Manhattan), Columbia University, Delta Dawn, Don York, Elton John, Friends (Bette Midler song), Grammy Award, Honolulu, Lionel Hampton, List of streets in Manhattan, Manhattan, Minskoff Theatre, New York, New York City, Sophie Tucker, The Bitch Is Back, The Divine Miss M, When a Man Loves a Woman (song)
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