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Haole to Haole with Bette Midler

I’d been waiting 25 years to talk to Bette Midler, so I dove at the chance to interview the Divine…

Marc Shaiman Tells All

There is no shortage of memoirs by entertainment figures (or their ghosts), and many are forgettable. But occasionally one arrives…

Marc Shaiman’s Candid New Memoir

Award winning Broadway and Hollywood songwriter Marc Shaiman is looking back on decades of success with a self deprecating sense of humour…

Book Review: Never Mind The Happy By Marc Shaiman

Marc Shaiman isn’t afraid to spill the proverbial tea in his “tell-most” memoir, Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories From a Sore…

BetteBack Dec 1973: Reviews Of Bette Midler Playing The Palace

Skittering on stage like a manical kewpie doll in a green-blue-and-pink dress, tottering in ankle-strap platform shoes, she proclaimed herself…