It is, however, more than bad enough, and Ms. Midler's performance, while not incompetent, is lackluster.
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Jerry Seinfeld and Bette Midler will headline the black tie opening gala on Nov. 13.
Bette Midler begins as a red-hot mama and winds up as Mother Courage.
As Sapper Foster's coffin was carried in to the cathedral, Bette Midler's Wind Beneath my Wings was played over speakers.
I'll Eat You Last - starring Bette Midler as legendary Hollywood agent Sue Mengers - opens on Broadway in April.
Rumored denizens of Millbrook have included Katie Couric, Liam Neeson, Bette Midler, Mary Tyler Moore, Sigourney Weaver and Matthew Modine.
Dion's groundbreaking deal ushered in a cadre of big-name music acts (Elton John, Bette Midler) signing exclusive contracts in Las Vegas.
Three big movies open Christmas day: Les Miserables, Django Unchained and the comedy Parental Guidance starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler.
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Steven Spielberg, Whoopi Goldberg and Bette Midler are all avid book collectors.
The movie (which was produced by her own company) is meant to serve as the Portable Bette a boxed set of Midler moments.
But, as Mr Midler discovers, they are finicky about what is found.
Over the years, celebrities like Neil Diamond, Elton John, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, Billy Crystal and Rod Stewart have all headlined his events.
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In New York, she enlisted celebrity attendees like Justin Timberlake, Barbara Walters, Bette Midler and Oscar de la Renta.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, celebrities such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Bette Midler and Vanna White have had some luck with similar cases.
Some big names snubbed this year were Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Katie Holmes, Bette Midler, Sigourney Weaver, Paul Rudd and Scarlett Johansson.
We also partner with the New York Restoration Project, the effort spearheaded by Bette Midler to clean up city parks, and plant one million trees.
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No doubt it's an accurate imitation Ms. Midler knew Ms. Mengers but it gets old fast, like a T-shirt with a dumb slogan printed on the front.
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Bette Midler, like many pop singers, is a good screen actor.
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The heroines include two yet to be robotized women Bette Midler, slamming into scenes like a runaway truck, and Nicole Kidman, who has energy and spark.
Many production problems are well-known within local manufacturing circles, Mr Midler says, but collusion is rampant and there are no rewards in China for whistle-blowing.
He then toured with Bowie and his vocal talent was soon in demand in sessions with such stars as Chaka Khan, Ringo Starr, Donna Summer, Bette Midler and Barbra Streisand.
But this too, Mr Midler writes, is more form than function, since the tests are by their very nature more limited than the ways to circumvent them.
This structure allows Midler to perform musical numbers from different eras and to attempt the acting tour de force of playing a character at several distinct stages of life.
This odd situation became apparent when Mr Midler witnessed large, modern Chinese factories outsourcing work to smaller, grittier, facilities even though this meant forgoing the production benefits from economies of scale.
Most of the people in Mr Midler's position would not dream of disclosing what they see and many testing laboratories protect their reputation by hiding, rather than revealing, what they test.
And then Bette Midler sang, and told us all about how much she loves birds like all The Audubon Society people, and how she feeds them filtered water in her bird bath.
As a result, if Mr Midler's perceptions are true, the primary source of discovery will come in the worst possible way by consumers who buy Chinese products, only to discover their flaws themselves.
At the Standard, several images, including ones of Bette Midler and Sting, were placed in the famous glass lobby case, once featured on "Sex and the City" and featuring a scantily clad model.
John Logan's "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, " in which Ms. Midler impersonates the late Hollywood superagent, isn't the worst one-person play to hit Broadway this century (that would be "Ann").
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