Bette Midler
Headline:
'Regrets? I've had a few...'
Synopsis:
Bette Midler's career has taken her from New York to Hollywood, and now to Las Vegas. She wishes it had all gone a little differently, she tells Emma Brockes, but she is still a star in her 60s - and that's not easy these days.
The night before I meet Bette Midler I watch Beaches again for the first time in 15 years. There it all is: the smoking under the boardwalk, the seminal photobooth scene, the Christmas carols in the tiny flat, the row at the makeup counter (when Midler says to Barbara Hershey, "You're jealous of my career" and Hershey says, "You only got your husband by default" and Midler says, "At least I own my life"), the reconciliation, the vacation, and the swan song when Hershey, limp in a deckchair, is knocked stone dead by the condescension of Wind Beneath My Wings. Midler, vibrant in yellow, cackles and fluffs out. "My God, it seems like such a long time ago. People still talk about it. It's either the worst chick flick or the best chick flick. Nothing in between."
- Publish date:
- 19 September 2008
- Author:
- Emma Brockes
- Source:
- The Guardian
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