Bette Midler (70 page)

review of Downstairs at the Upstairs gig

review of
Get Bruce

review of
Get Shorty

review of
Isn’t She Great?

review of
Jinxed

review of
Ol’ Red Hair Is Back

review of
That Old Feeling

Newark International Airport, New Jersey

Newman, Paul

News and Observer
, Raleigh, North Carolina

Newsweek

Newton-John, Olivia

Nicholson, Jack

nightclub tours

No Frills
(album)

“No Jestering” (song)

“Nobody Else but You” (song)

Nolte, Nick

Norma Rae
(film)

Nyro, Laura

O
magazine

Oates, John

O’Donnell, Rosie

“Oh Industry” (song)

“Oh Jerusalem” (song)

“Oh My My” (song)

Oklahoma!
(Broadway show)

Ol’ Red Hair Is Back
(TV special)

“Old Cape Cod” (song)

Oliver & Company
(film)

On Golden Pond
(film)

“One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show” (song)

“One More Cheer” (song)

“One More Round” (song)

“One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)” (song)

One True Thing
(film)

“Only in Miami” (song)

onstage antics

Academy Awards telecast

in
Clams on the Half-Shell Revue

Continental Baths

Diva Las Vegas

Divine Madness

Mondo Beyondo

New Year’s Eve show (1982)

Ol’ Red Hair Is Back

Schaffer Music Festival

Stella

stripping for charity

Tommy

wheelchair use

when receiving Hasty Pudding Award

opening acts

“Optimistic Voices” (song)

Orbit
magazine

Osbourne, Ozzy

Ostrow, Steve

“Otto Titsling” (song)

Outrageous Fortune
(film)

“Oy Vegas”(song)

Pacific Sun

Palace Theater, New York City

Palm Beached
(film)

Paper Moon Graphics, Los Angeles

“Paradise” (song)

Paradise Theater, Boston

parents.
See
Midler, Fred; Midler, Ruth

Paris, France

Park West, Chicago

Parker, Sarah Jessica

Parton, Dolly

Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles

Pearl
(album)

The Pearl
(biography)

People
magazine

People’s Choice Awards

Peppermint Lounge, New York City

“Perfect Ain’t Easy” (song)

Peters, Bernadette

Philadelphia Orchestra

Philbin, Regis

Phoenix House

Piaf, Edith

Pine Knob, Detroit

Pink

“Pink Cadillac” (song)

Playgirl
magazine

Plitt Century Plaza Theater, Los Angeles

Plotkin, Chuck

Pointer Sisters

Pomerantz, David

Porter, Cole

Porter, Marsha

Portland Opera

A Prayer for America

pregnancy

Presley, Elvis, impersonator of

“Pretty Legs and Great Big Knockers” (song)

privacy issues

Pryor, Richard

“P.S. I Love You” (song)

public service music videos

Purple Heart Cruise

racism

Radford High School, Hawaii

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

radio stations

“Rain” (song)

“Rainbow Sleeve” (song)

Rainforest Foundation

Raleigh, North Carolina

Randall, Tony

“The Ransom of Red Chief” (short story)

Rasche, David

ratings,
Bette

Rawls, Lou

Raye, Martha

“Ready to Begin Again” (song)

record charts:
Beaches

“In the Mood”

songs from
No Frills

“Wind beneath My Wings”

Record Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Record World

Red Rocks Amphitheater, Denver

“Red” (song)

Redd, Sharon

Reddy, Helen

Reed, Rex

Reiner, Carl

Reiner, Rob

Reiser, Paul

reviews and critiques

Thighs and Whispers

Art or Bust!

Beaches

Bette

Bette of Roses

Big Business

Broken Blossom

Clams on the Half-Shell Revue

Continental Baths appearances

Divine Madness

Divine Miss M
album

“Divine Miss Millennium”

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Downstairs at the Upstairs

Drowning Mona

First Wives’ Club

For the Boys

Get Bruce

Get Shorty

Gypsy

Hocus Pocus

Isn’t She Great

Jinxed

Live at Last

Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!

Ol’ Red Hair Is Back

Outrageous Fortune

The Rose

Ruthless People

Scenes from a Mall

Songs for the New Depression

Stella

That Old Feeling

RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.

RIAA.
See
Record Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Richie, Lionel

Riegert, Peter

Rivera, Geraldo

Rivers, Joan

Rix, Luther

Roberts, Bruce

Robinson, Smokey

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

“Rock the Boat” (song)

Rogers & Hart

Rogers, Kenny

Rolling Stone: The Tenth Anniversary
(TV special)

Rolling Stone
magazine

Rolling Stones

Ronettes

Ronstadt, Linda

Rosanne

The Rose
(album)

The Rose
(film)

awards for

Coca-Cola incident with Russo

opening night party

Rydell’s view of Midler in

soundtrack from

world premiere of

“The Rose” (song)

on
Broken Blossom

in
De Jour

on
Divine Madness

Grammy Award for

sung at
Diva Las Vegas

rose theme

“Rose’s Turn” (song)

Ross, Diana

Rothchild, Paul A.

Roxy, Los Angeles

Ruby Award

Rundgren, Todd

Russo, Aaron

acting out resentment
toward

comparison to character in
The Rose

employees

gay-rights rally

Harlettes and

marriage proposal to Midler

Midler’s battles with

on Midler’s New Year’s Eve antics

on Midler’s personal life

on opening of
The Divine Mr. J
.

post-Midler life

reaction to Midler in lesbian scene

relationship portrayed in movie

release of

suicide attempt

Ruthless People
(film)

Rydell, Mark

The Saga of Baby Divine
(book)

Sagal, Katie

Sager, Carole Bayer

Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas

Sahl, Mort

Salvation
(play)

“Samedie et Vendredi” (song)

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Saturday Night Live
(TV show)

“Save the Last Dance for Me” (song)

Save Our Human Rights Foundation (SOHR)

“Say Goodbye to Hollywood” (song)

Scenes from a Mall
(film)

Scenes from a Marriage
(film)

Schaffer Music Festival, New York City

Schuck, John

Schumer, Chuck

Screw
magazine

Seattle Opera Company

Segal, George

Seinfeld, Jerry

Seinfeld
(TV show)

self-evaluation

after 1973 tour

of appearance on
Cher
show

career progress

of
Clams on the Half-Shell Revue

defense of films

as Disney star

on film making

knowledge of music business

married life

in
Playgirl
interview

post recording of
No Frills

relationships

on seeing herself on screen

singing style

of
Thighs and Whispers

“Sentimental Journey” (song)

September
11, 2001

Sesame Street

The Seven Deadly Sins
(opera)

Sex and the City
(TV show)

Sexual Perversity in Chicago
(off-Broadway show)

“Sha-Boom Sha-Boom” (song)

Shaiman, Marc

Shepard, Cybill

“Shining Star” (song)

“Shiver Me Timbers” (song)

Showboat
(Broadway show)

“Shy As a Violet” (song)

siblings

Sidewalk of Stars, Radio City Music Hall

Siegel, Don

The Sig Sakowitz Show
(talk show)

Sight and Sound

Simon & Schuster Publishers

Simon, Carly

Simon, Paul

Simpson, Valerie

The Simpsons
(TV show)

Sinatra, Frank

“Since You Stayed Here” (song)

Sinderella

single mothers

Siskell, Gene

Sister Act
(film)

“Skylark” (song)

Skynyrd, Lynyrd

Sledge, Percy

“Small World” (song)

Smith, Bessie

Snow, Phoebe

So Many Mammaries!
(album)

Sobel, Curt

Soho Weekly News

“Sold My Soul to Rock n’ Roll” (song)

“Some People” (song)

Some People’s Lives
(album)

“Someone That I Used to Love” (song)

“Something to Remember You By” (song)

Sondheim, Stephen

“Song of Bernadette” (song)

Songs for the New Depression
(album)

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

“Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

“Sound Factory Vox Mix” (song)

South, Margaret Jennings

South Pacific
(Broadway show)

Spago’s, Hollywood

“Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” (song)

Springsteen, Bruce

Stallone, Sylvester

Stand Up Detective
(comedy)

Stanwyck, Barbara

Staples Center, Los Angeles

“The Star Spangled Banner”

Star Spangled Night, Inc.

“Star Spangled Night for Rights” (rally)

“Stardust” (song)

Starr, Ringo

“Stay with Me” (song)

“The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (song)

Steinberg, David

Steinem, Gloria

Steinfeld, Jake

Stella Dallas
(film)

Stella
(film)

Stereo Review

Stewart, Rod

Still Crazy after All These Years
(album)

Stiller, Ben

Stokowski, Leopold

“Storybook Children” (song)

“Strangers in the Night” (song)

Streep, Meryl

“Streets of Gold” (song)

Streisand, Barbra

Stuart, Hamish

“Stuff Like That There” (song)

Sunday New York Daily News

“Superstar” (song)

Supremes

“Surabaya Johnny” (song)

Susann, Jacqueline

Sylvester

talk shows

tape recordings

Tauber, Doris

Tauber, Mercer

Taylor, James

Taylor, Jonathan

teen years

television appearances

Bing Crosby special

Cher

Mike Douglas Show

Ol’ Red Hair Is Back

Rolling Stone: The Tenth Anniversary

Saturday Night Live

television specials

Templeman, Ted

“Ten Cents a Dance” (song)

That Old Feeling
(comedy)

That Old Feeling
(film)

“That’s How Heartaches Are Made” (song)

“That’s How Love Moves” (song)

“The Stripper” (song)

Thighs and Whispers
(album)

Three of a Kind
(film)

“The Thrill Is Gone” (song)

ThunderDome, St. Petersburg, Florida

ticket sales.
See also
box office sales

Time
magazine

Tiny Tim

TNT Cable network

“To Comfort You” (song)

“To Deserve You” (song)

“Together, Wherever We Go” (song)

Tomei, Marisa

Tomlin, Lily

Tommy
(rock opera)

The Tonight Show

Tonin’
(album)

Tony awards

“Too Busy Thinking about My Baby” (song)

Torn, Rip

Torrington, Connecticut, Register Citizen

Touchstone Pictures

“Tragedy” (song)

Travolta, John

Tribeca, New York City

Troubadour, Los Angeles

Trump, Ivana

Tucker, Sophie

Turner, Tina

TV Guide

TV Guide Awards

Twas the Night
(TV special)

“Twisted” (song)

Two against Nature
(album)

“Ukelele Lady” (song)

“Under the Boardwalk” (song)

Unforgettable
(album)

Union Rescue Mission, Los Angeles

United Artists

United Jewish Appeal

United We Stand: What More Can I Give?
(concert)

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles

University of Hawaii

“Up the Ladder to the Roof” (song)

upfront

Uprise
(show)

“Uptown” (song)

US
magazine

USA Today

“Vacation in Rio” (song)

Valley of the Dolls
(book)