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BETTE MIDLER FORGETS
THAT "YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE FRIENDS"!
Outspoken, zany singer-comedian Bette Midler just may have spoken out a
little too loudly and strongly this time. The singer, who got her
start performing to devoted audiences of towel-draped gay boys at
Manhattan's Continental Baths, recently told an interviewer in no uncertain
terms: "I don't want to talk about fags. Besides, I don't have
a gay following. I wouldn't know a homosexual if I saw one."
Ms. Midler's choice remarks made more waves than her super spectacle
"Clams On The Half-Shell Revue" - that's the one where Bette
sings while nestled in a giant furry King Kong paw. Many of the
lady's gay fans (who she wouldn't know if she fell over) decided to make
themselves known once and for all. Several sent telegrams to the
star, expressing their outrage; others threatened to picket the Chicago
Opera House where she was appearing and still others vowed to walk out on
her performance in protest.
While, happily for Bette, none of the above came to pass, "The
Divine" Ms. M has lately felt badly enough to offer apologies to all
injured parties. In the meantime, her manager as attempted to rationalize
Bette's megaphone mouth by saying that she star is "exhausted"
from her concert tour.
Well, maybe Bette does need a rest. She has been acting pretty upset
lately - first, "that interview," then publically slapping a
prominent programmer who said he wasn't just crazy about her Strangers
In The Night single. But how can anyone explain Bette's
screaming out in yet another interview: "Let's talk about me. I
sing, I dance, I'm a warm, moving, wonderful human being."
Right, Bette - at least we believe you!
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BETTE MIDLER became so
terrified of dying, she gave up smoking pot! "I have the
paranoia of death now," she says. "So I hardly do anything
except for a few Vitamin C tablets now and again . . . I'm a paranoid
person to begin with," she adds and feels better without pot.
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