Bette Midler

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  1. Bette Midler on Her Legendary Career

    07/24/2024

    Bette Midler on Her Legendary Career

    Bette Midler is one of the most iconic entertainers of her generation. Her legendary career spans half a century, including a wide-range of music and Oscar-nominated roles. She’s won multiple Grammys, Emmys, Golden Globes and Tonys, endlessly entertaining and inspiring fans. Midler sat down with Hoda Kotb to reflect on her life, the peak moments in her career and her new comedy film “The Fabulous Four”. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    29 min
  2. Bette Midler: How She Became Divine

    04/26/2022

    Bette Midler: How She Became Divine

    The multitalented singer, actor, songwriter, author tells Alan how her childhood in Hawaii shaped not only her career but also now moves her to bring nature back to the city of New York.

    41 min
  3. Bette Midler and the Screenwriter Paul Rudnick on “Coastal Elites”

    09/04/2020

    Bette Midler and the Screenwriter Paul Rudnick on “Coastal Elites”

    This segment contains adult language. In the new film “Coastal Elites,” Bette Midler plays a New Yorker of a certain type: a retired teacher who lives on the Upper West Side, reads the New York Times with Talmudic attention, and is driven more than half mad by Donald Trump. So much so that one day she picks a fight in a coffee shop with a guy wearing a red MAGA hat, and her monologue takes place when she’s in police custody. The role isn’t too much of a stretch: she tells David Remnick about a long-ago dinner at the Trumps’ apartment that she recalls as a nightmare, and, just days after this interview, Midler tweeted some ill-advised comments about Melania Trump’s accent that she had to apologize for. Paul Rudnick wrote “Coastal Elites” as a series of monologues to be performed at the Public Theatre, but seeing no avenue to perform it during the pandemic, he reconceived of it as a film for HBO, starring big names like Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy, Sarah Paulson, and Issa Rae. And while he’s sad about the state of live theatre, Rudnick has no regrets about taking the show to television: “You actually got closer than you would if it had been staged live in the theatre,” he says. “You have the best possible seat in the house for a Bette Midler performance.”

    22 min
  4. Bette Midler's Career Was Always A Little Queer (Fresh Air+)

    06/16/2024 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Bette Midler's Career Was Always A Little Queer (Fresh Air+)

    The multi-hyphenate singer, actor and author Bette Midler has been a LGBTQ+ icon for much of her wildly successful career. It's only appropriate then, in the middle of Pride Month 2024, that we look back to the unlikely beginnings of that career — as a popular singer in a gay men's bathhouse in 1970s New York City. Hear Midler's 1998 interview in full: https://n.pr/3KsuiZ2. Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.

    9 min
  5. Bette Midler and the Screenwriter Paul Rudnick on “Coastal Elites”

    09/07/2020 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Bette Midler and the Screenwriter Paul Rudnick on “Coastal Elites”

    In the new film “Coastal Elites,” Bette Midler plays a New Yorker of a certain type: a retired teacher who lives on the Upper West Side, reads the New York Times with Talmudic attention, and is driven more than half mad by Donald Trump. So much so that one day she picks a fight in a coffee shop with a guy wearing a red MAGA hat, and her monologue takes place when she’s in police custody. The role isn’t too much of a stretch: she tells David Remnick about a long-ago dinner at the Trumps’ apartment that she recalls as a nightmare, and, just days after this interview, Midler tweeted some ill-advised comments about Melania Trump’s accent that she had to apologize for. Paul Rudnick wrote “Coastal Elites” as a series of monologues to be performed at the Public Theatre, but seeing no avenue to perform it during the pandemic, he reconceived of it as a film for HBO, starring big names like Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy, Sarah Paulson, and Issa Rae. And while he’s sad about the state of live theatre, Rudnick has no regrets about taking the show to television: “You actually got closer than you would if it had been staged live in the theatre,” he says. “You have the best possible seat in the house for a Bette Midler performance.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

    23 min
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