Bette Midler (68 page)

Bates, Kathy

Bathhouse Betty
(album)

BBC1-TV

Beaches
(book)

Beaches
(film)

Beaches
(soundtrack)

“Beast of Burden” (song)

“Beast of Burden” (video)

Beatty, Warren

“Bed of Roses” (song)

Belafonte, Harry

“Believe” (song)

Bell, Arthur

Bell Records

Ben Folds Five

Bergen, Candice

Berkeley, Busby

Berle, Milton

Bette
(album)

Bette! Divine Madness
(concert tour)

Bette Does Motown
(album)

Bette Midler
(album)

Bette Midler’s Mondo Beyondo
(TV special)

Bette of Roses
(album)

Bette
(TV comedy)

Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills Medical Center, California

Beverly Wilshire Hotel, California

Big Business
(film)

“Big Noise from Winnetka” (song)

“Big Socks” (songs)

Billboard
charts

“All I Need to Know”

Bathhouse Betty

Bette

Bette of Roses

“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”

Broken Blossom

Divine Madness

“Do You Want to Dance?”

Experience the Divine

For the Boys

“Gee Whiz”

“In These Shoes”

The Rose
(album)

“The Rose” (song)

“Someone That I Used to Love”

Songs for the New Depression

“Storybook Children”

Thighs and Whispers

“When a Man Loves a Woman”

The Billboard Music Awards
(TV special)

“Billy-a-Dick” (song)

“Birds” (song)

birth

The Birth of Venus
(painting)

birthdays

Bisset, Jacqueline

“The Bitch Is Back” (song)

Bitter End, New York City

Black-Eyed Susan

Blatt, Jerry

material written by

songs written with

“Bless You, Child” (song)

Blondell, Joan

Blood on the Tracks
(album)

Blue, David

“Blue Rondo ala Turk” (song)

“Blueberry Pie” (song)

Blumberg, Michael

Boarding House, San Francisco

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
(film)

Bono, Sonny

“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (song)

Andrews Sisters and

included in
Live at Last

Manilow-produced version

sung at Continental Baths

sung at
United We Stand
concert

sung in
Diva Las Vegas

used in
Clams on the Half-Shell Revue

book signings

Booker, Chuckii

booking agents

Borscht Belt, New York

Boston Globe

Bottom Line, New York City

Boudu Saved from Drowning
(film)

Bowie, David

box office sales

“Beaches”

Big Business

Clams on the Half-Shell Revue

“De Tour” shows

Divine Madness

First Wives Club

Hocus Pocus

Isn’t She Great

Sister Act

Stella

That Old Feeling

“Boxing” (song)

“Breaking Up Somebody’s Home” (song)

Bristol, Johnny

Broadway Central Hotel, New York City

Broken Blossom
(album)

Brown, James

Brubeck, Dave

Bruckheimer-Martell, Bonnie

backing
out of projects

Bette
and

Midler and

views on
For the Boys

Bryant, Kobe

“Buckets of Rain” (song)

Buckingham, Lindsey

Buffalo, New York

Burke, Delta

Burt Bacharach—Opus No. 3

Byrds

Caan, James

Cable ACE Awards

Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas

“California Dreamin’ ” (song)

“Call Me” (song)

Canceled
(book)

Cantor, Eddie

“Cape Cod” (song)

Caperonas, Leon

Capote, Truman

Carey, Mariah

Carlin, George

Carmichael, Hoagy

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Carnival! The Rainforest Foundation Tribute
(album)

Carole Bayer Sager
(album)

Carousel

Carpenter, Karen

Carpenter, Richard

Carson, Johnny

Cash Box
magazine

Casting: Beaches

Bette

Big Business

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Drowning Mona

First Wives Club

Get Shorty

Gypsy

Jinxed

Oliver & Company

Outrageous Fortune

The Rose

Stella

That Old Feeling

CBS-TV

“C.C. Rider” (song)

Central Park musical festival

Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles

Channing, Stockard

“Chanukah, Oh Chanukah” (song)

“Chapel of Love” (song)

charity work

AIDS-related

charity album

Children’s Diabetes Foundation

New York City Preservation Society

New York Restoration Project

Phoenix House

Purple Heart Cruise

United Jewish Appeal

Charles, Ray

“Chattanooga Choo Choo” (song)

Cheers
(TV series)

Cher

Cher
(TV special)

Chicago Sun Times

Chicago Tribune

childbirth

Childers, Beth Ellen

childhood

Children’s Diabetes Foundation

“The Christmas Song”

“The Christmas Waltz” (song)

Cinderella

Civic Auditorium, Pasadena

Clams on the Half-Shell Revue
(Broadway show)

Clapton, Eric

Cleveland, Ohio

Clifford, John

Clift, Monty

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

Clooney, Rosemary

clothing and dress

Academy Awards telecast

Art or Bust

Cher

Clams on the Half-Shell Revue

Continental Baths

Diva Las Vegas

Divine Madness

“Divine Miss Millennium”

Fantasia 2000

For the Boys

Grammy Awards telecast

Harlettes

Hocus Pocus

mermaid outfit

MTV Awards

Nolte in Beverly Hills

opening night part for
The Rose

parent’s reaction to

“Star Spangled Night for Rights”

Stella

teen years

vintage clothing

Yakety Yak: Take It Back
.
See also
appearance

Club Bijou, Philadelphia

CNN

Cocker, Joe

Coldwater Canyon, Hollywood

Cole, Nat King

Cole, Natalie

Collins, Jackie

Collins, Joan

Collins, Pat

Collins, Phil

Collins, Stephen

“Color of Roses” (song)

Columbia Records

Columbia University

“Come Back, Jimmy Dean” (song)

“Come Go with Me” (song)

“Come Rain or Come Shine” (song)

“Come Up and See Me Sometime” (song)

“Comic Relief”

Continental Baths

clip from included in
Art or Bust

initial work at

last performance

Linhart’s gig at

Midler’s views of engagements there

return to in
1972

tribute to in
The Rose

women attending shows

Cooke, Sam

Coolidge, Rita

Copacabana, New York City

Copenhagen

Corliss, Richard

covers: Broken Blossom

Divine Madness

Newsweek

People
magazine

Vanity Fair

A
View from a Broad

“Cowgirl’s Dream” (song)

Cox, Deborah

Coyote, Peter

“Cradle Days” (song)

Crawford, Cliff

Crawford, Randy

Crenshaw, Marshall

critiques.
See
reviews and critiques

Crossley, Charlotte

Crown Royal Revue

Cruise, Tom

Crystal, Billy

Cue
magazine

Cunningham, Billy

Curry, Tim

Curtis, Jamie Lee

Cybill
(TV show)

“Da Doo Ron Ron” (song)

Daily Variety

Dallas, Peter

dance charts

D’Arcy, Patty

daughter.
See
von Haselberg, Sophie Frederica Alohilani

The David Frost Show

Davis, Hal

Davis, Joan

Day, Doris

“A Day in the Life” (song)

“Daytime Hustler” (song)

De Shield, Andre

De Tour

Dean, James

“Dear Mr. Carson” (song)

DeGeneres, Ellen

Del Vikings

DeLago, Dolores

DeLorean, John

“Delta Dawn” (song)

DeMille, Cecil B.

Denby, David

“Depression Tour”

Desert Storm

Desperately Seeking Susan
(film)

Destiny’s Child

Detroit Free Press

Detroit, Michigan

DeVito, Danny

Dexter, Baby Jane

Diamond, Neil

Dinkins, David

discography

Disney Corporation

Disney Studios

Diva Las Vegas
(concert)

Diva Las Vegas
(TV special)

Divine, Loretta

Divine Madness
(album)

Divine Madness
(film)

Divine Miss M

The Divine Miss M
(album)

“Divine Miss Millennium” (concert)

The Divine Mr. J
. (film)

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
(film)

Dixiecups

“Do You Want to Dance?” (song)

“Doctor Long John” (song)

Dodger Stadium

“Dolores DeLago—the Toast of Chicago”

Dolores Jalapeno’s Clams on the Half-Shell Revue
(Broadway show)

Donald Duck

“Don’t Know Much” (song)

“Don’t Leave Me This Way” (song)

“Don’t Say Nothing Bad (about My Baby)” (song)

Doobie Brothers

Dorn, Joel

Douglas, Illeana

Down and Out in Beverly Hills
(film)

Downey, Robert, Jr.

Downstairs at the Upstairs (supper club)

Dr. John

“Dream Lover” (song)

“Dreams of Sand” (song)

Dreyfus, James

Dreyfuss, Richard

Drifters

“Drinking Again” (song)

Drowning Mona
(comedy)

drug abuse

Duffy, Mike

Dunn, Kevin

DVDs,
Divine Madness

Dylan, Bob

“E Street Shuffle” (song)

Eagles

earnings

Continental Baths

De Tour

Divine Madness

For the Boys

from lawsuits

gold, as payment

Gypsy

Harlettes

opening acts

The Rose

Streisand, Barbra

world tour

Earth Day Special
(TV special)

earthquakes

Eastwood, Clint

Ebert, Roger

Egyptian Theater, Los Angeles

Eisenberg, Frannie

Electric Circus, New York City

Ellen
(TV show)

Ellman, Kevin

EMI

Eminem

Emmy awards

Employment: in chorus job

off-Broadway and experimental theater

part-time jobs in New York City

pineapple factory

“Empty Bed Blues” (song)

Endeavor

Entertainment Weekly

environmental issues

Ertegun, Ahmet

“Every Road Leads Back to You” (song)

“Everyone’s Gone to the Moon” (song)

“Everything’s Coming Up Roses” (song)

Experience the Divine
(album)

Experience the Divine
(tour)

Exposing Myself
(book)

Eydie, Vicki

The Fabulous Bette Midler Show

Fantasia 2000
(film)

Fantasia
(film)

Farina, Dennis

Farrell, Will

fashion industry party

“Fat As I Am” (song)

father.
See
Midler, Fred

“Favorite Waste of Time” (song)

Featherbed

Federal, Michael

“Feliz Navidad” (song)

Festival Theater, New York City

Fiddler on the Roof
(Broadway show)

Field, Sally

filmography

“Fire Down Below” (song)

“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (song)

First Wives Club
(film)

Flack, Roberta

Flock

“Flying Home” (song)

Fonda, Henry

“For All We Know” (song)

For the Boys
(film)

For the Boys
(soundtrack)

“For Free” (song)

For Our Children
(album)

Ford Motor Company

Foreign Press Association

Formerly of the Harlettes

Forrest, Frederic

The Fortune
(film)

Foster, David

Fox, Michael J.

Franklin, Aretha

Frederick’s of Hollywood

Freeman, Bobby

Friedman, Bud

“Friends” (song)

omitted from
Divine Madness
album

as opening at Carnegie Hall

as opening for Schaffer Music Festival

production style of

on song charts

sung at hospital

sung at “Star Spangled Night for Rights”

“Friendship Theme” (song)