Bette matched feisty James Caan in the WWII drama For the Boys (1991), made a dynamic trio with Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton in The First Wives Club (1996), was back on screen with DeVito for the tepid comedy Drowning Mona (2000) and turned up in the glossy remake of The Stepford Wives (2004). She played an obnoxious wife who was the victim of a kidnap plot by her scoundrel husband, played by Danny DeVito, in Ruthless People (1986), was pursued by CIA and KGB spies in Outrageous Fortune (1987), played mismatched twins with Lily Tomlin in Big Business (1988) and shone in the tear-jerker Beaches (1988). In 1986, director Paul Mazursky cast Midler opposite Nick Nolte and Richard Dreyfuss in the hilarious Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), and so began a string of very funny comedic film roles. After minor roles in several film/TV productions, she surprised all with her knockout performance of a hard-living rock-and-roll singer (loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin) in The Rose (1979), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her first album was "The Divine Miss M" released in November 1972, followed by the self-titled "Bette Midler" released in November 1973, both of which took off up the music charts, and Bette's popularity swiftly escalated from there. Midler studied drama at the University of Hawaii and got her musical career started by performing in gay bathhouses with piano accompaniment from Barry Manilow. Her parents, originally from New Jersey, were both from Jewish families (from Russia, Poland, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire). She is the daughter of Ruth (Schindel), a seamstress, and Fred Midler, a painter. Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945.
These scenes are givens - and should have been given away, to make room for laughs that could come from characters, dialogue and conflict.Multi Grammy Award-winning singer/comedienne/author Bette Midler has also proven herself to be a very capable actress in a string of both dramatic and comedic roles. In the least amusing of several would-be running gags, a bum outside the hotel does double-takes when he thinks he’s seeing double. One doesn’t recognize the Italian but the other one does. One begins a breakfast and the other finishes it. After the babies have been switched and the premise has been set up, far too much time is spent with the futile manipulation of the four characters in the hotel.
BETTE MIDLER MOVIES BIG BUSINESS MOVIE
The fundamental problems of the movie all can be traced, I suspect, back to the screenplay. The Jupiter Hollow Midler seems unfocused, and both Tomlins seem to be the same rather vague woman who has trouble with her shoulderpads.
The most promising character probably is Sadie Shelton, Midler’s New York company executive, who has the potential to be a bitch on wheels but never realizes it. Midler and Tomlin can be funny actors, but here they both seem muted and toned down in all of the characters they play. The life all seems to have escaped from this movie. The impending sale inspires the Jupiter Hollow women to travel up north to New York for the annual stockholder’s meeting of the company controlled by the Manhattan women.īoth sets of women check into the Plaza Hotel at the same time, inspiring numerous flat and tedious scenes that are structured as if they were intended to be slapstick. Meanwhile, the New York Midler wants to sell out the factory and the town to a shifty Italian investor who wants to strip-mine the whole county right off the map. They work in the local factory, which has manufactured porch swings from time immemorial. But the Midler/Tomlin team from down South in Jupiter Hollow is a little nicer. Both Midlers are conniving and materialistic, and both Tomlins are flutter-brained and well-meaning. In its presentation of the two sets of non-twins, the movie backs genetics rather than environment as the prime formative factor in human development.
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