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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 08:10 AM
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We went to a BETTE MIDLER concert last night
all I can say is that it was....
TREMENDOUS!!!
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DUreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 08:22 AM
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1. I saw Bette when I was 12 at a concert staged for filming of 'The Rose'
Movie about J. Joplin.

Concert was awesome as she and the band kept playing songs between 'takes'

I finally saw the movie years later which was a let down after that

concert. We had backstage passes and got to see Bette up close.

I was a little too young to really appreciate it but looking back

on it is fun.

She is a powerhouse
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Lost4words Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 08:53 AM
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2. Nice opportunity, so you must be 36 +/-?
Would love to see Bette live!
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 10:58 AM
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6. coincidentaly - her co-star in 'the rose', alan bates, just died
:(
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JewelsforDennis Donating Member (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 12:00 PM
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10. How did he pass?
I missed that, how did he die? I saw the Rose for Christmas in 1980 something with the Carters at Camp David. Big deal for me then.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 12:06 PM
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11. cancer
there's a Lounge thread with the story
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Lost4words Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 08:55 AM
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3. what sort of band did she have Radfringe?
sounds like a good show!
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 10:28 AM
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4. Comes from a NYC Speakeasy whose Address # was 86
Edited on Sun Dec-28-03 10:31 AM by GalleryGod
When the cops would raid-they'd be tipped off-and all sorts of secret contraptions would swing into play.

Saw it on "The History Channel: Tunnels and Secret Passages"

Thus "86-it!" came into the vernacular. Probably highjacked by drunken patrons who toiled on Madison Avenue in the Advertising & Publicity bidness
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Limbought Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 03:50 PM
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13. "86"
I is my understanding that "86" means it is dead & gone.

A grave is 8 feet long & 6 feet deep.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 10:52 AM
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5. I don't look good in green
but that's the shade I'll be wearing all day.

I'm glad for you. No. Really.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 11:00 AM
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7. saw her about 20 years ago
during the ART or BUST Tour at Radio City Music Hall.

glad she's still doing live performances, she totally fires up an audience!
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 11:37 AM
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8. I've seen her 3 times back in the 70s
Twice in her "Clams on the Half-Shell Revue" with Lionel Hampton on Broadway, and once in her "Depression" tour (to plug "Songs for the New Depression"). She was fantastic – really raunchy (this was before she went to Hollywood) – and not all that far from "The Baths." She was really outrageous back then.
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Limbought Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 11:46 AM
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9. "Miss M" is Divine!
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 03:37 PM
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12. I wanna see the KISS MY BRASS show and can't wait for her
upcoming movie...a comedy remake of "The Stepford Wives"
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KFC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 04:14 PM
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14. How much did they pay you?
My price would be at least $500/hr to watch that nasty boo-hog.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-03 04:20 PM
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15. Wow! that was hostile
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