Tuesday 1 December 2020

I'm really a librarian, you know

  • "Don't I look fabulous? I'm a triumph of science and fiction."
  • “I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.”
  • "Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
  • "I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite."
  • "I have my standards. They're low, but I have them."
  • "Trust your talent. You don't have to make a whore of yourself to get ahead. You really don't."
  • "Get the trash off the street and back on the stage where it belongs."
  • "Underneath all this drag, I'm really a librarian, you know."
  • "Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me."
  • "I'm working my way toward divinity."
  • "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!"

Our Patron Saint of Décolletage, Honolulu's finest, The Divine Miss M is - gulp! - 75 years old today!

We adore the woman.

By way of a tribute - among the many, many tributes I have paid to her over the years - here she is in partnership with a fellow Diva, paying tribute to her/their heroines of trash...

Many, many happy returns, Bette Midler (born 1st December 1945)

18 comments:

  1. Oh, dear... I'm a terrible Gay. Of course, I know who Ms Midler is - and she is Fabulous! - but I don't really know any of her work. Hocus Pocus, of course. And I recall being most entertained by Big Business...

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    1. The re-education programme starts right here, young lady! Try this, this and this for starters! Jx

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    2. Oh. lordy - it's developing into The Breakfast Club now. Hands up - who wants to be Molly Ringwald? Jx

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    3. Cripes! Decades of Divaness to swot up on. I may be some time...

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    4. And the government has said there'll be fewer exams next year thanks to COVID, so it's continuous assessment, I'm afraid... Jx

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  2. 2 of my favourite divas, thank you for this piece of joy today 😀 😊

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    1. You are more than welcome, my sweet. Jx

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  3. no fucking way is she 75! damn gorgeous woman!

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    1. It's difficult to even begin to conceive that our "Bathhouse Betty" is seventy-five - it seems like only yesterday I first fell in love with her thanks to her Art or Bust TV extravaganza, yet that was itself 36 years ago..! Gawd, I am old. Jx

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  4. Oh my! Where did I go wrong...
    That was an absolutely perfect way to start my day.Thank you

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    1. We all wish we could have been Bette Midler! Jx

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  5. I love Beaches, and For the Boys, and The First Wives Club!
    Sx

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    1. I never watched Beaches - too schmaltzy and girly from what I've heard - but I love her comedies, and For The Boys was brilliant. Jx

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    2. Oh, yes, First Wives Club! I've seen that too. I do recall having several opportunities to watch Beaches, but passed them by for the same reason that you did, Jon.

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    3. It's one of those films - live Love, Actually or French Lieutenant's Woman, Bridget Jones or Terms of Endearment etcetera, etcetera - that I can't ever imagine enjoying under any circumstances. Jx

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    1. Well-deserved Patron Saint-hood, indeed. Jx

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