As Bette Midler begins life as a woman in her 50's, she is showing no signs of slowing down or losing popularity. With platinum records, Academy Award nominations, multiple Grammy Awards, a Tony Award, and an Emmy Award, Bette has a show-biz career few performers can ever achieve and one that many young hopefuls dream of - including a young girl in Hawaii in the 1950s.
Bette was named one of the most "Unforgettable Women of the Century" in a special edition of "People" magazine.
Raised in the only Jewish family in a Samoan neighborhood in Honolulu, young Bette, the namesake of one of her mother's fave actresses, made her move first to Hollywood (ironically, in a bit part in James Michener's Hawaii). Next came New York City, where she honed her trash-as-art sensibility performing in a gay bathhouse with pianist Barry Manilow. These now notorious shows became the basis for her Divine Madness revue on Broadway. But besides camp, she could also vamp--for sentiment--and did in The Rose, a 1979 film loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin. In 1986 she developed a new persona: the kooky, rich housewife in Disney's Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Then round about the time she and her businessman-turned-performance-artist husband Martin von Haselberg became parents of a daughter came her tearjerker Beaches. Its equally soapy theme song, "The Wind Beneath My Wings," won her fourth Grammy. Now, at 52, Midler can look back over a blessedly varied oeuvre and pick which Bette she wants to be: the goddess of concert camp, warbling showstoppers in a mermaid getup? The star of custom comedies like The First Wives Club? Or the drama queen of torch songs and modern-day weepies? Fortunatey, the Divine Miss M (as she deified herself) needn't choose only one.

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