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Mister D: Wendy Poo found the audio for this…so thank her. I’m sick of thank you’s 
Barbarian/ Bette/McDreamy Audio
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Mister D: Sorry I missed this. Hopefully a YouTuber will have it….
Midler and McDreamy Tease Babs
Posted by ExtraTV Staff on May 9, 2008 11:23 AM
Star Jones back on “The View” - huh?! Even in the midst of a Star war, Barbara Walters reveals the possibility of Jones returning to the show as a guest host! “I don’t know what the situation might be,” says Babs in an “Extra” exclusive, “but I could see having Star and Rosie back on [the show.]” Wow!
As the revelations keep coming — Hollywood’s finest are weighing in on the host conflagration! This morning on “GMA,” the tables were turned on the interview queen, as she was in the hot seat with Bette Midler and McDreamy himself, Patrick Dempsey. Bette poked fun at Barbara’s newly illuminated sex life, saying, “Barbara, I didn’t know you had it in you.” Funny woman Midler then jokingly asked, “Did you sleep with my husband?” A good-natured Walters answered, “Listen Bette, I would have if I could have!”
Dempsey also delved into a personal issue — nicknames! When asked if she had an alias, the Emmy-winner said, “When I was growing up, we all wanted to have masculine names — in college I was known as Bobby.”
Now revealing her extraordinary life to the world in her memoir, “Audition,” Barbara says that she’s never been in a better place. “I’m in a very happy place in my life and, therefore, I can look back. I hope that people can relate to my struggles.”
Mister D:
Here are small clips of TSFM interviews. Copy/Paste the link in your browser until I can make them clickable:
Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0B6Rd2SXx0
Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uDwpKBKhLs
Part three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZC8ErKk57Q
Part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j13BRI7znRw
Part five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPin1cghcHY
Part six: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDYSiDCmceA
Part seven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NVeofcey1s
Part eight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8QLw34s0as&feature=user
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Mister D:
Our BetteHead friend, Darron, has resurrected his site for Miss Wenda Watch. You’ll see TV, hear podcasts, and read the hottest dish on the web straight from the Hot Dish Diner. Seems like a helluva lot of fun to me, so check it out: Click Here
When you get the chance to see Then She Found Me make sure you participate in the polls: Click Here
Look for some extra music in the jukebox for Mother’s Day. I’m gonna see if I can drudge up some motherly songs….:-)
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Mister D: Here’s yet another interview of Bette talking about TSFM among other things. Thanks for bringing this to my attention Katrin and Karen. And nobody from here better be sending any letters to her or making rude comments. Check your own houses before you start throwing stones.
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Mister D: I thought this was an especially beautiful tribute to Bette and it turned out to be my little fairy helper’s….or worker elf’s…whichever she prefers…anyway, it was her creation. This is beautifully done. Thank you Hayley:
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Mister D: Believe me when I say, Ms. Lipman LOVED Bette’s performance!
Elinor Lipman
I seem to be in the minority of authors who love their adaptations
5:15 PM PDT, May 7, 2008
Some worried readers of my novel, Then She Found Me, have written me in advance of the film’s release, nervous and sometimes high-handed over Hollywood’s apparent departure from my book. Below is the answer I keep handy to convey as politely as possible, Honey, if I don’t mind the changes, why should you?
Dear Worrywarts,
With respect to your fears that the movie version of Then She Found Me is unfaithful to my novel, I hope you will find the following reassuring:
1. I love the movie. Adore it. Have seen it five times. It’s smart, wry, and very touching. The book is the book and the movie is its own entity. This I internalized early on when a wise friend told me, “Think of it as a movie based on characters suggested by the novel.” I do.
2. This project has taken 19 years from option to the big screen. I never thought I’d see this day, let alone experience the thrill of rattling off this cast: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick. And please appreciate the author-booster factor: Audience members reported to me that when Hunt, who directed the movie, introduced it at the Miami Film Festival (I wasn’t there, so this was not pandering ) she said she was inspired by my novel and hoped people would discover my work, and so forth in book-loving fashion. What actor does that?
3. She, Alice Arlen and Vic Levin tried more faithful adaptations of the book. No takers.
4. I would mind the changes if I thought the team were dumbing down or commercializing the story. Au contraire. Helen Hunt devoted 10 years of her life to getting this film made. She has said, in terms of that long road to green-lighting, “It was every version of no I’ve ever imagined.”
The first time she wrote me, she said this:
“All I’ve hoped for is that you feel April and Bernice [the book’s main characters] are alive and well, and that the theme and heart of the novel is there, through all of the changes I ended up making. I love Dwight [character who didn’t make it into the final draft]. I imagine him sitting patiently for his turn to come to the screen. After years, I finally realized I had to find a magic sentence, a north star/theme for the movie that I felt deeply about and write toward that. Once I did, it became clear and I was able to start the work of putting aside a character that I LOVE, and trying to find the ones that help tell the story as I was beginning to imagine it on the screen.”
As James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce) said, when someone asked him, “How do you feel about what Hollywood did to your novels?” He pointed to his bookshelf and said, “Hollywood didn’t do anything to my novels. They’re all right here.”
I appreciate your loyalty to my characters, but now I hope you will put my sentences aside to see how a true book lover brought my characters back to life.
Sincerely,
Elinor
NY1
Dozens Turn Out For Unveiling Of “Garden Of Hope” In Brooklyn
May 5, 2008
Dozens of Brooklyn residents turned out this afternoon to celebrate the unveiling of the “Garden of Hope,” the latest chapter in singer Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project.
Midler’s non-profit group is dedicated to revitalizing public spaces across the five boroughs.
The Garden of Hope was restored in honor of Hedi Kravis, a local interior designer who led the planning for the garden until she passed away.
Funding was made possible by sponsors, but organizers say it’s the community that makes the garden come alive.
“Every year we do about five,” said Midler. “We renovate them and we invite the community in for movies, barbeques, games, places where the kids can study, kids can learn about growing their own fruits and vegetables and the seniors can sit around and enjoy themselves with a breath of fresh air.”
“This particular street is not very close to Prospect Park and I think this is an important element of Bette’s program is that she’s bringing these gardens to areas that don’t have city parks in close proximity,” said designer Ellie Cullman. “It really provides an oasis of calm and green for the neighborhood.”
The garden will hold a special opening on Saturday at 10 a.m., with programs and activities running through the weekend.
For more information about the Restoration Project, go to www.nyrp.org.
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Boston Globe
MOVIE REVIEW
In ‘Then She Found Me,’ Hunt conceives a stress test
By Wesley Morris, Globe Staff | May 2, 2008
Helen Hunt deserves a lot of credit for agreeing to look like hell in “Then She Found Me,” though it’s hard to see how she had any other choice. The movie, which she directed and co-wrote, never gives her a moment’s rest. It’s a whirl from the first scene - a chaotically photographed Jewish wedding of Brooklyn schoolteachers, April (Hunt) and Ben (Matthew Broderick) - to its last flurry of shots.
In almost no time, Ben tells April, who’s been having a tough time conceiving, that he wants out of the marriage (Broderick’s playing another one of his lumpy boy-men). Then they make love and he leaves. Hours later, she shows up at school only to discover he’s left her with his class to teach in addition to hers. A scene later, a divorced parent (Colin Firth) sees April freaking out near the parking lot and gives her advice that she interprets as a come-on (she eventually tries dating him). Next: April’s adoptive mother dies, her birth mother tries to establish contact after 39 years, and April finds out that she can get pregnant.
This all seems to happen in about 20 minutes, and things continue at that pace for another 80 or so. What ought to be a bittersweet movie about a woman’s momentary unraveling feels like a workout class: Cardio melodrama.
Bring your emotional gym clothes. After it’s announced that April’s birth mother is a New York talk-show host played by Bette Midler, you’ll need them. I was expecting Blythe Danner, Glenn Close, or a Redgrave sister, someone who might explain April’s WASP-y features and uptight demeanor. Midler just confused me.
With her uncannily smooth face and Uzi-caliber line delivery, Midler is the Jewish mother as relentless diva, but hungry for love and surprisingly wise. It’s a big improvement over her altruistic mommy in 1990’s “Stella Dallas” remake. She energizes this movie the way a great entertainer ought to. But her energy - and the resentful way April reacts to it - also really made me think: What is up with Helen Hunt?
The idea that she could be Bette Midler’s illegitimate daughter is like something out of Hollywood science-fiction. I try imagining Hunt flying around Radio City Music Hall in a motorized wheelchair wearing one of the Divine Miss M’s shimmering mermaid tails and feel ridiculous. Hunt takes herself a lot more seriously than a woman with Midler’s genes should.
Mister D: Every once in awhile you’ll see me throw something like this up to help raise money for BLB upkeep. When you buy something from Amazon on this site a certain small per centage goes into the old server fund or other things you might not think of that is related to the site (s) I maintain.
The following are 10 new releases of SOME of my favorite diva things…CD’s out now, new, and upcoming. Of course this time the carousel includes Bette’s upcoming “Jackpot”, but I’m particularly excited by the new Donna Summer and Cyndi Lauper CD’s……enjoy!:
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