Talk:Bette Midler

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Contents 1 Clean Up 2 The "Bette" TV show 3 Picture 4 Divine Madness Link 5 Misc 6 Birthplace 7 Compilation albums

[edit] Clean Up

At the very least, can someone fix the "charted singles" section. It looks so...nasty. I'm not familiar enough with the website/html to create a chart...76.112.102.98 11:50, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The "Bette" TV show

I came here to look up stuff about the "Bette" TV show that aired in 2000; particularly about its ratings and why it was cancelled so soon. If anyone could add something about it, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Eje211 11:09, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

I can't believe we don't have a picture for Bette Midler. There's got to be a picture that's GFDL friendly. …Guy M… ^(soapbox) 05:21, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I tagged the article, and left a request at Wikipedia:Requested pictures. Hopefully someone has something suitable. Michael 08:30, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Divine Madness Link

Just Noting that the link to the Album Divine Madness refers to an album by Madness (band).

[edit] Misc

Maybe all the redlinks be removed and just left as plain text?
-- KaiAdin 12:56, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Not unless you know that all of them are unworthy of articles! WP is a work in progress; don't disrupt that part of the work just bcz it isn't done.
--Jerzy•t 21:29, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Red links? I'm working on some of them, although they keep getting quick deleted. Surely a sub stub when clicking on them is better than a page saying "BEEEEP does not exist" JayKeaton 06:04, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

In any case I've been recreating them with JUST enough info in them to escape the evil deleting machine JayKeaton 06:04, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Birthplace

Was she born in NJ or on Oahu? Both are stated in the biography, which is impossible.
Guille 09:51, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Bootleg Betty has a thorough bio w/ the HI PoB, and Bette Midler at the Internet Movie Database agrees. Changed accordingly.
--Jerzy•t 21:29, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Allmusic.com lists Paterson, New Jersey as her birthplace. Does anyone has access to books or other offline records that could help solve this mystery?--Alphae 17:59, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Seems like it's a misunderstanding that her parents were from Paterson, but she was born in Honolulu. I found a Dec. 4, 1973 NY Times article that begins "Despite Bette Midler's Honolulu birthplace, New York has always regarded her as homegrown and hometown." I found a later 1978 NY Times profile that stated "daughter of a house painter from Honolulu by way of Paterson, N.J... The family originally settled there, she said, when her father selected it as the place farthest away from his domineering mother in Paterson, N.J. The Circumstances of her birth have given Midler a series of one-liners about being the only Jewish girl in a Samoan Neighborhood." BETTE MIDLER GOES HOLLYWOOD by Warren Hoge Dec 10, 1978. p. SM26 Ando228 17:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

These sound like good references to add in. Wikipedia:Citation templates is quite helpful if you want to add these as footnotes.-- Ashley VH 19:41, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

IT seems from the above and from http://www.e-hawaii.com/stars/index/bette_midler/default.htm that born and raised in HI is the fact. I changed the text, though the info box is already correct.Rsugden (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 04:53, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Compilation albums

Somebody had placed her Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, and Xmas albums in the "compilations" section when these are actually studio albums. A compilation album is a collection of work that the same artist has already previously recorded and released (such as "Experience The Divine" is a compilation of Midler's greatest hits). MassassiUK 08:17, 26 June 2007 (UTC)