"Producers kept offering me the ‘Sister Act’ movie, but I said, ‘My fans don’t want to see me in a wimple.’ I literally said, ‘My fans don’t want to see me in a wimple.’(Yes, I've used that title quote before; am still waiting to employ it in a formal pleading. Indeed, the Divine Miss M has balls.)
“And ‘Misery’ — I turned that down because I didn’t want to saw off someone’s foot, even though the role won an Oscar,” Ms. Midler said of Kathy Bates’s turn in the adaptation of the Stephen King thriller. “It was stupid to say no to those pictures. And while I was unsure about doing this play, I felt it was time for me to say yes.”
Friday, April 12, 2013
YOU CAN KEEP THE MEAT DRESS AND THE FIRECRACKER TITS—MERMAID'S MINE: Nice NYT profile of Bette Midler on the eve of her Broadway return, in which she expresses regret over two film roles she turned down:
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