Details below the fold. Right now, OMG, Sophie Tucker jokes:
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Sophie Tucker (born Sofia Kalish; January 13, 1886[4][5] – February 9, 1966) was a Russian-born American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality. Known for her powerful delivery of comical and risqué songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century. She was known by the nickname "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas".[4]
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Tucker was born Sofiya "Sonya" Kalish (in Russian, Софья «Соня» Калиш) in 1886 to a Jewish family[6][7] in Tulchyn, Russian Empire, now Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.[8] (Sonya is a pet name for Sofiya in both Russian and Ukrainian as well as for Sofya, the Yiddish form of the name Sophia.)
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“Pretty legs and great big knockers...”
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays, prior to her engagements in Fiddler on the Roof and Salvation on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following.
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She’s an order of genius smarter than TFG. Just sayin’. She made it on talent. He lost a ton of daddy’s money. Just sayin’.
Midler was raised in rural Aiea, Oahu, the third of four children of a house painter and his wife. She began singing as a child, and her mother encouraged an interest in theatre.
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It was during her time at the Continental Baths that Midler began to develop her bawdy stage persona, The Divine Miss M, performing songs from a variety of genres and appearing in sometimes outrageous costumes while telling off-colour jokes between songs. Those performances thrust Midler into the spotlight, along with her then-unknown accompanist and music director, Barry Manilow.
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Probably the happiest version of “Miss Otis Regrets” that I’ve ever heard.
“You Don’t Own Me”:
(You know what’s the real fantasy in that last clip? That anyone would wear white in Manhattan in winter. They clearly never pay their own dry-cleaning bills!)
I only signed up for a Twitter account so I could follow a few people. I’m so glad Bette is one of them.