Happy Birthday to Bette Midler, The Divine Miss M

If you ever start feeling old, just play this clip of 'The Divine Miss M', Bette Midler. Filmed about a year ago, Bette was 63 years old in this performance. Today, she turns 64. You look fabulous Bette...and we will still need ya...and we will still feed ya...when you're sixty-five! Be sure you watch the very end of the clip.


Bette Midler's early career started out playing the bathhouses of New York City. In an interview years later, she was asked about the friends she made while living there. She replied: "They're dead...they are all dead. I never knew I'd be on such intimate terms with death at such an early age." It's ironic, but somehow befitting that Miss Midler shares her birthday with World AIDS Day. The following clip is from an AIDS benefit in approximately 1994. She sings two of her standards. Very moving. Happy Birthday Bette...and many more.