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Bette Midler: Dirty Girl in a Bathouse saturday april 27 4:30 pm PM Screening $11 - COLONY THEATRE |
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Time travel back thirty years to the legendary bathhouse where the boys in towels had live entertainment in the form of one Bette Midler, an at-the-time unknown actress and singer fondly refered to as "the Jewish Tinker Bell." The Divine Miss M. went from dazzling the demimonde of New York City to becoming an international pop sensation. This year's clips-talk (like The Celluloid Closet presented live) pays homage to Midler and also critically examines why gay and Jewish audiences particularly perceive her as a celebrity icon. Our host Andrew Ingall leads us through the highways and byways of Bette's early career, using precious vintage footage from 1971 to 1982 to illustrate her special brand of camp - playful, political, ethnic, feminist and thoroughly queer. Rarely-seen footage will include amateur video from the Continental Baths, Bette's appearance at New York's Gay Pride Rally in 1973, her outrageous stunt to score a $5,000 pledge at the 1975 UJA telethon, and an excerpt from her bawdily sacrilegious 1971 underground debut film, The Divine Mr. J (aka The Greatest Story Ever Overtold).
Bette Midler: Dirty Girl in a Bathhouse is presented by Andrew Ingall, a writer and curator with special interests in music, television and other aspects of popular culture. He has given lectures and video presentations for the New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the International Association for Media and History. He is Collections Manager of the National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting & Media at The Jewish Museum, New York.
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