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Bette Midler Goes To (Summer) Camp

The piranhas of the New York press proved to be a cold fish audience at a preview of Bette Midler’s “Clams on the Half Shell Revue.”

July 1, 1975
David Tipmore

The piranhas of the New York press proved to be a cold fish audience at a preview of Bette Midler’s “Clams on the Half Shell Revue.” It was a crowd that I would not care to face if I were hitting the stage of the Minskoff Theatre with a “comeback” at stake. There was no rushing the stage, no anticipatory laughter, none of that audience sweetening on which Midler’s particular act has always depended.

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