(She’s since won another Tony in competition, and if she ever gets an Oscar, she’ll have the full EGOT.) Midler’s #1 hit was a grand, majestic old-school ballad, the type of thing that Barbra Streisand might’ve sung 10 or 15 years earlier. She’d won an Emmy, two Grammys, a couple of Golden Globes, and a special-recognition Tony, and she’d been nominated for an Oscar. When Midler made her first and only #1 hit, she was 43 years old, and she’d already been in show business for a couple of decades. It would be weird to call Bette Midler a pop star. She distinguished herself onstage and on record and in movies and on TV, and she got opportunities to thrive at all of them. Midler arrived in public life as a fully-formed multi-hyphenate, a singer and actor and energetically brassy public presence. It’s going to be a long, long time before anyone has a career like Bette Midler’s.
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