Posted on 12/07/2006 2:54:55 PM PST by MadIvan
After fifty years in showbusiness, Bette Midler probably felt that she had seen and done it all.
Until, that is, she was confronted with the brazenly obscene antics of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.
So, in a scathing, no holds barred attack, the 61-year-old actress has branded the pair 'wild and woolly sluts'.
The singer turned Oscar-nominated actress hit out at the duo who have been repeatedly photographed enjoying a string of wild nights out - missing their underwear.
'I've been on the other side to these wild and woolly sluts that we are seeing around our lives these days and I've taken the other side,' she said.
'I started my life out as pretty wild but I have decided, after much growing and living, that it's time that we got nicer.'
Talking about the pair's headline-grabbing decision to be snapped minus any underwear, she joked: 'I'm wearing underwear, in fact a lot of underwear.
'In fact I'm wearing all the underwear that those girls are not wearing - at least two bras and several pairs of panties.'
When asked on the US TV show Extra if she had a message for the American socialites, she replied: 'Get a life, get a grip. I mean someone should sit those ladies down.'
Her tirade comes after Miss Spears, 25, and 20-year-old Miss Lohan, together with heiress Paris Hilton, have been photographed drinking and partying virtually non-stop over the past six weeks.
Their antics followed Britney's announcement last month that she was divorcing her second husband, Kevin Federline.
Of course, Miss Midler, who is married to her husband of 22 years, producer Martin von Haselberg, is not the first celebrity to have frowned on mother-of-two Miss Spears' recent behaviour.
Troubled singer Courtney Love suggested that she should stay at home more to look after her children while former supermodel Janice Dickinson claimed that Britney's would be wise to 'buckle down and become a parent'.
This latest criticism comes just 24 hours after it was reported that the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services planned to investigate the singer about concerns over the welfare of her two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.
Similarly, it has been an unfortunate week for Mean Girls star, Lindsay Lohan. The brunette actress, who recently joined Alcoholics Anonymous, has reportedly sent a second rambling, semi-literate e-mail to her friends - less than two weeks after making an incoherent tribute to late director Robert Altman.
In a letter obtained by the New York Post, she claimed that she planned to take on gossip columns with the help of former Vice President Al Gore.
'Al Gore will help me,' she wrote. 'He came up to me last night and said he would be very happy to have a conversation with me.
'If he is willing to help me, let's find out. Hilary (sic) Clinton, Bill Clinton and Evan Metroplis (sic) and John Daur who works with them would be willing, if we just ask. If we just ASK.'
This from a woman who performed with Barry Manilow in Gay Bath Houses.
Be that as it may. I'm not even the biggest fan, but I can recognize that at least when Midler made her place in show business, it was a lot harder to do than it seems to be now.
Chin up. It's not so bad as all that.
This too, shall pass.
That
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ever.
Algore helping vunerable 20-year-old starlets? You betcha...
Excelsior!!!
Thank God for that.
Troubled singer Courtney Love suggested that she should stay at home more to look after her children
culture is seriously damaged, and until somehow we can get a change in direction, I am really despondent about this country.....
Me too! I have 3 daughters and it is an ongoing process to try to find decent clothing for them (they are 11, 8 and 5 yr. olds and the clothing is what a 20 yr. old would wear!) Plus, the movies and the tv shows offered for children are shocking at times, rude humor and sexual undertones in the writings. We were watching a family show on the family channel and the commercials were horrible.
Bette, "I started my life out as pretty wild but I have decided, after much growing and living, that it's time that we got nicer."
She WAS WILD!!!
She has the benefit of age to alter her perspective.
At the speed these girls are apparently going, I wonder if they will even reach the age of wisdom.
I was kinda leaning towards A+Bert
Gotta love Bette Midler, even if she is wearing pampers and puffs! {:-)~~
LOL!
It looks like she's channeling the WWE star Undertaker
Michael Savage once posed the question that regarding celebrities, has there ever been a time in history when the compensation was so disporportionately inverse to the ability.
Think about it. Spears is a singer, and not very talented at that. Lohan is an actress, and limited in her abilties as well. As for Hilton, she's famous for being on magazine covers without having merited it for achievements of ANY kind.
LOLOL!
I think hilton's fame is in being the rich slut that all of the men who were ever rejected would love to pay back.
,,, older and wiser. I saw her on TV years ago in an interview. She had one kid at that time, I think. She said she would bring him [?] up with the right values... he would know the value of a dollar and she said other things about right and wrong etc. I've always thought she had it going on as an entertainer but her thoughts on bringing up kids and associated ethics fortified my opinions on her.
Bwitnee's lack of talent makes it obvious her producer has enough to own her. Now it's down to vertical smiles and a glass of wine behind the wheel. What a long slide from all the money earning PMS chanting on MP3 players. It's all for a limited time™ and what can the next headline grabber possibly be? We really don't need ditzes like these record company products. It's time they had tour dates worked out in Riyadh or Tehran.
Is this English?
My grammer is terrible, and I still can't figure out what Midler is trying to say. Taken the other side?
This is funny!
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