Bette & Barbara old acquaintances in 1988's "Beaches!"

I have sufficient.

Oh, honey -- I never watched it the first time.

I remember in her review Pauline Kael said that Mayim Bialik seemed like she had been specially created to play an 11-year-old Bette Midler.

Mayim remembers...

Have never seen, it's on Tubi but I don't have interest. I hated that song too

I watched "Beaches" mainly because it was on Tubi and out of curiosity. One of the much needed plusses of "Beaches" is several well-done musical numbers by Bette, including this one...

Not a bad movie, but the Oh! Industry sequence is so completely out of place given the timeframe.

Bette was expecting to get an oscar nomination for the movie, and agreed to take part in Allan Carr's infamous oscar opening. When the nominations were announced and she was snubbed, she pulled out. Lily Tomlin wound up doing her part.

Mayim Bialik was also supposed to take part in it.

No, the soundtrack was great.

[quote]Bette was expecting to get an oscar nomination for the movie

SHE WAS ? SERIOUSLY ? WHY ?

I loved the Oh Industry, but it does come out of nowhere.

Still, nothing can compare to Otto Titsling and his travails with patent thieves and big titted divas taking swan dives into the orchestra pit.

Lainie Kazan as Bette's mother was an eye roll, they looked more like sisters, given they were five years apart.

I watched it a thousand times as a child. I probably watched it again a few years ago and part of me no longer understood their connection.

They met once as kids on the beach, then became pen pals and didn’t reconnect until a brief post-college stint as roommates. Then after that, had a bad weekend visit as married women and didn’t reconnect until Hillary was pregnant. That was for a few months and then CC left to become a big star and didn’t come back until Hillary got sick.

The movie acts like they’re soulmates but they disappeared for years and barely knew each other’s lives outside of letters that they weren’t even reading cause they were mad at each other most of the time.

If you approach the movie as a moral of don’t take your friends for granted and don’t let distance, ego, and pride chip away at relationships until it’s too late, then the movie makes sense.

But I don’t think that was the point of the movie.

Bette wanted Shelley Winters to play her Mother.

Barbara Hershey can’t even yodel!

Beaches has more wigs than Wigstock!

1988 was pretty stacked. Jodie Foster, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, and Melanie Griffith were locks. Maybe she could have thought she would have Sigourney Weaver's spot but she was a double nominee that year so it seems unlikely.

I think she is very good in the movie. Also how was Wind Beneath My Wings not a song nominee?

This thread is full of hand walking queers

Those NY tenements got cold at night. They did plenty of scissoring to keep warm.

R16 I think cause it’s not an original song, it’s a cover.

So because of this thread I decided to watch it right now.

Hillary just upped and fucked CC’s crush and she didn’t feel THAT bad about it.

Hillary's daughter was such a little cunt.

Too bad Mrs. Patsy Ramsey,formerly of Boulder CO didn't get a crack at her.

The “Oh, Industry” sequence is laughably bad.

[quote] Hillary's daughter was such a little cunt.

I felt so bad for her when she finds her mother collapsed and screams "I don't know what to do!" I really start bawling when Wind Beneath My Wings starts.

It's schlock but I love it, especially CC's throwaway "Sexual attraction has nothing to do with character, unless you're Eleanor Roosevelt" line.

As trite as the story is, there's something about the movie I find appealing, including the trite story.

There's something about that kind of friendship that I connect with, mostly because I don't think I've ever had that kind of friend.

It's never too late. I didn't meet my forever friend until I was 40.