Bette Midler and the Meanest Man in Showbiz

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Grace Cohen-Chen

Society & Culture

4.6 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A long time ago when I worked as a bartender at Radio City Music Hall, I caught the second half of a Bette Midler show, and it blew me away. More than forty years later I ran into her at a restaurant in Santa Monica and said hi. I'm thrilled that she agreed to sit down and talk to me about a couple things that have gone wrong in her storied career. Tune in to hear about workplace horrors, how being self-deprecating doesn’t make me special, and what it really means to know thyself. All hail The Divine Miss M. Follow David on Instagram at @davidduchovny. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. And if you want to continue the conversation with other listeners, join the My Lemonada community at https://lemonadamedia.com/mylemonada/ For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's morning in New York.
0:02.8	Oh, God.
0:06.2	Hey, everybody.
0:07.3	I'm Mandy Patinkin.
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0:30.3	So I'm going to meet John McNamara Mac for lunch. We shot Aquarius together. Very sharp dresser. A very picky eater, too. So we got to choose the
0:41.5	right place. We go to this place that I like that I used to, I used to always stop at this place on the way
0:46.6	back home from shooting Californication, and I'd memorize the next day's lines over my tuna burger.
0:53.3	So here I am back at this place, and I think I see Bet Midler and I say to
0:57.8	Mac, is that Bet Midler? And he says, yeah, that's Bit Middler. And I was like, ah, that looks a lot like
1:02.0	Pet Midler to me. And I have something I want to tell her. But I don't like going up to celebrities
1:07.0	because once I went up, I asked the flight attendant if I could say hi to Ringo.
1:13.3	The Ringo thing didn't go so well. And I jumped out of a cab to say hello to Muhammad Ali.
1:18.3	I did that a long, long time ago. So I don't want to bother Pet Midler at her lunch.
1:23.8	But I really want to tell her this story because I think it's something that she might like to hear
1:28.2	an experience I had watching her that was really revelatory way way long time ago when I when I used to
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