![]() ![]() Two of the babies were swapped at birth due to a mix-up at the hospital, meaning that grown-up Sadie (Bette Midler) and Rose (Lily Tomlin) live in New York, running Moramax, the megacorporation they inherited from their father, while unbeknownst to them, their identical twins Sadie (Midler) and Rose (Tomlin) live in the town they were born, Jupiter Hollow, which is about to be sold off and strip-mined. ![]() Two pairs of identical twins were born in the same rural hospital in West Virginia at the same time, one set to a rich New York couple and the other two a poor West Virginian couple. The premise of Big Business sounds like it would be impossible to pull off in a way that would hold together under the strain of thinking about it for ten seconds. This is not least because no-one remembers the 1988 Bette Midler/Lily Tomlin farce Big Business – except for maybe Jordan Peele – but they should, because Big Business is great: a tightly constructed, very funny comedy of errors about class and corporate America. But no-one has said anything about how it’s basically a horror version of the 1988 Bette Midler/Lily Tomlin farce Big Business, which it totally is. Much has been said about its many references to other films, from Jaws to The Goonies to CHUD. Even something as simple as its title can be read two ways: us and US. Us is incredibly dense with allusion and multiplicity of meaning. The best comparison I can make is that it made me feel kind of like how The Shining makes me feel, and The Shining might be my favourite horror film ever, so. It’s one of those horror films that I can imagine watching over and over, becoming richer without ever becoming less scary. Most recently, she toured with her sassy "Kiss My Brass" show, and is promoting her album "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook".Jordan Peele’s Us was one of the best films of 2019: the scale of its ambition dwarfed Get Out, Peele’s directorial debut, and it hits all its marks. Apart from her four Grammy awards, Bette Midler has also won four Golden Globes, one Tony Award, and three Emmy Awards, plus she has sold in excess of 15 million albums worldwide. Bette matched feisty James Caan in the WWII drama For the Boys (1991), made a dynamic trio with Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton in The First Wives Club (1996), was back on screen with DeVito for the tepid comedy Drowning Mona (2000) and turned up in the glossy remake of The Stepford Wives (2004). She played an obnoxious wife who was the victim of a kidnap plot by her scoundrel husband, played by Danny DeVito, in Ruthless People (1986), was pursued by CIA and KGB spies in Outrageous Fortune (1987), played mismatched twins with Lily Tomlin in Big Business (1988) and shone in the tear-jerker Beaches (1988). In 1986, director Paul Mazursky cast Midler opposite Nick Nolte and Richard Dreyfuss in the hilarious Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), and so began a string of very funny comedic film roles. After minor roles in several film/TV productions, she surprised all with her knockout performance of a hard-living rock-and-roll singer (loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin) in The Rose (1979), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her first album was "The Divine Miss M" released in November 1972, followed by the self-titled "Bette Midler" released in November 1973, both of which took off up the music charts, and Bette's popularity swiftly escalated from there. Midler studied drama at the University of Hawaii and got her musical career started by performing in gay bathhouses with piano accompaniment from Barry Manilow. ![]() Her parents, originally from New Jersey, were both from Jewish families (from Russia, Poland, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire). She is the daughter of Ruth (Schindel), a seamstress, and Fred Midler, a painter. Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945. Multi Grammy Award-winning singer/comedienne/author Bette Midler has also proven herself to be a very capable actress in a string of both dramatic and comedic roles. ![]()
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