Half a century into her career, Bette Midler continues to prove that anything you can do, she can do better. At 78, she’s won four Golden Globes, three Grammys, three Emmys, two Tonys, and a BAFTA—and she’s still working. Now she’s starring as a bride-to-be in the new comedy The Fabulous Four, which sees college best friends, played by Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Megan Mullally, make a journey to Key West, Florida, for the big day. Midler shares her unfiltered thoughts on traveling.
But first, a note from the woman herself: “Let me just say, for the record, that I hate the stress that accompanies air travel. There must be a committee somewhere that meets regularly to decide what new thing they can do to the public that will make them even more miserable than they already are. No matter who you are, you’re going to feel the crush of humanity, and it’s just crazy how many of us are all at the airport at the same time, all in line struggling to board and run away or run to. In the best movie I ever made, The Rose, I uttered the immortal line ‘Where’s everybody going?’ And a more trenchant question was never howled fruitlessly at the sky.”
