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Jerry dates Bette Midler's understudy, who gets the call after George injures Bette; Elaine suspects she's being insulted in Korean.

ENTERTAINMENT INCLUDES COMEDY, MUSIC, LASER SHOW, FIREWORKS MIKE WEATHERFORD MORE COLUMNS Kathy Griffin, left, and Bette Midler are shown in Midler's gift shop at Caesars Palace in a scene from Griffin's "My Life on the D-List." Jeff Dunham will perform at Caesars Palace today and Saturday, while Mike Epps, below, leads "Uncle Sam's Comedy Jam" ...

An emotional ballad that's a heartfelt tribute to the people who uncomplainingly remain in the backstage - helping, encouraging and supporting despite their contributions almost always going unnoticed by others - while you bask in all the glory on the stage of life.

Four-time Grammy winner and self- confessed glitz queen Bette Midler enters an East Harlem lot at her characteristic hip-swaying march, swapping the outsize pink feather headdress of her Las Vegas show for gardening gloves.

Directed by: Nick Gomez Starring: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner & Marcus Thomas Drowning Mona is a black comedy with a "Whodunnit?" theme.

W hen I last went to Las Vegas almost four years ago, I made a list of reasons I'd never return: expensive; garish; badly dressed people; horrible traffic; too many ventriloquist, impressionist and magician shows; taxes and service charges on everything ; the feeling you're being had.

The dramedy "Away We Go" marks the Maya Rudolph's first major feature-film lead, as half of a couple on the road in search of a place to call home.

Bette Midler admits it takes a little work to keep her show on the Las Vegas Strip fresh a ' especially now that it's hit its 100th performance.

From rousing waiata to funky barbershop tunes, high school choirs brought their own flavour to the Regent on Broadway's Big Sing.

Whatever happened to that damn Jeff Buckley biopic that was announced years ago that seems to have gone nowhere? It's hard to keep track of the time-line, but a second attempt to pull off a film was announced in the trades in 2006 if that gives you any indication.

The ice cream concoction will be on sale for all of June at the Strip front branch of the New York dining hotspot.

Comments Ever since President Obama cited Las Vegas trips as an example of corporate greed run amok, 340 planned conventions and business meetings have been canceled there, costing the gambling mecca 36,700 hotel-room nights and an estimated $130 million in non-gambling revenue.

And by "beard" of course we're referring to 50 Cent's butch, new facial hair. The campy gangsta rap superstar shows off his new beard ... and the fabulous Better Midler at last night's benefit for the Divine Miss M's New York Restoration Project.

Last night, I schlepped all the way up to a part of the city Lin-Manuel Miranda is quite familiar with-Ft. Tryon Park, in Washington Heights.

Barry won his statues back then, before he found stardom with Bette Midler, for Band-Aid and State Farm commercials.

You probably don't think of Chris Barron, lead singer of the Spin Doctors, playing penny slots and watching men joust at "Tournament of Kings." But Barron is like a secret shopper for the city, occasionally popping into Vegas on his own dime and eschewing VIP services, making him a sort of one-man focus group on what's good and bad on his tourism ...

Bette Midler and Allison Rockefeller both work hard to ensure the vitality of parks.

Bette Midler has admitted that she would like to offer Jennifer Aniston some dating tips.

Bette Midler has advised Jennifer Aniston to date a racing driver. The 'Wind Beneath My Wings' singer is keen for the former 'Friends' star to find love and has drawn up a list of characteristics her new man must have.

Bette Midler performs in "The Showgirl Must Go On" at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.