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4Holiday Gift Cuide '91The Daily Tar HeelMonday, December 9, 1991 Midler riding high on success of all-female production company The Associated Press Amid the determinedly male movie world, one company stands out like a beacon in the Hollywood sky: All Gi Productions. The president: Bette Midler. Is this a payback for decades ol macho dominance? U off any footlong or lorgc salad 'Witt the purchase ol a medium loll drink. One coupon per customer per visit. Entires Dee. 31. 1991 mm Timberlyne Shopping Center 2:00PM-9i30Pf,1 967-7771 WE DELIVER! OnOff Campus "That's right," declares the president with a mischievous smile. "You know what they say about payback: It's a bitch." She describes the origin of the name: "We were there in the conference room, and we were all girls. We kind of liked that name because it had a certain arro gance to it that we felt we needed be cause we were so brand new in this game. We really didn't know how the game worked. We found out soon enough. Also, we wanted a sense of humor, a little wit. We didn't want to be just 'Gigantic Pictures' or 'Magnificent Pictures." We didn't want anything ab stract. We wanted to let people know who we really were." All Girl made its debut with the suc cessful "Beaches," co-starring Midler and Barbara Hershey and directed by Garry Marshall. Now the company has produced "For the Boys," a half-century panorama of show business with GREAT U 4 : Wigwam socks Mini Mag Lite Swiss Army Classic Sierra Club calendar Hats and gloves M TRAIL SHOP s ui.k'r$3 Woo Inch and Paiagonu shins North Face day pack Patagonia capilene underwearl Woolncn sweaters Sierra Designs micro lile shell Swiss buck knife Paiagonu snap-T and synclulla jackets ThormaRest mattress MSR stove North Face duffle bag Vasque Clanon hiking boots Now carrying children's outdoor wear Gift certificates available Let us ship your gift for Christmas'. 308 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N.C (919) 929-7626 Mon., Tues., Fri 10-7; Wed, Thurs. 104; Sat. 10-6; Sua 1-5 Free Parking Providing 20 years of service to you! Midler and James Caan as partners who entertain the troops in three wars. The 20th Century Fox film was directed by Mark Rydell, who also served as execu tive director. Midler is riding high after a tumble that seemingly wiped her out of a film career. Her cinematic debut came in 1 979 with a corrosive portrait of a Janis Joplin-style rock singer in "The Rose," also directed by Rydell. Her perfor mance garnered her an Academy A ward nomination as best actress. What happened next? "Nothing," she says. "I didn't get any other pictures. I couldn't figure it out. I didn't know if (producers) thought I was demented, that I really was that character and perhaps had died, or if they thought that was the only part I could play. Whatever they felt, no other pictures came my way for a long, long time. My agent at the time said if I didn't make another picture, they would for get that I ever made a picture at all." She was persuaded to appear in the well-named "Jinxed," about which she had a bitter and public feud with the late director Don Siege). A rough patch fol lowed until Walt Disney Co. hired her, at a much-reduced salary, for "Down and Out in Beverly Hills." She contin ued to work at the studio with other (SO 5 E5P 942-2323 942-2323 1214RaleighM "ZIP 1214 Raleigh Rd. (next to Harris Teeter) (next to Harris Teeter) LATE NIGHT EXAM BUSTER 1 Small Pizza Cheese & 1 Item plus an order of our famous Ollie bread sticks plus 2 16 oz. Fepsis offer only good after 8:00 pm Expires 1231 $698 SUBS ( Cj )) SALADS J) 942-2323 Sf" 942-2323 1214RaIeighRd 7ZZ 1214 Raleigh Rd. (next to Harris Teeter) (next to Harris Teeter) LATE NIGHT EXAM BUSTER 1 Medium Pizza Cheese & 3 Item plus an order of our famous Ollie bread sticks plus 2 16 oz. 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Midler grew up in Honolulu, the only Jewish girl in a multiracial neighbor hood. She still feels her Hawaiian roots: "It's called the aloha spirit. A real kind ness, a real tenderness toward other people toward other Hawaiians, let me amend that. Did I leam survival? No. They didn't do so well in that arena. I think I got that from my folks. They were from the jungles of Jersey." She studied drama at the University of Hawaii, and a small role in the 1966 film "Hawaii" brought her to Los Ange les for interior filming. She soon de parted for New York, where she ap peared in "Fiddler on the Roof and began making her name known in night clubs. Then came the show business onslaught that climaxed with "The Rose." "For the Boys" marks the first all-out musical since her film debut. ("Beaches" was a drama with songs.) Whatever happened to the movie musi cal? "Musicals fell out of favor, some time in the late '60s," she said. "The people who really knew how to make them were all passing away. 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