Title: Why Bother?
Product review: Three years since her last album, more than two since her cancelled TV series, & she has no more energy than to record 31 minutes of a huge songbook like Clooney's? I have been one of Midler's most stubborn supporters, through thick (Some People's Lives) & thin (Mud Will be Flung Tonight), since 1972 (even before the release of The Divine Miss M!), so you have to know it breaks my heart to say this: I just can't justify a full list price release that barely gets going before the project is over. Of course, I should consider Manilow as producer: the last time he produced her (1973), the result was barely 35 minutes.
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