Bette Midler
August, 1973
bright-eyed and bushy-headed"Why don't you write a book about how everybody mistreated you just because Love Story was so successful?" said Gene Shalit rhetorically--and sardonically--to Erich Segal, his interview guest on NBC's Today show. Newest--and feistiest--regular on the show's panel, Shalit earned his job as Joe Garagiola's replacement by logging three years as that morning program's irreverent book editor. Though he protests that exposure "three days a week for 70 seconds...
