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BETTE MIDLER IS THE BOSS • Midler hangs up her Hocus Pocus 2 witch’s wardrobe for fully modern apparel in the upcoming Sitting in Bars with Cake (Sept. 8 on Prime Video). Inspired by true events, it’s a celebration of female friendship told through the lives of BFFs Jane (Yara Shahidi) and Corinne (Odessa A’zion). Corinne convinces her shy friend to commit to a year of baking cakes and bringing them to bars with the goal of meeting people—until a life-altering diagnosis changes everything. Following are highlights from the life of the Divine Miss M, 77, who appears as Corinne’s boss-mentor Benita, a talent agent with a warm heart.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE • The “Come to My Window” Grammy Award-winning singer, 62, took a break from writing songs to pen her second memoir, Talking to My Angels (Sept. 4). In the 20 years since Etheridge’s first account of her life, she became a mother again, recorded 11 albums, toured the world, won an Oscar, discovered her true love, survived breast cancer and the death of her son Beckett to opioid addiction, and underwent a spiritual awakening. She chronicles it all on the pages of Talking to My Angels, as well as the lessons she has learned.

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OPA IT’S A BIG, FAT GREEK WORLD • NIA VARDALOS TALKS ABOUT GROWING UP GREEK, FINDING HER HAPPY PLACE, BEING A SINGLE MOM AND MAKING THE THIRD CHAPTER OF THE BIGGEST, FATTEST, GREEK-EST ROM-COM OF ALL TIME.

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