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 AMH
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North Carolina | posted: 1/5/2012 at 4:55:27 PM ET
Just thought I'd post a link to this blog. It has a ton of Bernadette pictures, videos, sound clips, and articles. Right now it's at 86 pages.
Bernadette Peters Blog
|  Jennifer
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CA | posted: 1/5/2012 at 10:00:21 PM ET
Isn't it great. If you join Tumblr you can "search tags" for "Bernadette Peters" and find all kinds of stuff.
| AMH
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North Carolina | posted: 1/5/2012 at 10:38:58 PM ET
Cool! I'll have to try that.
| ripley123
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11/8/2011 | posted: 1/6/2012 at 9:44:56 AM ET
Looking at those photos, I was thinking what a great role model she is for girls and young women in regards to body image. She obviously doesn't starve herself and never has that scary skeletal look or sunken cheeks or anything like that, but is known for just having consistently good eating habits and exercising (dancing, going to the gym). And she ends up just looking so much more healthy and beautiful than lots of these other celebrities who treat their bodies like garbage dumps and then go on crash diets, or who keep themselves in a state of perpetual starvation, like there's no such thing as too skinny. Of course she has some help from genes and Mother Nature, but I think she really shows us all what good health looks like.
| AMH
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North Carolina | posted: 1/6/2012 at 1:38:18 PM ET
You're so right, Ripley! As a young woman, Bernadette's demonstration of healthy eating and exercising is something I strive to mimic everyday. She is truly the quintessential model of good health.
| ripley123
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It would be so great if she did a PSA or even put up a little video on her website. If it wouldn't change what anybody did, it would at least be encouraging for young people who were making tough choices to take care of themselves instead of do whatever everybody else is doing.
| AMH
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North Carolina | posted: 1/6/2012 at 4:22:45 PM ET
I think that's a great idea! I'm actually a little surprised that she hasn't already been approached by some kind of health advocacy group to do a PSA or to take on a health ambassador role. I could certainly see her doing something like this.
| TalentGoldmine
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nyc | posted: 1/6/2012 at 5:24:32 PM ET
Bernadette is a beautiful woman with a great body-- the definition of fit and curvy. That's also why she has aged so well-- she never abused her body, and it is nice for a woman to have a little meat on them
| ripley123
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11/8/2011 | posted: 1/6/2012 at 8:21:27 PM ET
And in addition to being a good role model in terms of health, also a good role model in terms of personality. There's been a lot of attention lately in the media on bullying and female social aggression. Is anybody LESS of a bully than Bernadette Peters? My mom always used to say "You get the face you deserve." That's something else she exemplifies. She doesn't LOOK like someone whose face is always twisted into chewing people out and acting like a diva. Without naming names, one can find plenty of people even younger than her with permanent scowl and frown lines, or faces distorted by plastic surgery to hide it.
| AMH
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That's very true. I can't recall one interview of Bernadette's where she complained or had anything negative to say. She seems to be a very positive person who can always find something to smile about.
| BroadwayBabyGal
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I have never heard anyone speak negatively of Bernadette as a person. Well, except a certain someone who claims that BP stole every role from her, but she can't be taken seriously. Speaking of faces that reflect what's inside... It says a lot about BP that she never publicly speaks negatively of people.
| AMH
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North Carolina | posted: 1/7/2012 at 8:39:33 PM ET
I have never heard anyone speak negatively of Bernadette as a person. Well, except a certain someone who claims that BP stole every role from her, but she can't be taken seriously.
LOL! That's the person I had in mind when I wrote my above comment.
| Jennifer
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CA | posted: 1/7/2012 at 10:17:24 PM ET
This is from:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7520-2005Mar4?language=printer
She never says anything bad about her. If this is the article you guys are referring to:
"The subject of her contemporary Bernadette Peters comes up. Peters's last new musical opened 12 years ago.
"Well, she works, though," LuPone says. "She's played my parts. She grabbed the mantle. The Ethel mantle."
In recent seasons Peters has starred in Broadway revivals of "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Gypsy," Merman's two biggest successes. Prince says that when he heard "Annie" was being planned, "I called the producers, and I said, 'I think Patti LuPone would be just marvelous -- you didn't ask me and I'm not directing it -- but I know the material.' I didn't know Bernadette had been cast."
For LuPone, all that was tough.
"People compared me to Ethel Merman," she says. "I have that voice. And when I did 'Anything Goes' " -- another Merman show -- "that was the big comparison. And then the two Ethel roles that have gone down the pike have gone to Bernadette."
Ever been jealous of other people?
"Jealous of their opportunities," she says. "Not of people. Of their opportunities. It's heartbreaking when you're sitting at home." Very quietly: "It's really -- a drag. But not jealous of anybody. Because I'm who I am. I'm not that person."
Her face brightens. "I can look at it and be bitter and sour or I can go, 'But I'm at the Kennedy Center playing Regina in Marc Blitzstein's 'Regina.' . . . How did that happen? However it happened, I'm sure it is the culmination of everything that I've done to this point. So no regrets. The right stuff is the stuff you get."
| AMH
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North Carolina | posted: 1/7/2012 at 11:23:39 PM ET
Patti may not have necessarily made a pejorative statement toward Bernadette, but when she says, "She [Bernadette]'s played my parts," that bothers me. It's like she's saying Bernadette stole those roles from her and was undeservedly cast in them, which, of course, is not true.
The difference in Bernadette's and Patti's attitude is clear when Patti says that she's been jealous of other performers' opportunities. I imagine if an actress were cast over Bernadette, she would just say that she's very happy for that actress and hope she does well in the part, and then she would move on to her next endeavor.
That's how the interview came across to me. I'm just not a Patti fan.
| Jennifer
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CA | posted: 1/7/2012 at 11:56:53 PM ET
I think because Patti was considered to be the next Ethel Merman and Bernadette was cast in the Merman roles.
That Patti said "She [Bernadette]'s played my parts," meaning the Merman roles.
I like that Patti is very open. I read her book and she lets everything out.
| ripley123
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I really admore Patti's work too and think her personality is great. i think that for her, one of the issues might be that she was considered to be the next Ethel. I think that where Bernadette has been cast, there has been a desire to have a different take on it. And Patti did end up getting to do Gypsy. It's a dangerous thing to have a sense of entitlement.
Also, I did read an interview where Bernadette Peters mentioned that it devastated her when they picked Ann-Margret for the TV version of Dames At Sea, in the role that Bernadette originated. I think she even said that she was not even given an opportunity to audition for it. But then she went on to say that she realized that Ann-Margret had the opportunity because people in film and TV knew who she was, and nobody knew who Bernadette was. So, she packed up and moved out to California, away from her family, and started getting some film and TV work. I like that about her, she didn't complain about how the industry was, she didn't make any unflattering judgments about Ann-Margret or suggest in any way that she didn't deserve it. She just acknowledged that part of her work, if she wanted a high profile career, was to become known more widely, and so that's what she did. For someone whose image --especially then!-- was so ditzy and dippy, she was really incredibly matter-of-fact and practical about her career, or at least that's what it looks like.
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