European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile divine miss m her Royal badness Belle Midler is Riding High with a new movie and comedy album. By Kim Mills associated press Belle Midler has t lost any of her punch including the ones thai land below the Belt. Bui she May have to quil singing her theme song friends after certain celebrities hear her new album. The title May just say it All mud will be Flung tonight. She talked about her latest work one recent afternoon at her new York loft. There s a new movie Down and out in Beverly Hills As Well As her comedy in which recalls some of the wickedness of her Early Days when she Wise cracked to a mostly Gay audience at new York s Continental Baths. It s not a lot of mud it s just twit mud she said with a mock pout. As for having any friends left after the album s release she look a thoughtful pull on a cigarette and laughed i did t have any friends when i  from quips about Eruce Springsteen Bruce you look Good. What happened to imitations of meryl Streep s accent to merciless digs at Sally Field s screeching you like Mel Academy award acceptance speech Midler s album proves she s not Only divine she s diabolical. Actually she said everybody that i dumped on on that record i happen to like a  in fact the album is just Good foul mouthed fun and it carries a disclaimer sticker this album contains material that May be deemed offensive by Bru. Springsteen Madonna and Prince. For adults  Midler also sings several songs including a ditty about the invention of the brassiere and reprises the Sophie Tucker routines from her de tour tour of 1982-83. But what miss m was really up to in much of 1985 was shooting a movie with a few of Hollywood s bad boys appearing at benefits including the live Aid concert and getting to know her husband of one year. I finished a film with. Nick Nolle and Richard Dreyfuss and that was a great experience she said. Dick Dreyfuss was hysterically funny and charming and Nick Nolle was great too. The three of us have not the Best reputations in town. But we were Good. We were All on real Good behaviour and very supportive of one another and it was  the movie which opens Jan. 30, is a remake of the Jean Renoir classic Boudou saved from drowning with Nolle playing a bum who tries to drown himself in the swimming Pool of a Beverly Hills family. The husband Dreyfuss is having a kind of crisis and he invites the bum to stay Over much to the Chagrin of the wife and that s the character i play she said. The bum sort of turns the household inside out and gets them to take a Good hard look at the frivolity and silliness of their  what Midler liked most about making the film was getting to play a Beverly Hills society Matron. I went to Rodeo drive. I had lunch at the Bistro i shopped i had my nails done. I lived at Neiman Marcus practically she said. I really really enjoyed myself and without any guilt at All because you usually think nobody with any brain could do it for  while Midler s Post office address is Beverly Hills she really lives in Coldwater Canyon. They let you know you re on the wrong Side of the Street and i happen to be on the wrong Side of the  garbage collection in t As Classy where she lives. She has to make do with any old piece of corrugated tin while on the right Side of town they give you the nicest dumpsters you be Ever  but the tribulations of Beverly Hills living Are unimportant to Midler who said her marriage last december to Martin von Heselberg has Given her a new sense of peace. It has had a tremendous calming effect on me. He s very supportive and i be discovered that it s Nice to be supportive of someone else too which is a big step Forward she said. Von Heselberg is a commodities trader and performance artist. As Harry Kipper von Heselberg was one of the Kipper kids a duo whose act included throwing food on the audience and each other. He s not performing much anymore since his partner lives in new York. After originally meeting at a King Crimson concert an encounter she does t remember at All Midler and von Heselberg did t go out together until about to. O years later when he invited her to see a show with him. He showed up in this suit made out of possibly the loudest plaid Ever Woven. He looked like a used car Salesman on acid said Midler. And we went out and had dinner and that was  20 stripes Magazine january 2,13s6