Bette Midler Beverly Hills" (1986), "Ruthless People" (1986), "Outrageous Fortune" (1987), "Big Business" (1988), "Beaches" (1988), "Hocus Pocus" (1993), "The First Wives Club" (1996), "The Stepford Wives" (2004), and "Parental Guidance" (2012). She also starred in "For the Boys" (1991) and "Gypsy" (1993), winning two additional Golden Globes for these films and receiving a second Academy Award nomination for the former. In a career spanning almost half a century, Midler has won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and two Tony Awards. She has sold over 30 million records worldwide, and has received four Gold, three Platinum, and three
Bette Midler section read "Litter Removal Next 2 Miles, Bette Midler." The location was so prominent that it became fodder for her 1993 guest appearance on the "Simpsons" episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled", where she is seen picking up trash along a stretch of highway she has adopted, and causes car crashes for drivers who deliberately litter. In 1995, she carried the same idea to the east coast, adopting a section of the Long Island Expressway and Bronx River Parkway. Midler founded the New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in 1995, a non-profit organization with the goal of revitalizing neglected neighborhood parks in economically