Kitty Galore (aka Bette Midler) vs. the world
Who better than Bette Midler to provide the voice of the villainous diva in Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore?
In the new 3D critter feature (in theaters on Friday) Kitty Galore was a prized long haired cat who lost all her fur in a Batman-style accident. Her owners no longer recognized her and turned her away, so she vows to destroy the human race. Only a team of professional canine and feline spies can stop her.
Bette’s bad hair days
In real life Midler can’t claim to have had such a disastrous accident, but even bad hair days make her sweat. "Something happens to my hair in real life every day and I don’t (sweat it)," she said. Rather she’s learned to roll with it, and, in typical Midler style, provided an anecdote as an explanation.
"A long time ago when I first worked in the theater, I was in Fiddler on the Roof. I came into the musical and I was just a kid. I think I was 19 or 20 or something like that. One of the girls who was in Fiddler was a brazen Puerto Rican girl and she was famous. The reason she was famous was because the opening night she had done something to her hair. She had tried to straighten her hair or something and her hair fell out, literally. And she didn’t even blink. She went out, she got a piece, she slapped it on, she went out, she gave the performance of her life. I mean, she went on and became a really famous opera singer and I never forgot that. I thought wow, check that out. She didn’t even bother. She didn’t waste any time. From that time on, I never thought twice. I just look around, grab a piece, put it on."
