Every blowsy harridan who ever beset W.C. Fields; character actresses like Gale Sondergaard or Minna Gombell, who could always be counted on to make big trouble in»30s films; even Lucile LaVerne, the moustached hag who made the Gish sisters» lives
hell in Orphans
of the
Storm and served as the model for the witch in Disney's
Snow White - none
of these is an evil patch on Midler here.
So did some numb Green Bay Packer fans who watched their team get frozen out
of the NFL playoffs by the San Francisco 49ers in near - zero temperatures, Israeli residents confined to homes by three feet
of snow that fell in Jerusalem as the worst winter
storm in decades swept through the Middle East, and a group
of Australian climate scientists
hell - bent upon documenting global warming aboard a Russian ship that got dangerously trapped in Antarctic sea ice.