The divine Miss Bette Midler has a bone to pick with Lady Gaga. She says Gaga stole her shtick when she rolled onto stage in a wheelchair and dressed as a mermaid in a show recently in Australia.
“I’ve been doing singing mermaid in a wheelchair since 1980,” tweeted Bette. ”You can keep the meat dress and the firecracker [breasts]. Mermaid’s mine.”
However, in a following tweet, Midler, 65, seemed to have mellowed out. “Let’s drink this over at the Emmys in September,” she wrote. “Fabulous mermaids can coexist!”
Lifting Madonna songs, stealing Midler shtick—does Gaga have any originality at all?


