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 Jaeleigh
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| posted: 6/27/2008 at 7:23:13 PM ET
In case anyone hasn't seen it, someone posted a video on youtube of Bernadette singing "Look for the Silver Lining" ... From the date, I belive she was about 23 at the time. Just fyi
Jessica
Look For The Silver Lining
| Karen
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Aw, that would melt the heart of a gargoyle.
|  aajanachle
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I love it.
Bernadette Peters Rules!!!!!!!!
|  leebee
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| posted: 6/29/2008 at 8:55:31 AM ET
Sounding fantastic.
Costume makes me laugh though - she looks like she might suddenly pull an apple pie out of a wood stove for a Mrs. Paul's commercial.
| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 7/3/2008 at 6:29:03 PM ET
Just saw this video for the first time today, Bernadette was such a great singer, even at that early age.
I'm sorry, I don't know the background to the TV show she was in at the time, but that ridiculous costume she's wearing just reminds me of that awful Texas cult which has been in the news recently.
"There’s a lot in the world for us to turn our attention to — helping people, helping animals, and helping animals help people." ... Bernadette Peters, August, 2007
| Karen
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I'm not sure where that clip was from--possibly the Carol Burnett show, but she sang the same song in a similar fashion on the Ed Sullivan program around the same time. Here's a link to a past thread where we discussed it.
Bernadette in a previous life.
| Karen
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I'm just speculating, but I think part of the idea with TV producers back then was that Bernadette was meant to be some kind of antidote for the mass audience to all those "damn hippies." Here was a young girl who was old-fashioned and nice, not walking around in tie-dyed t-shirts and torn bell-bottoms with peace insignias. So being as unimaginative as TV producers always were and always will be, they decided to intensify her wholesome image as far as they could, taking it into the realm of the ridiculous. And, of course, Bernadette, being a complete unknown at the time, was utterly at their mercy as far as how she would be presented on network television. Thus, voila! We have Bernadette as walking/talking caricature of the 1950s girl next door (in a very small town).
| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 7/4/2008 at 7:23:42 AM ET
Thanks for the link. Well, I'm amazed. It sounds as though it wasn't a costume and she actually chose to wear that dress. I have to confess that I do have a photo of myself wearing a similair dress, except mine had a veil. I was seven, and it was my first holy communion dress. 
"There’s a lot in the world for us to turn our attention to — helping people, helping animals, and helping animals help people." ... Bernadette Peters, August, 2007
| Karen
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LOL! Yeah, you're right it does look like a first communion dress of that era.
|  Danielle
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| posted: 7/5/2008 at 5:17:38 PM ET
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Sounding fantastic.
Costume makes me laugh though - she looks like she might suddenly pull an apple pie out of a wood stove for a Mrs. Paul's commercial.
 funny.
bernadette kisses regis.
regis flinches.
"regis you're atwitter"
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