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 Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/10/2012 at 2:46:58 PM ET
Interview Aug 10, 2012, Kansas City Star):
“I was on the road when I was 13,” she said. “I didn’t really like being on the road. I really liked being home. I still don’t care for the road that much. But when I was 17 I realized that I really loved the creative process, the outlet, the acting, where the emotions go — and so then I started getting more serious about the whole thing.”
Peters said she had no major Broadway shows in the pipeline. And she sounded like that was OK.
“Well, I did two in a row for three years, eight times a week,” she said. “I’m enjoying my free time right now. I call it my free time even though I do the concerts. But they’re just a joy to do and a real privilege to get up there and choose what I want to sing and sing songs I just love. So I enjoy doing that right now and I enjoy more time to myself.” That’s another way of saying she’s spending quality time with her beloved dogs — Stella, a female pit bull, and Charlie, a mix who looks like Tramp in the Disney film “Lady and the Tramp.”
Her dog Charlie looks a lot like her dog Kramer, who passed away a few years ago. (??) She traveled all the way to Dalhart, Texas, to adopt Charlie from a nonprofit shelter called Dawgs because he looked so much like Kramer. Pit bulls often are trained for fighting and considered by some people to be inherently dangerous, but Peters said Stella is the ultimate lap dog."
Interview, Aug 10, 2012
The business about when Kramer died is confusing to me, but the news here is that Charlie has a good home and Bernadette has a full house!
**I added a sub-title to this post today, to signal that there is something special in this interview. (Aug 11)
|  moljul
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| posted: 8/10/2012 at 4:10:43 PM ET
I think it is just a situation where the writer got the facts incorrect. Remember when an article said Bernadette had a pit bull named Piggy when it was actually Stella being called a nickname because she looks like Piglet from Winnie the Pooh?
Wasn't it Playbill who reported Kramer's VERY RECENT passing? I trust them more when it comes to getting facts and quotes correct from Bernadette.
"Particular mention must be made of Bernadette Peters, who turns up briefly in a sort of sparkly Glinda the Good costume. She's the reluctant muse sent to help Alice with her writing. The muse is dressed like Oz, sounds like Queens and behaves like a bored student adviser." Alice Film Review, The New York Times, December 25, 1990
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/10/2012 at 4:32:55 PM ET
No, it was the New York Daily News, which I linked to here:
Kramer
[Oh, are you back? is your computer prob solved?]
| moljul
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| posted: 8/10/2012 at 4:46:51 PM ET
No. The problem is still not solved on my home computer. I'm at this temp job (where I can access the site) for a few weeks. After that I might be gone for a long time again. 
I've trying loading the page in other browsers, etc. but nothing seems to work. 
"Particular mention must be made of Bernadette Peters, who turns up briefly in a sort of sparkly Glinda the Good costume. She's the reluctant muse sent to help Alice with her writing. The muse is dressed like Oz, sounds like Queens and behaves like a bored student adviser." Alice Film Review, The New York Times, December 25, 1990
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/17/2012 at 6:50:12 AM ET
Another interview
"I recently adopted a new puppy named Charlie because my beloved Kramer passed away at 16," she said. "I got him because Stella was grieving. I guess I was, too." Peters is bicoastal with homes in both New York and Los Angeles. But she jokes that you can easily tell that she’s really an East-Coaster. "I live both places, but Stella and Charlie live in New York," she said of her pets. "Home is where the dogs are."
The Wichita Eagle, Aug 16, 2012
| Jean
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Kramer and Bernadette:
Bernadette and her husband Michael adopted Kramer from the city shelter in 1998.
New York Magazine,
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/17/2012 at 1:02:04 PM ET
Radio interview with Bernadette on KCUR.org (Aug 16, 2012):
radio interview
32 minutes
| Jean
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Review, Kansas City concert (Aug 18, 2012):
"Peters, who was born when most people still consumed music from 78-rpm records, took the stage in a clinging, sequined, generously low cut plum dress with a split that allowed the audience repeated views of her left leg. The lady must be eating right because she looked fabulous. With her trademark shock of curly red hair, she looked exactly the way we expect her to look — like Bernadette Peters, a timeless figure who sings as well as she ever did and moves with youthful energy.
Peters included plenty of his music later in the show — “No One is Alone” and “Children Will Listen” from “Into the Woods;” “In Buddy’s Eyes” and “Losing My Mind” from “Follies;” “Johanna” from “Sweeney Todd;” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” and “Being Alive” from “Company;” “Not a Day Goes By” from “Merrily We Roll Along;” and “With So Little to Be Sure Of” from “Anyone Can Whistle.”All of these were performed impeccably, but the pair of tunes from “Follies” had the greatest impact. Peters doesn’t just stand and sing. She acts the songs. And she makes sure the meaning behind every lyric is clear and the emotion of the song touches the audience. But strictly speaking, this wasn’t a Sondheim tribute concert. Rodgers and Hammerstein were well-represented, first in an unorthodox reading of “There is Nothin’ Like a Dame” from “South Pacific.” But her performance of that show’s signature tune, “Some Enchanted Evening,” was stunning. Peters’ soulful interpretation made me feel as though I’d never heard it before. Later she threw in a nice performance of “Mr. Small” [should be "Mr. Snow"] from “Carousel.”Another highlight: Peters’ take on Peggy Lee’s version of “Fever,” the sultry ode to romantic/sexual longing that never fails to work its will on an audience. Peters performed most of the number lying on the grand piano, and it’s fair to say that the performance had the desired effect.
For an encore Peters offered one of her own compositions — “Kramer’s Song,” a sweet lullaby she wrote to accompany her children’s book, “Broadway Barks.” Peters is a passionate animal lover, and the tune reflected an emotional investment as deep as any in the concert. Her choice to leave the stage and walk through a row of patrons from one aisle to the next as she performed the song — named for her beloved dog who died — looked a little awkward. But nobody was complaining. Peters is one of those stage performers whose star power never really comes across on camera. But when she steps in front of an audience, her inner nuclear reactor kicks in. I believe that’s what we sometimes refer to as the “magic of theater.”
Kansas City Star review
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