JAMES ENDRST Hartford Courant
She's the mother of all stage mothers: Rose, a single mom hellbent on turning her two young daughters into stars during the waning days of vaudeville. But in the musical "Gypsy,"shegets top billing. Rosalind Russell played her in the 1962 movie; Bette Midler in the 1993 ...
Gypsy: Directed by Emile Ardolino. With Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb, Edward Asner. Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and