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Uie ©amecock USC Band from page 7 ( familiar ritual of waking her up. She subconsciously reaches over, switch es it off and defiantly puts her head on her pillow one last time before she be gins her day. While most students are still fast asleep, she and another 200 or so are rolling out of bed and step ping into the shower. Slowly but surely, small groups of three to five similarly dressed stu dents emerge from various dorms around campus. They’re all heading to the same place with one thought on their mind: “It’s game day, and per formance time is in a matter of hours ... Go Cocks.” “I love game day, because it’s like you’ve worked all week and now it’s time to perform. I’ve been waiting for this day all week!” Wafer said. All the time, work and effort Wafer puts into her classes and her major are well worth it. It takes a strong-heart ed lover of music and performance like her to agree to such a busy lifestyle. She’s a full-time student, an accom plished piccolo player, and a very de voted individual. Even though Wafer has lots to do all week long, she tries no to let that stop her from being a great friend and leading a very healthy, happy and fun-fdled university life. The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotlight@hotmail.com. Midler stars in new sitcom by Frazier Moore The Associated Press NEW YORK —Oh, sure. A dream job. That’s what everybody says about landing a sitcom. f Bette Midler begs to differ. “Doing a sitcom is the hardest work I’ve ever done in my life,” she says. This wisdom is not only hard-won, but also newfound. Mi dler, who had tackled virtually every other branch of show busi ness in her three decades as a star, began shooting her series in Au gust. And yes, it’s a sitcom called “Bette” in which she plays a woman, entertainer, wife and mother all very much like herself. “Bette” premieres Wednesday at 8 p.m. EDT on CBS. Like the whole country doesn’t already know. “I’m telling YOU! ” hoots Midler at the huge buildup for pos sibly this fall’s most-anticipated new series. She rolls her eyes the atrically. “Boy, ohhhh boy!” Granted a few days off from filming, she is in a Manhattan ho tel suite now, talking up her show. Not surprisingly, she reveals herself to be a dynamo, yet almost demure turned out in cardigan sweater and tweed slacks. “I’m trying to be calm, trying to stay calm,” she declares unconvincingly. On “Bette,” she stars as Bette, a multithreat entertainer who, like Midler, has a teen-age daughter (Marina Malota), a reassuring husband (Kevin Dunn) and a gal-pal-slash-manager (Joanna Gleason). James Dreyfus, as her British accompanist, completes the ensemble. | “I totally feel like Alice with her looking glass,” says Midler. “I went through the mirror to a parallel universe. I’m living two lives. There’s the ‘Real Me’ and then there’s the ‘TV Me.’ Six episodes in, it’s starting to get a little odd.” Even odder than her corresponding identities is the realm of series television that she has penetrated for the first time. “It’s so enormous, so relentless,” she confides. “The machine is so big! I’ve never met a machine like it. And I’ve done movies, records, concerts — till the machines. ” Never fear, she has a dandy rationale for having taken this big step. With her daughter Sophie headed for high school, Midler figured a sitcom would mean a regular schedule and a manageable workload, leaving plenty of time at home with her kid. i---:— This was based on the series being Filmed in New York, where Midler and her family live. At the last minute, “Bette” was shift ed to Los Angeles. “So now I’m in L.A., working like a dog, and my family is nowhere to be seen!” she roars. “Talk about the best-laid plans!” Mind you, she isn’t complaining. This isn’t even good-natured kvetching. Her little rant seems fueled by a rich blend of amaze ment, nervous energy and pride that nothing “Bette” can dish out has thrown her yet. On “Bette,” she is obliged to be brassy, loquacious, all over the place. She lampoons everything and everybody, including her self: her weight, her neuroses, her advancing years (in fact, she’s a divine 54). She does lots of physical comedy. She sings. Who knew? Being Bette on a sitcom is a huge job, even for Midler herself. “And it goes so fast,” she says. “You literally don’t know what you did until two weeks after it’s done. You think, ’What did I do that for?’ Or, ‘Hey, that really worked! Why didn’t I do more of it?”’ “The third episode I said, ‘I can’t learn any more dialogue!’ So they let me lose my voice. But then I had to express myself in pantomime, which was even harder. I said, ‘Bring back the dia logue! All is forgiven!’” She pauses to savor a laugh, then takes off again. “Whatever vanity you have — ‘But my hair! My lighting!’ — foiget it! I said, ‘Oh, but I’m a big star. They’ll doglamour light ing for me, won’t they?’ No! ‘Stand over there in the shadows and shut the (heck) up.’” The next moment she is bragging about her writers, her co stars, even her lighting man. She salutes Danny DeVito, who ap pears as himself on the first episode and asks Bette to guest star on his own prospective TV series... as his mother. Then she spins out ideas for future stories that feature more celebrities playing themselves. What about a Broken-Hearts Episode? “Everyone who got dumped this year, all the public dumpees, come on my show. Then we could have Dennis Quaid fighting Hugh Grant over Laura Dem. I could play matchmaker. “There’s a lot of silliness and a lot of bad behavior in Holly wood,” says Midler gleefully, “and I want to show it all. The spir it is willing. 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