Sky York Journal
For Bette Midler, Diane Keaton will always be a friend first.
In the wake of Keaton’s death at age 79, the First Wives Club actress shared an heartfelt tribute to her late costar
“The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died,” Midler wrote on Instagram Oct. 11. “I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me. She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star.”
The 79-year-old added, “What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
Midler and Keaton famously teamed up onscreen alongside Goldie Hawn in 1996’s First Wives Club, which centered around the bond between three divorcées. When the trio were honored with a Women in Film Crystal Award for their performance, Midler referred to Keaton as her “dear friend.”
“In my heart of hearts, I suspect this award is not for our work in the First Wives Club because it is so brilliant”, she said while accepting the award, “but rather because everybody was so overjoyed that three actresses of a certain age still have what it takes to deliver a 100-million-dollar-picture just like the testosterone tyrants.”
