Question: Who let Peggy Lee out of the grave to come back and perform on "American Idol" last night?
Oh. Wait. It was Bette Midler. Nevermind.
Wow. Was she bad, or what?
When Tony Bennett outsings you at 143 years old, you need to stop.
And then there were the car crashes. Bette Midler was horrendous, staggering through a tone-deaf "Wind Beneath My Wings." Someone give her a Golden Idol. (A friend text messaged: "Midler was like a housewife drunk on white-wine spritzers.")
Sorry, Bette. There's no twirling yourself out of this one.