"I'm happy to be doing this event. I've been doing them for a couple of years now, I kind of enjoy them," Bette Midler remarked on her upcoming Q-and-A appearance with the series which this year has also welcomed luminaries Betty Buckley, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keaton. "They are always different, you know," Midler continued in that inimitably vocal cadence, describing her lecture experience. "Sometimes I talk about women's health, sometimes I talk about my career, sometimes I talk about the New York Restoration Project," the organic architectural organization she's been working with for the last 20 years. "I'm sure it's going to be a good crowd and is going to be full of interesting questions. I hope that some of them will be funny!" Click here to read the full interview.

Brilliant Lecture Series, with Tenenbaum & Co. Classic Jeweler and Lynn Wyatt, presents A Conversation with Bette Midler. Tuesday, April 29, 7 p.m. Wortham Center's Brown Theater, 501 Texas Avenue. For information call 832-487-7041 or visit www.BrilliantLectures.org.