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Show I' ' Odd couple in 6Belies9 On a hot summer day in 1957, a most remarkable and unlikely friendship began on the beach in At lantic City. Eleven-year-olds CC Bloom and Hillary Whitney were from totally different worlds. Brash and streetwise, stree-twise, New Yorker CC was on her r way to becoming a famous singing star - it was just a matter of time. Hillary, on vacation with her father ' and aunt, was a proper young lady , from San Francisco. Although the girls go their separate separ-ate ways, their one-day encounter is the beginning of a bond that grows stronger over the years. Through -the power of letters and photo-graphs, photo-graphs, the two strikingly different women share each outer's hopes, dreams, and frustrations, building a , unique tie of loyalty and friendship which sustains them through, their marriages and careers, triumphs and disappointments, and ultimately through a crisis that tests their love and teaches mem the true meaning iof friendship. , . , '', Touchstone Pictures in association associa-tion with Silver Screen Partners IV presents ."Beaches," the new drama that features Bette Midler as .the irrepressible and saucy cabaret , singer CC Bloom, and her best friend Hillary Whitney Essex is played by Barbara Hershey. |