Talk about a Bali Ha'i.

After a performance as Bloody Mary in "South Pacific" at Lincoln Center this week, Island actress-singer Loretta Ables Sayre said, the house manager knocked on her dressing room door, announcing "someone here who would like to meet you." She opened the door, and Bette Midler was standing there.

"She had heard that I was from Hawai'i and had just seen the show and loved it," said Ables Sayre, who, like the Divine Miss M, graduated from Radford High.

"I can't believe that I was talking pidgin in my dressing room with Bette Midler," said Ables Sayre. "How great is that? I was just watching her in 'The Rose' the other night on TV, and marveling at how wonderful she was in that movie. Who could know that 48 hours later, she would be standing in front of me? She really is divine."

— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment writer

BACHELOR CHALKS UP ANOTHER EX

Lt. Andy Baldwin, star of "The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman," must continue his quest for true love.

The Navy doctor and his girlfriend Marla Maples have split because of his recent move to Washington, D.C., reports Usmagazine.com.

"The big move coupled with the long-distance relationship wasn't working for us, so I decided we were better off as friends," Baldwin says.

Baldwin, 31, had been stationed at Pearl Harbor. In D.C., he will work as an advocate for Navy Medicine.

His engagement to his final "Bachelor" pick, Tessa Horst, broke off in August 2007. After he returned from a mission to Palau late last year, he began seeing Maples, 44.

TINA TURNER OFF TO TOUR THIS FALL

Tina Turner, 68, who appeared with Cher, 61, yesterday on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," says she will launch her first concert tour in eight years Oct. 1 in Kansas City.

Things got a little bleak when Winfrey, 54, asked the women how they're handling growing older.

Cher seemed outraged: "I think it (stinks)."

Turner went with denial: "That number doesn't mean a thing. It just doesn't."

MINNIE DRIVER STILL MUM ON DAD

Musician Craig Zolezzi is not the father of Minnie Driver's baby. So says the "Riches" star.

The actress-singer, six months pregnant, tells London's the Independent that the father is English and is "sort of in the same business." Driver, in England to promote her "Seastories" CD said she has no plans to wed.

"I want to shield the baby's dad as much as I can because it wasn't his choice to get roped into all this stuff," Driver said.