Bette Midler paid tribute to her friend and The First Wives Club co-star Diane Keaton . The actress died at the age of 79.

“The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died. I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me,” Midler wrote in an Instagram post, which included a black-and-white photo of Keaton. “She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star.”

She added: “What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”

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Midler and Keaton starred along with Goldie Hawn in 1996’s The First Wives Club , with the stars portraying divorcées who wonderfully, wickedly take revenge on their terrible former spou

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