For Bette Midler, Diane Keaton will repeatedly be a buddy first.

In the wake of Keaton's death at age Seventy nine, the First Other halves Club actress shared an heartfelt tribute to her leisurely costar

“The lustrous, shapely, unparalleled Diane Keaton has died,” Midler wrote on Instagram Oct. 11. “I cannot present you how unbearably unhappy this makes me. She used to be hilarious, a total normal, and totally with out guile, or any of the competitiveness one would possess expected from this kind of megastar.”

The Seventy nine-year-extinct added, “What you saw used to be who she used to be…oh, la, lala!”

Midler and Keaton famously teamed up onscreen alongside Goldie Hawn in 1996's First Other halves Club, which centered spherical the bond between three divorcées. When the trio had been honored with a Females in Film Crystal Award for his or her performance, Midler referred to Keaton as her “dear buddy.”

“In my coronary heart of hearts, I suspect this award is no longer for our work in the First Other halves Club resulting from it is so lustrous”, she said while accepting the award, “but moderately resulting from everybody used to be so overjoyed that three actresses of a particular age serene possess what it takes to screech a 100-million-greenback-image finest tackle the testosterone tyrants.”