For Bette Midler, a greatest-hits package, with its sweeping portrait of her 21-year career, bares all. Her genre-hopping diversity, from covering John Prine (''Hello in There''), to campier, kitschier fare (''Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy''), to pop croons like ''The Rose,'' makes her popular with a broad audience — indeed, she was Johnny Carson's last late-night guest. But Experience the Divine also evens her out to a kind of fuzzy blandness. What's divinity got to do with it? Midler is just one of the hardest-working general-purpose pop divas around. B-
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