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Experience the Divine

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Lead Performance: Bette Midler; Genre: Reissues

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By Josef Woodard

BETTE MIDLER Experience the Divine (Atlantic) 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 it 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- -Josef Woodard

Posted Jul 30, 1993

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