Divine Madness!

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Summary: The Divine Miss M at Her Best
Review: The Divine Miss M was Bette Midler's follow up the hugely successful The Rose. Its a concert film from mid 1980 that was part of her Divine Madness tour. The concert truly is a cinematic experience, telling you a story and lifting you up and down. The movie setlist includes Big Noise From Winetka, Paradise, The Rose, Fire Down Below, Stay With Me, My Way, Chapel of Love, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, E Street Shuffle, You Can't Always Get What You Want, and ends with I Shall Be Released. Ofcourse peppered throught the movie is Bette's unmistakable talent and humour with many comic relief moments including her lounge act, Deloris Delogo The Toast of Chicago, a washed up mermaid in a wheel chair, and a few great R rated Sophie Tucker Jokes. The only flaw is the wacked out editing which took away the songs from the original theatrical release, Shiver Me Timbers, and Rainbow Sleeve. Also edited are Mother's Eyes, and Friends from the orignal tour setlist. If you like Bette Midler, then you'll surely experience the intensity and energy of this concert.

Rating:
Summary: The Divine Miss M at Her Best
Review: The Divine Miss M was Bette Midler's follow up the hugely successful The Rose. Its a concert film from mid 1980 that was part of her Divine Madness tour. The concert truly is a cinematic experience, telling you a story and lifting you up and down. The movie setlist includes Big Noise From Winetka, Paradise, The Rose, Fire Down Below, Stay With Me, My Way, Chapel of Love, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, E Street Shuffle, You Can't Always Get What You Want, and ends with I Shall Be Released. Ofcourse peppered throught the movie is Bette's unmistakable talent and humour with many comic relief moments including her lounge act, Deloris Delogo The Toast of Chicago, a washed up mermaid in a wheel chair, and a few great R rated Sophie Tucker Jokes. The only flaw is the wacked out editing which took away the songs from the original theatrical release, Shiver Me Timbers, and Rainbow Sleeve. Also edited are Mother's Eyes, and Friends from the orignal tour setlist. If you like Bette Midler, then you'll surely experience the intensity and energy of this concert.

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Summary: Fabulous!!
Review: The only thing I can say is that Bette is fabulous and I just can't get over how well she did!! I am just speechless!

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Summary: Fun, But Not Bette at Her Best
Review: This concert film of Bette Midler, filmed not long after her success in the movie "The Rose", is okay, but definitely lacking. Much of the program is devoted to Midler's attempt to do rock, a phase she thankfully passed through. Her trademark bawdy humor is here, but some of it falls flat or was done better in her original HBO special (not yet available on DVD, sigh). On the plus side, her live versions of "The Rose", "Chapel of Love", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", and "Do You Want to Dance" are enjoyable. Picture and sound quality are fair to good.It's a passable, inexpensive disc that will do till Bette's orginal HBO special comes to DVD.

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Summary: Fun, But Not Bette at Her Best
Review: This concert film of Bette Midler, filmed not long after her success in the movie "The Rose", is okay, but definitely lacking. Much of the program is devoted to Midler's attempt to do rock, a phase she thankfully passed through. Her trademark bawdy humor is here, but some of it falls flat or was done better in her original HBO special (not yet available on DVD, sigh). On the plus side, her live versions of "The Rose", "Chapel of Love", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", and "Do You Want to Dance" are enjoyable. Picture and sound quality are fair to good.It's a passable, inexpensive disc that will do till Bette's orginal HBO special comes to DVD.

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Summary: D-I-V-I-N-E Performance! A Must For a Bette Fan!
Review: This is Bette Midler at her best. This DVD shows why she is one of music's greatest Diva's! Combining her classic mixture of Broadway, Rock, Pop, and Comedy, Bette will have you rolling in the aisles with her Sophie Tucker impersonation/jokes, Delores DeLago (the mermaid in a wheelchair) Lounge Act and stand-up comedy - keep in mind it isn't rated G! Her band is great, and her onstage presence is as vibrant, upbeat and show-stopping as ever! Totally a high energy show and a great prelude to the career that we know her for today! The audience is certainly pleased, especially with her numbers from "The Rose" which was just completed when this performance took place. Although Bette was battling the flu during this show, you would NEVER know it. THAT, my friend, is a true star. She is absolutely awesome and her voice is GREAT, although keep in mind that this was filmed in the early 80's before THX digital sound. The sound isn't bad, it's just not surround sound quality. This is a must have for ANY Bette fan! After you see this, you'll understand why she is so D-I-V-I-N-E!

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Summary: Bette at her risque best
Review: This is Bette Midler at her outrageous best, doing all her early songs with lots of hilarious comedy inbetween. My favorite is the risque mermaid scene with Delores Delago, the Sensation of Chicago. It may be a bit dated, but it still raises a lot of belly laughs.

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Summary: Bette Before She Became More PC
Review: This is early Bette Midler, before she became a movie star and when she was known for being raunchy instead of toned down. For these reasons, I really enjoyed this concert plus her performances of all of my favorite songs of hers that preceded 1980. This was also my favorite musical period for her work. Seated in her mermaid costume, as shown on the front of the container, epitomizes that early, earthy Midler humor and outrageousness that characterize her early career. For anyone who never saw early Midler, it is hard to see how you can wrong with this DVD.

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Summary: You will pee your pants!!!
Review: This is hillarious. OK,her voice was not the greatest in the movie, but I personally thought that that made it even better. As she belts out many electrifying numbers such as: "Big Noise From Winnetka," "Paradise," "Stay With Me," The Rose," and the hillarious version of "Chapel of Love," along with many others. I love it when she comes out in the wheelchair as a mermaid, (dig the coconuts) Delores Delargo, the Toast of Chicago. She is foul, voulger, trashy, and Divine!
She is so funny! I love the "E-Street Blues" segment along with the part where she is trashing the Europeans. Eggs will be laid tonight, or and other night or day that you choose to watch this.

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Summary: "Eggs Will Be Laid Tonight"
Review: Too bad that Her Majesty is no longer this politically incorrect. She doesn't belt tunes like this anymore either, so I can recommend this to all who have never seen her early career. The quality of the video is mediocre, but the sound quality is above average. Check out those coconuts!