Divine Madness (Bette Midler album) Side B Divine Madness (Bette Midler album) Divine Madness is an album by American singer Bette Midler and the Harlettes, released in 1980. It is a live recording taken from Midler's "Divine Madness" concert film, released the same year. The album, however, does not contain any of Midler's comedy routines and features only her musical performances from the show and it in fact only provides half of the songs that appear in the film. The original live recordings were also to a large extent edited and re-recorded in the studio for the soundtrack album. Among the tracks included are "Big
When the Emperor was Divine conclusion, the earlier pages testify to the author's lyric gifts and narrative poise". Sylvia Santiago of "Herizons" magazine described Otsuka's writing style as "scrupulously unsentimental", thus "creating a contrast to the sensitive subject matter". "" said the novel was "a meditation on what it means to be loyal to one's country and to one's self, and on the cost and the necessity of remaining brave and human". "When the Emperor was Divine" won the American Library Association's Alex Award in 2003 and also won an Asian American Literary Award. When the Emperor was Divine When the Emperor was Divine is