Superfan Ramona Almirez is dreading Celine Dion's departure.
For four-plus years, Almirez has been flying from San Jose, Calif., to Las Vegas almost every week to see Dion perform "A New Day ..." at Caesars Palace.
"It's my passion," she said.
It's also a big chunk of her retirement nest egg, she said, with her front-row seats at The Colosseum going for US$ 225 each. Add airfare, tickets for friends, food and the home she bought at
Lake Las Vegas, not far from Dion's, and the cost of pursuing her passion is steep. "Let's not talk about that," said Almirez, a Johnson & Johnson executive.She surpassed 100 shows during a visit a week ago.
"I'll be in severe depression when she leaves" in December, she said.
Almirez plans to continue following Dion to her concerts when she heads out on a one-year tour. She's already got tickets to Dion's May 24-25 concert in Paris next year.
Dion welcomed Almirez backstage for champagne and cake to mark the 100th show.
[Source: LVRJ]
"They have already torn down the old home and are preparing the ground," Newell said. "They have had all the permit for a few months and have met all our land development regulations."
Newell said the home will have six bedrooms, 40 windows on the beachside and will be shaped like a cross. Other features will include an underground garage
for four vehicles, a wine cellar and an office. There will also be a US$ 1.1 million guest house with four suites, a US$ 600,000 beach cabana, parking for 14 vehicles and two
Olympic-size swimming pools.
"The underground parking garage is not unique," Newell said. "The last three or four homes we have approved have underground garages. You can do it if you are building on a dune that stands
21 feet above sea level." Dion, 39, told reporters as early as 2005, that she liked the area because of the quality of the schools in which her 6-year-old son Rene Charles would be educated. She also
made the news this week, when her song "You and I" was selected as the theme song for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
The singing star's decision to sell her and her husband's home in Jupiter and move to Jupiter Island is bringing more publicity to a community that has historically tried to avoid the limelight.
Dion is not the only celebrity to select the island as a home, but following golfer Tiger Woods' decision last year to buy a home on the island, the community has received a lot of attention.
Residents -- there are now about 700 -- managed that by controlling who would be allowed to buy on the island. In the early days, purchase of land was contingent upon acceptance of a member to
the Jupiter Island Club. A person might buy land on the island, but would not find a friendly community.
[Source: TCPalm]
(8:00 p.m. GMT) Il nuovo album in francese di Celine Dion , "D'elles",
scende dal secondo al QUARTO posto della classifica degli album più venduti questa settimana in Francia.
Questa settimana le vendite dell'album sono pressoché invariate rispetto alla settimana scorsa: 17.800 copie, per un totale di 134.800
copie vendute in quattro settimane. Al primo posto si classifica l'album del cantante francese Johnny Hallyday: "La Cigale"
che vende 21.300 copie e al secondo posto "Inventaire" di Christophe Willem con 18.900 copie vendute.
(8:00 p.m. GMT) Celine Dion's French-language album "D'elles" drops down at the FOURTH position from the second one
on this week's best-selling album chart in France. This week the sales of the album were practically unchanged: 17,800 copies
compared to last week's, totalizing 134,800 copies sold in four weeks. At the first position came the French singer
Johnny Hallyday with "La Cigale" that sold 21,300 copies and at the second one came Christophe Willem with "Inventaire" that sold
18,900 copies. Nationally, David Suzuki was ranked first overall with 33 per cent of the respondents choosing him as the most Priceless living celebrity. Celine Dion came in
second with 18 per cent of the vote. In Quebec, Celine obviously came in FIRST.
The Priceless Index is a national survey carried out regularly by MasterCard. This national survey of 2,006 Canadians 18 years of age and over was carried out by telephone between
May 24 and May 31, 2007 by Environics Research Group on behalf of MasterCard Canada. Results to a survey of this size can be considered accurate to within plus or minus 2.2 percentage points,
19 times out of 20.
[Source: CNW]
Then, she will be performing at the Vergelen Wine Estate in Cape Town on February 23rd and 24th and at the EPRU Stadium in
Port Elizabeth on February 27th. Here's the *updated* Celine Dion Gala Provisional Line up:
"Please note that due to the popularuty
of this artist, tickets for this Gala are sold up to one year in advance and performance dates
and venues may be subject change in accordance with Ms. Dion's World Tour programme."
(6:00 p.m. GMT) In an interview with the Canadian newspaper The Gazette, Neil Matthews, owner of MeubleA playground supplies, talked about Celine Dion.
"So how much do you charge for installation? You can add on anywhere from $200 to $650 for installation, depending what you've got. It rarely takes more than a day. Although we
recently built one for Celine Dion and it took 21/2 days to install. Did you meet her? I didn't get to meet her, but my crew did. They said she came out and introduced herself,
that she was very nice. So, what kind of a playground does Rene-Charles have?
Some of her relatives came to the showroom with a list of activities they wanted to be able to do on their playground. They wanted rock climbing, a tire swing, a fire pole and two slides.
Celine specified two slides so she could slide down at the same time as her boy. That's so cute. It's not just Celine who can customize; I encourage people to think of what they want to
do on their playgrounds. Hers also has a really loud bell on the top of the playhouse. I don't have one in the showroom - it's really loud."This is a chart based not only on the celebrities' earning within the last 12 months. Rankings are generated by combining earnings with other metrics:
Web mentions on Google press clips compiled by LexisNexis; TV/radio mentions by Factiva; and number of times a celebrity's face appeared on the cover of 32 major consumer magazines.
Last year Celine ranked at #24 on the general chart and at #7 on the Best Paid Musicians chart. It's the sixth year that the Quebec-born diva -- whose Las Vegas show will
end later this year -- has made the list. Her highest ranking was in 1999 when she hit the top 10 for the first and only time at No. 9.
"Celine fans have six more months to shell out up to US$ 350 apiece for tickets to her blockbuster Las Vegas show, 'A New Day...,' at Caesar's Palace. The Canadian songbird has been selling out
the 4,100-seat Coliseum — a US$ 95 million custom-made venue—since 2003, and last year pulled in US$ 78 million. The show's extended run ends Dec. 15. Not to worry: Her new album from Sony
drops in October".
(8:00 p.m. GMT) Il nuovo album in francese di Celine Dion , "D'elles",
scende dal primo posto al TERZO posto della classifica degli album più venduti questa settimana in Canada.
Questa settimana sono stati venduti 11.000 esemplari dell'album , per un totale di 107.000 copie
vendute in tre settimane. Al primo posto debutta l'album della cantante Rihanna: "Good Girl Gone Bad" con 17.000 copie vendute e al secondo posto
Claude Dubois con 15.000 copie.
(8:00 p.m. GMT) Celine Dion's French-language album "D'elles" drops down at the THIRD position from the first
on this week's best-selling album chart in Canada. This week 11,000 copies of D'elles have been sold in the Canadian stores,
totalizing 107,000 copies sold in three weeks. At the first place debutted Rihanna, "Good Girl Gone Bad", with 17,000 copies and
at the second place came Claude Dubois, whose album "Duos Dubois" sold 15,000 copies. (8:00 p.m. GMT) Il nuovo album in francese di Celine Dion , "D'elles",
scende dal primo posto al SECONDO posto della classifica degli album più venduti questa settimana in Francia.
Questa settimana perde quasi il 60% di vendite rispetto alla settimana scorsa vendendo 18.000 copie, per un totale di 117.000 copie
vendute in tre settimane. Al primo posto si classifica l'album del cantante francese Christophe Willem: "Inventaire"
che vende quasi 20.000 copie.
(8:00 p.m. GMT) Celine Dion's French-language album "D'elles" drops down at the SECOND position
on this week's best-selling album chart in France. This week the sales of the album lost a 60% selling 18,000 copies compared to last
week's, totalizing 117,000 copies sold in three weeks. At the first place came the French singer
Christophe Willem with his album "Inventaire" that sold almost 20,000 copies. 
(9:00 a.m. GMT) TONIGHT at 8:50 p.m. CET (at 7:50 p.m. GMT; at 2:50 p.m. ET), TF1 and
ChérieFM
will be presenting " Céline ", a TV-Special dedicated to Céline Dion, and invite you all to spend an amazing night in Montreal
(Canada). Celine will perform 11 songs and will duet with a lot of French singers.She will sing LIVE "Staying alive" with Vitaa, Shy'm and Amel Bent, "L'hymne à l'amour" with Maurane and Johnny Hallyday,
"Blueberry Hill" with Johnny Hallyday, "The show must go on" with Christophe Maé and David Hallyday, "My heart will go on" with Lââm
and Amel Bent, "Caroline" with McSolar and Nolween Leroy, "Être à la hauteur" with Merwann Rim and Christophe Maé, "Caruso"
with Florent Pagny... and 3 songs from D'Elles (in playback): Et S'il N'en Restait Qu'une, À Cause and
Immensité. All fans around the world will be able to listen the whole show on
ChérieFM!!
She will sing LIVE "Staying alive" with Vitaa, Shy'm and Amel Bent, "L'hymne à l'amour" with Maurane and Johnny Hallyday,
"Blueberry Hill" with Johnny Hallyday, "The show must go on" with Christophe Maé and David Hallyday, "My heart will go on" with Lââm
and Amel Bent, "Caroline" with McSolar and Nolween Leroy, "Être à la hauteur" with Merwann Rim and Christophe Maé, "Caruso"
with Florent Pagny... and 3 songs from D'Elles (in playback): Et S'il N'en Restait Qu'une, À Cause and
Immensité. This TV-special was taped at Montreal's Studio Mels on Friday, May 11th.
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During her final song, large screens showed a video of an Air Canada plane soaring over downtown Vancouver. And, of course, it was a Boeing aircraft,
because the evening was co-sponsored by Boeing and Air Canada. Boeing's manufacturing archrival, Airbus, had numerous executives in the audience at the
dinner organized by the International Air Transport Association.
[Source: TheGlobeAndMail]
(7:00 a.m. GMT)
Secondo Billboard, gli spettacoli di Céline dal 30 Maggio al 3 Giugno si classificano
al PRIMO posto della Billboard Boxscore Concert Grosses (la classifica degli
incassi dei concerti nel MONDO) di QUESTA settimana. Guadagni delle vendite: 2.787.637 dollari;
Show tutti esauriti: 3 su 5; biglietti venduti nei 5 giorni: 20.330 su 20.740.
Invece, gli spettacoli dal 24 al 27 Maggio si classificano
al SECONDO posto. Guadagni delle vendite: 2.293.021 dollari;
Show tutti esauriti: 4 su 4; biglietti venduti nei 4 giorni: 16.592 su 16.592.
Con questi show, gli spettacoli tutti esauriti sono 470 su 663. Dall'inizio dell'anno, Celine si è esibita in 62 spettacoli
i quali hanno incassato un totale di 34.589.978 dollari con 251.220 presenze.
(7:00 a.m. GMT)
According to Billboard, Céline's shows from May 30 to June 3rd are at the
FIRST position of THIS week's Billboard Boxscore Concert Grosses (the chart of concert
grosses in the WORLD). Gross Sales: US$ 2,787,637; Shows/ Sellouts: 3 out of 5,
Attend/Capacity: 20,330 out of 20,740. The shows from May 24th to May 27th are at the
SECOND position. Gross Sales: US$ 2,293,021; Shows/ Sellouts: 4 out of 4,
Attend/Capacity: 16,592 out of 16,592. With these shows, Céline's sold-out shows are 470 out of 663 performed shows.
The 62 shows (since the beginning of 2007) grossed US$ 34,589,978 with 251,220 attendances. |
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(6:30 p.m. GMT) Il nuovo album in francese di Celine Dion , "D'elles", continua a rimanere
al PRIMO della classifica degli album più venduti questa settimana in Francia. Questa settimana perde il 25% di vendite rispetto alla settimana del debutto vendendo
44.000 copie, per un totale di 99.000 copie vendute in due settimane. Al secondo posto si classifica l'album del cantante francese Christophe Willem: "Inventaire"
che vende 38.300 copie, aiutato da uno special televisivo andato in onda in Francia giovedì scorso.
(6:30 p.m. GMT) Celine Dion's French-language album "D'elles" keeps on staying at the FIRST position of this week's best-selling album chart in
France. This week the sales of the album lost a 25% selling 44,000 copies compared to last week's, totalizing 99,000 copies sold in two weeks. At the second place came the French singer
Christophe Willem with his album "Inventaire" that sold 38,300 copies helped by a TV-special that was aired last thursday in France.  |
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(8:00 a.m. GMT) Celine Dion, reigning queen of Las Vegas, got a visit from Zahi Hawass, the king of Egyptian antiquities, over the weekend. Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, worked in cooperation
with AEG Live to produce the blockbuster museum exhibition, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaoh,"which is currently at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia until September 30. (Photo courtesy of Frank Miraglia/CDA
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(12:05 p.m. GMT) Nella nuovissima sezione del sito dei Maniacs:
'D'Elles' Section, potrete scaricare
le scansioni dell'edizione Collector dell'ultimo album in francese di Céline Dion: "D'Elles". Inoltre potrete scaricare
le scansioni dell'edizione Digipack, foto di alta qualità, i due video tratti dall'album, screencaps, brevi clip delle canzoni e i testi.
(12:05 p.m. GMT) In the newest section of Céline's Maniacs website: 'D'Elles' Section,
you'll be able to download the scans of the Collector Edition of Céline Dion's latest album in French,"D'Elles". Besides,
you'll be able to download the scans of the Digipack Edition, high-quality pictures, videoclips, screencaps, short song-clips and the song-lyrics.