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2 January 2001

1st!!!!

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With immense pleasure, we tell you that our site came first as best internet site devoted to Céline Dion during 2000.
We thank you who have allowed to reach a so prestigious target!

Céline on "Sorrisi e Canzoni TV"

The cover of Sorrisi
The weekly magazine Sorrisi e Canzoni TV of this week (#2 in 2001), dedicates a long article about Céline and Rene, for the birth of their first baby.

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The multimedia advertising of Tout En Amour

On the Celineonline site it's possible to download a beautiful multimedia clip to advertise the CD "Tout En Amour".
31 December 2000

Gente

On the Italian weekly magazine Gente of 3rd January, at page #15, there's a short article and a small picture with Céline and René.
[Thanks to Emanuele for the news]
30 December 2000

Magazines

At www.planetepresse.com there are all the French magazines, with covers, where Céline has appeared or where she'll appear!
29 December 2000

Some news

On the European version of Celineonline site they say that the release date of the vhs/dvd "All the way...a decade of song" will be 22nd January.

On Jam site, it's possible to vote for Céline in the category "Missing-in-action award". At the moment, Céline is at second place with 18% of the votes, with Alanis Morrisette!
Vote for her!

Yesterday in the TV programme "Behind closed doors with Joan Lunden", they presented a video of Céline, where some back stages and unpublished pictures taken during her concerts have been shown!
[Thanks to Mauro for the news]
22 December 2000

Wishes to the fans

The pendant
Here is the present sent by the Céline international fan club to the members: a pendant to hang up with a snowflake and with the logo of Céline!
22 December 2000

The interview with Michel Drucker

Here is the interview issued by Céline to Michel Drucker and published by Paris Match this week!
View the interview>>>

21 December 2000

Céline on Paris Match

The cover of Paris Match
During the interview issued to Michel Drucker for Paris Match, Céline confirmed that the baby will be a boy, that his heart beats 162 times in a minute and that probably they'll name him René Jr.
The presenter has given us other good news: on 21st January it will be broadcasted the exclusive interview she issued him in these days in Florida. On 15 January it will be published the French version of "My story my dream".

Pictures taken from Paris Match Pictures taken from Paris Match
[Taken from Paris Match ]
20 December 2000

Video taken from the interview!

On the site of the Canadian TV network TVA it's possible to see seven minutes taken from the interview broadcasted last Sunday!

See the video >>>

The interview!

For all the Maniacs here is a kind of script of the interview broadcasted on TVA: it contains the salient moments and the most important questions and answers.
(Many Thanks to Mathieu)

See EXCLUSIVEMENT CÉLINE

On France2

On the French network France2 next Sunday at 01.55 PS they'll broadcast a programme with old clips related to Céline.

The Christmas Mass at midnight will be live broadcasted on France2 from Notre Dame in Montreal.
18 December 2000

Interview with René

René's interview on TVA
Here is what René said yesterday on TVA after the polemics for his request to retreat 200.000 copies of the magazine "7 jours":
Journalist: Usually isn't there an agreement with the magazines about the title?
René: Yes, sometimes there's this kind of agreement with the magazine and the journalist. Clearly this time there wasn't an agreement and I found it exaggerated.
Journalist: And why it didn't happen in this case?
René : I don't know why, maybe because the person realized that it was a sensationalist title and if she had told us, we hadn't agreed with her. I don't understand why this magazine which had the exclusive has chosen the sensational way. I found it a thing of bad taste and taken out of context. It's just gutter press.
Journalist: So you were shocked. Haven't you been surprised by the explanation of Céline, specially about the clinical side of the matter? Didn't you find her too much candid about the subject?
René: Not at all, I know the sincerity and the spontaneity of Céline. I've seen the interview and I think it's her best one. Even if I live with her 24 hours each day, I've been surprised and amazed. Often when we live with somebody we can't see her in this way, but listening to her during the interview has positively surprised me.
Journalist: If you didn't like the title of "7 Jours", what do you think of the article of "Le Devoir", there they write "René Angélil, the obsession of control, the man who kills the covers". You have been described as a despot. Are you surprised about the reaction of the journalists?
René: Yes, I am, but I find it very funny (he laughs). We don't control anything, and the proof is the fact that they said everything about us. Not only in Québec, but all over the world. Everything... we have no control.
Journalist: However you succeeded in taking back 200.000 copies, it's a control anyway, isn't it?
René: For once I suggested and I had the time to speak with the responsible, the owner TVA. Besides they had the same reaction. I can't understand why the journalists get angry. We have no control on what they write about us.
Journalist: Thanks a lot for having given us your time..
René: By the way! Don't forget to see the programme. After all, we made it for the fans who hadn't the opportunity to see Céline. And to do a kindness to Michel Jasmin who gave her first chance, just for this reason. We haven't wanted money for this programme.

More news:
Céline Dion, who confessed with Michel Jasmin, during the interview "Exclusively Céline" broadcasted this night on TVA, admits that she doesn't miss the show business. The singer takes advantage of the presence of her parents and of her pregnancy.
Speaking frankly, Céline Dion says that show business doesn't represent to her eyes the real life.
She admits as well that during the last apparitions she didn't feel at her ease. The singer says also some technical details used by the doctors who permitted her to get pregnant.
She describes the delicate technique to fertilize her ovules in laboratory before inserting in her ovaries.
She adds that her baby, who will born in two months, has a "twins of laboratory".
Céline wants to record two new album, in French and English, when her baby will be 1 years old or 18 months. The real return on sage will be in four further years.
René will became grandfather as well! Her daughter Anne Marie Angelil is pregnant!!!
17 December 2000

Articles

René Angelil makes 7 Jours to change a title with a phone call
René Angélil, husband and manager of Céline Dion stopped the press and the distribution of 200.000 copies of the new issue of the magazine "7 Jours" because he found sensationalist and with bade taste. According to the Canadian Presse, the magazine with the greatest circulation in Québec has been reprinted with a new title and without the false mention of exclusive pictures. The title was: "Céline: my son has already a twin". It's been changed into: "Céline at open heart".
Why a twin? Well, it seems that during the interview with M. Jasmin, Céline should have revealed to have another fertilized ovule, frozen in a fertility clinic in New York. According to Céline, it doesn't mean that they are necessary twins: it means that they have been conceived at the same time. The interview issued to Jasmin by the singer will be broadcasted next Sunday at 7:00 PM on TVA.
(Taken from Showbizz.net of Frédéric Perron - www.matin.qc.ca/indexcyra.html )

Céline Dion would like to be fertilized with another frozen embryo
Montreal - Pregnant, at seventh month, Céline Dion has revealed that during her assisted fecundation, another embryo has been frozen in a laboratory near New York and maybe she foresees to receive it and to bring it to an end. "There is another one in laboratory. We have a baby in my big tummy and there's another one in laboratory, frozen after five days", she admits innocently during the one hour and half interview and that she concede to the presenter Michel Jasmin; this exclusive interview is for Canada and it will be broadcasted next Sunday at 7:00 PM on TVA.
"Well, here I have a twi...They say "laboratory twin"; technically they call him "twin". It doesn't mean that he is an identical twin, but that he's been conceived at the same time of the baby born after the first fecundation", Madame Dion says shining.
The singer, in a sabbatical retreat, declares her will to have another baby. She underlines her interest for this second embryo that she wants to have inside her in the future, if it's possible to keep it for so long. "Another baby? Yes, because we have another baby waiting for us in New York at the moment. It's sure that I couldn't live knowing that he is there", she says.
The star says not to have chosen yet the name of the child, but she'd like a name which includes the name of "René", her husband and manager. The birth is foreseen on 14th February.
The greatest challenge for her will be to grow her child in way to keep both feet on the ground, even living in the richness and in the superfluous show business.
She hopes he will wait the bus at the corner of the street to go to school, as she did in Charlemagne, but she already knows that it will be impossible. She hopes, however, that he'll be able to go to school without the bodyguards. 
With an incredible purity, the singer describes with details the technique of assisted procreation.
She is happy, thin, with the oval face just little rounder. During the interview, automatically, often she takes her hands on the big tummy and she admits to adore to be pregnant. She is not in a hurry to give birth to the child, as she feels so much the fetus inside her. 
Céline Dion is clearly happy. She admit not to feel the lack of the anxious life of the show business. She underlines, almost sad, that an year has gone by after her retreat.
It was the right time to retreat. In the those last days in Montreal, for the show of 31 December 1999, she was "out" as she was tired. She was a real automaton. "I was completely empty".
Céline Dion hopes to come back on stage when her child will be at least 1 year or 18 months. But she wants to spend with him at least his first year.
She's already thinking something about her return and she ensures that she'll record another French album and an English album. She's planning "some extraordinary things never done before".
Toward the end of the interview, her husband and manager, René Angelil appears. He explains why the couple has been tactful about the pregnancy, as they didn't want they transformed it into a big circus. Angelil didn't enjoy the presence of the photographers inside the courtyard to take a picture of the big tummy of Céline.
He changed idea toward the end of the seventh month because "the people want to see her at least once before the birth". The interview has been recorded last week in Dion-Angelil house at Palm Beach.
The interview, given to the French M. Drucker, has been recorded on the same day, but it will be broadcasted only at the beginning of January.
(Taken from: www.southam.com/lesoleildequebec/newsnow/cpfs/Arts )

Other articles::
www.southam.com/lesoleildequebec/newsnow/cpfs/Arts
archives.infinit.net/textecomplet
National Post

Céline: the return on stage is not so far?

(Taken from TVA, from the interview with Michel Jasmin)
Michel Jasmin explains that he was talking with Céline about a possible return on stage.
Céline: I can't say to be at this point.
Michel: Seeing you, it seems yes.
Céline: Do you think so?
Michel: Oh, yes!
Céline: Yes, I feel better. I've never felt so good, this is sure. I needed so much time even if I often say myself: "Almost an year has gone by, my God, from the retreat, and now I have not so much time".
Michel: When you say “I have not so much time", do you mean that...
Céline: Well, it's necessary to begin again, because I want to begin again, this is sure.
Michel: Is it sure?
Céline: Yes, it's sure... I want to get on the stage again. There are things I can't tell you because we are working on them, but it's sure that I'll get on stage again. And it's sure, there will be a French and an English record, as always.
Michel: Are there concrete things you are talking about?
Céline: Yes, we are preparing them. But more than speaking, we are working on some ideas.
Michel: With which term?
Céline: Things we have never done.
[Short extract of the interview, taken from S’il suffisait d’aimer ]
16 December 2000

Céline on "7 Jour Magazine"

The controversial cover
The Canadian weekly magazine 7 Jour Magazine brings out the next interview with Michel Jasmin, that will be broadcasted on TVA (Canadian network) tomorrow at 7:00 PM local time.
The news appear on the cover with a controversial title: "Mon fils a deja un jumeau" ("My baby has already a twin"), title which made disappointment. René Angelil called Raynald Briere, the manager of TVA, expressing his rage for the cover of the magazine, now controlled by the Canadian network TVA. The title, Angelil says, is not harmonious with the interview, where Céline, as Francine Chaloult says (spokesperson of the singer), has never said the word "twins". In reply to René, the manager made destroy and reprint 200.000 copies of the magazine.

During the interview with Jasmin, she says she wants to start again her career when her child will be one year old, and that she's thinking about new projects for a French and an English album.
15 December 2000

Céline on TVA

Michel Jasmin says about Céline (interviewed a few days ago): "Who I've met last week in her house in Florida is a shining woman. A bright woman, happy and proud for her so awaited pregnancy.
You'll be able to see it yourselves, next Sunday, 17th December at 7:00 PM, when you'll see the one hour and half conversation with Céline Dion. During this occasion you'll receive her best wishes, expressed specially for you".
See the clip with the wishes of Céline
["I take the opportunity to wish you season's greetings, a happy new year, a happy Christmas and, above all, good health! See you! Goodbye!"]

Again about the exclusive interview with Jasmin, here is another article taken from another site of the TVA network:
Exclusivament Céline
M. Jasmin had an encounter with Céline Dion.
During this interview, the star will say in confidence about her new life, about her perception and about the role of mother. She will trace a balance of her career and she'll speak about her future.
Céline Dion, who has always demonstrated her fidelity to her first loves, will show it once again to M. Jasmin and to the audience of the TVA network for the whole Canada, conceiving her exclusive interview to the country.
The young Céline interviewed by Jasmin This encounter will be broadcasted at 7:00 PM, Sunday 17th December.
M. Jasmin has an important position in the court of the couple Dion-Angelil, because he's been the first presenter to make known in Québec the young singer who will shine in a few years among the greatest stars. ( www.reseau.tva.ca )

Other news about Céline interview

Céline confidences
Montreal - Céline wants to have other babies, but she'd have been pregnant with three children this time. This is just one of the confidences that Céline Dion told to Michel Jasmin during the interview conceived in her house at Jupiter, Florida, that will be broadcasted on TVA network next Sunday from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM.
Céline could have three children, Michel Jasmin told to Journal de Montreal , because, as she said, the doctors gave her the possibilities to fertilize one, two or three embryos. She has chose to fertilize three embryos to have more possibilities to be pregnant.
In fact, as we know, only an embryo survived, and he'll be the child that Céline will give birth on 14th February, but at the beginning all of them could survive, giving her three children.
Moreover, Michel Jasmin says, “... she told the whole process of the assisted procreation, everything she went through, the injections, the anguishes, with all the detail".
Céline during the interview “And she does it clearly, otherwise it should be so clinical or voyeur.”
“But it's not so. It's very touching". René after this interview said: "I know how it happened, but I'm sure that the women who wants to have a child will go to ask information about this technique".
René Angelil takes part only for 5 of 90 minutes of this long interview, but Michel Jasmin reveals us that at a certain time, after a advertising break, the television camera will frame it with tears in his eyes.
"It has just happened a thing that I don't want to tell you, but that I didn't like as well", Jasmin says.
Maybe it was when Céline says to wish other children in the future, when we hear something astonishing, as Michel Jasmin says.
“It's an important moment. You'll be surely astonishing. It's so unexpected, so wonderful".
It's the most important passage of the interview? "No, there are so much important passages!".
He says that the interview he made with Céline "is above all emotional".
The interview is so different from the ones given to Michel Drucker during the morning for the French television, as René Angelil explained to Michel Jasmin, because during the other interview they though back over Céline career.
"The photographer of Paris Match told me three times in a row that he has never seen a so emotional interview, that he has never seen Céline Dion under this point of view and that he has never been so attracted by her intentions".
"To the persons who still believe that Céline rent an uterus I say that I've seen her big tummy, I touched it and I felt her baby moving".
[Taken from www.canoe.qc.ca ]

Other news.  
According to Le journal de Montreal , Céline put on 25 ponds (11 kilograms). The couple has not confirmed if the baby will be a baby boy or a baby girl.

The future nationality of Céline baby

Here is an article taken from Montreal Gazette that says about the place of birth of Céline baby.
Birth in Florida for Céline baby.
The singer says that her child will birth in USA. Next year, when Céline will give birth him, she could think to use as background music the song sung by Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA".
The 32 years old diva thinks to give birth the baby - a boy - in Florida, according to her mother. Therese Tanguay-Dion has been cited by the Ottawa daily newspaper Droit , in French language: she says that her daughter will give birth in the south.
She said this news last Monday, while she was at Hull to donate 20.000$ to the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Society, representing the Canadian Tire.
In addition to the luxurious house in Jupiter, Florida, Céline Dion and her husband René Angelil have bought a residence in Rosemere, near Montreal. A representative of the USA embassy in Ottawa confirmed that who is born in USA automatically becomes American citizen. For this reason, the baby of the couple will be American.
Questioned about this matter, Madame Tanguay-Dion said not to have considered nothing about the birth in Florida of her grandson. The spokesperson of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Carl Schwenger, said that the couple could asks the double nationality and to make their child a Canadian citizen asking a certificate of nationality to a Canadian consulate in USA, or to a Canadian court who work in citizenship matters.
This year, the couple has renewed marriage promises during a ceremony celebrated in Las Vegas. Last June, Madame Dion announced to the world to be pregnant.
The fertility specialist, doctor Zev Rosenwaks, confirmed to have taken care of Madame Dion to his clinic in Manhattan, where she has been treated with glassy fertilization. the gynaecologist of Céline Dion, Ronald Ackerman, works in Florida.

Sisters

On 21st November 2000 in Canada it's been released an album containing several artists songs, among them Céline, with "I want you to need me".
[Thanks to Luella]
14 December 2000

Céline's wishes message

On the Canadian newtwork TVA site it's possible to see a brief clip where Céline wishes happy Christmas!

View the clip

Charts

Billboard drew the chart of the 200 best seller albums during 2000!
Céline's album "All the way.....A decade of songs" is at the seventh place.

Among the 100 best seller singles during 2000, "That's the way it is" is at #28 place.

In the single chart, "Contemporary adult" category, "That's the way it is" is at #3, preceded by Savage Garden ("I knew I loved You") and Lonestar Bna ("Amazed").

Céline has been nominated as "Female artist of the year", in the "Contemporary adult" category.

In the Japanese site of Sony Music there is a funny game related to Céline.
[Thanks to Mauro and Maria Laura for the news]
12 December 2000

Céline in newsstand

The monthly magazine "McCall's" next January will dedicate an article to Céline and it will publish a extract from the biography "My story, my dream".


The Canadian magazine "Echos Vedettes" publishes and interview issued by Maman Dion, who comments the  photos with Céline with the big tummy taken during the recent holiday in Bahamas.
[News taken from http://rhapsodion.tripod.com/ and http://www.chez.com/suffisait/]
9 December 2000

Vhs All the way

According to the last rumors, the so awaited vhs/DVD will be out on 12 December 2000. Here is the tracks list:
1. "The Power Of Love"
2. "If You Asked Me To"
3. "Misled"
4. "Beauty And The Beast" (live duet with Terry Bradford taken form "Falling Into You" tour, concert in Memphis)
5. "Because You Loved Me" (live, taken from "Falling Into You" tour, concert in Memphis)
6. "It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Single Version)"
7. "Love Can Move Mountains"
8. "To Love You More" (with Taro Hakase; live, taken from the "Falling Into You" tour, concert in Memphis)
9. "My Heart Will Go On"
10. "I'm Your Angel" (duet with R. Kelly)
11. "That's The Way It Is"
12. "If Walls Could Talk"
13."The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (live, taken from "All The Way ... A Decade Of Song", 1999 CBS-TV special)
14. "All The Way (duet with Frank Sinatra; live, taken from "All The Way ... A Decade Of Song" 1999 CBS-TV Special)
15. "Then You Look At Me"
16. "I Want You To Need Me"
17. "Live For The One I Love"
18. "It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Stereo Mix - Long Version)" (Bonus, only in DVD version)
6 December 2000

Boots for auction

Here is the picture of the boots of Céline, auctioned in the last days. There is a curious detail: the heel of one the of two boots is broken; it happened last year during the taking part at Rosie O'Donnell while she was singing "That's the way it is".
In a short time, we'll put in the "Curiosities" section of our site the details of this strange events!

These are special time

The Christmas CD of Christina Aguilera has been released and it contains, among the other songs, "These are special times", sung also by Céline, and here arranged in R&B style.
[Thanks to Valentina, Maria Laura and Gabriele for the news]
1 December 2000

The pictures of the magazine "Chi" of this week

Here are the picture published on issue #49 (6 December 2000) of the magazine "Chi".



















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