The torch is passed... Celine is the world widow champion of the casket dance

She was glorious and GORGEOUS! Who was she wearing?

This shameless cunt had 13 cameras set up in the church. 13?!

Rene-Charles is 14 and his hairline is already receding.

And she named her twins Nelson and Eddy?

Bitch thinks she's Jackie O when she married a man who diddled her underage pussy. He'd been her manager since she was 12!

Mais oui, her heart will go on. AND it will be going on with many, many, MANY more millions of $$$, now that that gambling-addled, loser, POS husband of hers is gone.

Is painfully obvious she hasn't had any work done.

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She's definitively given up. (whispery giggle)

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[quote]She outdid Nancy Reagan!

WHAT???

I don't think so!

Please, both those bitches stole that from moi.

she is older than SHIT

My shamelessness WILL go on bitches!

Oh for fuck sake!! No one and I mean NO ONE can out widow me!! I've done it better and longer than anyone else.

Who did it better? Or....

This one?

Her pussy is on FIRE!

I yam sorry, bud Nan-cee... she din have no veil and no yute lef. I am da queen now.

[Bold] OP = worse than Hitler in a grease fire casket.

Could someone please explain: What was Nancy Reagan's casket dance? Is there video, or perhaps a gif?

[quote]Oh for fuck sake!! No one and I mean NO ONE can out widow me!!

Wait a minute, honey... Look and weep! PULITZER! PUL-LIT-ZER!!! Can I pour you a drink?

Let's send Celine the condolence gift of a chemical peel. Her crepey chin is really not a good look.

It is so creepy how she made it a public event of grand proportions...

Why are the twin boys dressed like mini-Michael Jacksons?

ET said dead hubby planned the whole shindig. Celine just had to show up and look gorgeous. Oops.

[quote]Celine just had to show up and look gorgeous.

Mission...half-accomplished.

Don't forget about me!!!! ...and I'm NOT a crook!

This thread is too much! I can't take it....

Why do the twin boys have hair longer than Celine?

I want a piece of this...

We should have guessed that Rene planned this.

His 13 cameras closing in on Celine was a bit cruel, though.

R14

You beat me to it !!

OMG R30 is hysterical!

(moves phlegm) What? Hello... this is a very special Larry King Live as we bring you extended coverage from the funeral of Rene Angellily, dead husband of singing sensation Celine . It's a jam packed hour with live reports from the funeral in Paris - what? Oh - Montreal... Nancy Grace joins us later to speculate on the will... but first.... James Cameron... producer of Titanic. James... you didn't even like that song, did ya? You must feel bad tonight.

Come on , bitches ! Give her a pass on this one ,she just lost her brother too. She looks rough , and who can blame her ? One thing about death ,you can know its coming , but when it happens it still hurts like a motherfucker .

I'd forgotten she lost her brother as well.

But she still looks like my ugly long second toe, the one long enough to be the creepiest little finger.

But my toe can't sing.

She's fabulous!!!! I so wish I was there to condole her personally. It would have been the pinnacle of my condoling career.

Horace Vandergelder gimme a sign.

Was this televised in Canada? Is Celine treated like royalty up there? Because, this dirty old man she married isn't really a celebrity in real countries.

So is she adding the casket dance to her Vegas show?

She could use some fillers.

Celine is only 47, but her chin is severly lined. Her five-year old boys look like they're off to see the Wizard. And they look like little French Rapunzel dolls with the flowing long hair.

But the funeral should win an Oscar for the best dignified spectacle.

WTF with that big herd at the wake? Was he that big in Canada? It looks like a head of state died. Weird. And those twins are cute but what is with the waist length hair?

That is some fucking insane shit. They'll be less of a spectacle at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. It's basically a state funeral for some old perv who was married to a singer.

MMPH! Fiddle-dee-dee...

Just think what Ana Gasteyer could do with this.

Poor thing. She'll never recover....

I look forward to the resumption of her Vegas residency, where she'll be appropriately attired in widow's weeds for a year.

Let Celine grieve anyway she chooses. It is bad karma to criticize how one mourns.

I've attended Chinese funerals where the family hires professional mourners, preferably actors, to moan, wail and groan during the funeral service. It is traditional to their culture. I keep my mouth shut. i do not commentand just watch the unfolding entertainment.

[quote]I look forward to the resumption of her Vegas residency, where she'll be appropriately attired in widow's weeds for a year.

Not hardly. She'll do the classic line;

"Hello everybody. This is Mrs Norman Maine... err, rather... Mrs. René Angélil"

Don't blame Celine. Her considerate husband planned the whole thing meticulously. All Celine had to do wasshow up with the kids.

Can some Canadians answer this? Was he really that huge in Canada to warrant all this? His just being the husband of a huge celebrity. And doesn't anyone in Canada find the whole relationship creepy? He met her at 12 ( didn't she move in with him and his family?) and then he divorced his wife to be with the teenager he had been managing. I just seriously don't get this. And I hate to question her on this, but at any point in the last two days did anyone see her actually shed a tear? She might have, I just don't have access to the round the clock live coverage on this thing not would I have watched it if I did. You know, when the tabs reported his huge gambling debts, they also reported that he irritated the female workers in the casinos by being way to touchy feely. He just didn't strike me as being that upstanding as a husband. What is his rep in Canada? TIA

This is the only place I heard of it. Guess Celine is non news outside her native place.

She looks haggard. At least make yourself look pretty for the camera or is it too much for a woman her age ?

She's a pro and a trooper. I want her on my team.

Has she ever had the feel of a young man before ?

Let's see her carry it on for 2o+ years.

If only she would have jumped in the casket with hubby and got buried alive. So sick of this annoying drama queen. Piss off miss irrelevant Celine.

Just Like Bieber, she makes me hate Canada.

[quote]Celine is the world widow champion of the casket dance

Not if I have anything to do with it. Cody, you know the drill. A-five-six-seven-eight!

Let's see that Celine top this! I put out a whole album with songs written by my dead husband and I. No state funeral and believe me Nick deserved one!

R61 Solid

TISSUE! I need TISSUE, damn it!!!

Fucking epic. Come on. How can you not appreciate this??!!

Canadian here: apparently they are huge in Quebec even though the states is home, but the rest of the country... he wouldn't have gotten that funeral or attention anywhere else in Canada. Quebec is a distinct culture in many respects and is very passionate about their homegrown success stories.

Did he not die a month ago? They are just now getting around to burying him?

They were (and Celine still is) very big in Quebec. Think Barbra Streisand big in the US. And she lost her brother to cancer the same week. Don't criticize her mourning. Don't be low class.

WW for r26.

Here's a lovely candid shot of Celine at the funeral. Such a striking beauty.

This really isn't about him. This is all for Celine. Nice to her peeps got her back..and then some.

I really hope she can get on with her life and date someone even younger than her. Rene stole her youth. She needs to go and reclaim it. Best of luck, Celine.

[quote]Rene stole her youth.

No shit.

In grotesquerie that funeral reminds me of the DL predictions for Michael Jackson's funeral (the Widow Feldman leading the mourning ... Elizabeth Taylor entering on a diamond-encrusted jazzy ... Bubbles ...). The fact that her teenaged son looks 10 years older makes her look all the more the part of the eternal dowager. She's going to have to use hormones on her symmetrical midget twins to keep them the right bookend height for her public appearances.

Oh, please R71! For all we know she was MARRIED to someone who adored her and the very ground she walked on. His interests were for only for her happiness. You wish that she was with someone who was nearly as young as she? Someone who is still trying to find themselves, etc?

Youth is GREAT, but for the most part it's a lot of aggravation too.

In my search for anything related to "casket dance", the word "casket" no longer has any meaning.

C'mon, R67! This wasn't over the top?

I wonder if royalties had to be paid since her music was played...

Well, R70, How do you think a widow's heart goes on?

[quote]In my search for anything related to "casket dance", the word "casket" no longer has any meaning.

And, you had your feelings hurt this morning, honey! Where do we send the flowers or what charity shall we donate to on your behalf...

It seemed to me, he lived his life like a [blank] in the [blank].

[quote]And, you had your feelings hurt this morning, honey! Where do we send the flowers or what charity shall we donate to on your behalf...

What's your damage?

She's 46? Gurl bye...

[quote]They were (and Celine still is) very big in Quebec. Think Barbra Streisand big in the US. And she lost her brother to cancer the same week. Don't criticize her mourning. Don't be low class.

She's a saloon singer....

[quote]Guess Celine is non news outside her native place

The article is from the Daily Mail and it was the main headline for the most part yesterday so that's a no.

She doesn't bother anyone -- even her husband didn't bother anyone outside of the press sniffing for rumors and Quebecois wanting a music career in Montreal.

Celine can ask for madonna's help on how to get banged by young ghetto guys. Celine get ready to be fucked by a real man!

Oh wow the son is now so handsome! Move over rocco!

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God, her son is just gorg. Rene was not his biological dad. He could never put that out. Mmmm.

R87, I noticed him too. Dayum!

Her son is so beautiful but typical of men in Quebec.*books with Air Canada outta LaGuardia, Fin du Monde ale in hand*

Mon Dieux, I miss Quebec so very much. Gorgeous guys everywhere. Just everywhere! And since they're all gorgeous, they don't realize how gorgeous they are! Win win.

I've NEVER, ever seen so many hot guys crammed into one place as I have cruising a gay bar in Queerbec City. Didn't know where to look first. Felt like I was drugged.

I'd like to invite him to my next event.

[quote]Could someone please explain: What was Nancy Reagan's casket dance? Is there video, or perhaps a gif?

Oh honey, that was classic! Nancy looked into the camera all glassy-teary eyed, and after holding that shot for a few seconds collapsed upon the coffin uttering; "Oh Ronny..."

The children rushed to her aid! CUT SHOT! PRINT!

BRAVO! OSCAR! OSCAR!!!

Hi. I'm R35. Condole my ass.

R87 that ain't nothing. The place is crawling with gorgeous guys. Nobody there thinks Gabriel Aubry is so good looking because in the scheme of things up there, he really isn't.

Can't

take

it.

LOL, R97!!!! LOL!!!!!

Celine is a LOVELY lady. Truly one of the good ones.

But this thread has me in hysterics.

Comedy = Drama + Time.

We just get right to it in 5 minutes, that's all..

THIS is how it ought to be done, you unfortunate provincial hack.

Wow R76 those peeps really have her back. You never see that support in the States or the rest of Canada. Anyone here Canadian citizen looking for marriage? This place is where I want to be. That was so fucking beautifilul. Damn.

Please do not clutter the DL with your bad taste, R99. The Widow Dion is not lovely, as this thread shows, and is not one of the good ones, because no one good would have participated in this travesty of real grief. She is a Death Whore, and from that she can never absolve herself. It is an offense (Mary!) against all decency and an insult to loss.

Sorry to be late my darlings! I'm ready to do the fashion segments now.

R102 your parents hated you, you inconvenience

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This IS the thread to put jackasses on ignore. Wiped my hands clean.

This IS the thread to put jackasses on ignore. Wiped my hands clean.

Shoo, R104, The fact that your 10% of all the posts on this thread are all about how you cream yourself over Celine and all the hawt men just show you're a Frau. Shoo, Frau. And take the black bunting off your trailer. Its tastelessness embarrasses the meth heads next door.

Wanna bet, R108?

Shoo. The fact that your 10% of all the posts on this thread are all about how you cream yourself over Celine and all the hawt men at her tasteless funeral performance just show you're a Frau. Shoo, Frau.

And take the black bunting off your trailer. Its tastelessness embarrasses the meth heads next door.

You can't Ignore the voice of DL reason, cunt.

Well, I want to know the important things...

WHAT WAS SERVED AT THE REPAST????

WATCH AND LEARN, BITCHES.

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No one can top the original drama queen - Queen Marie of Romania

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

A medley of extemporanea;

And love is a thing that can never go wrong;

And I am Marie of Romania.

Obvious, you Rene are not the father of that gorgeous Rene-Charles

I don't even think Celine is the biological mother. She just gestated him. That kid is so pure French Canadian looking and too good to be hers.

Rene Charles looks like he could be Aubry's son. I gotta get up there!

Rene Charles looks like he could be Aubry's son. I gotta get up there!

R112 What a performance! And it was after taking RR's coffin on a week-long tour around the country. You can take the girl outta Hollywood but ya can't take the Hollywood outta the girl!

Rene Charles looks like he could be Aubry's son. I gotta get up there!

Canada really cranks out the hotties.

R113, the guy is probably one of Celine's brothers or a brother in law. She's one of 14 siblings.

The family is enormous, previously very poor and very VERY Catholic. She might really think this is how a funeral should be, veils, wailing and all. It's possible this is a hearfelt tribute from her.

^ I agree, R121. Celine is sincere -- dopey and mawkish, but sincere.

Why is her son's accent so strong? Was he home schooled in Vegas by Cirque de soliel?

I had the same question. His accent is thicker than many Montreal francophones I've known

R120, having posted her 16th post on the thread.

She needs to just sit on her tuffet and mourn. Or something.

Now, now, at least let the thread hoverer choose a more appropriate ensemble.

Or do they do things differently on that side of the tracks?

Hey, René -

At least being in mourning will lessen the chance for anything like this reappearing soon.

OH! Look at that coat!

R87 and R113, the man at the left is Québécois singer Marc Dupré. He happens to be René's son-in-law. He married Anne-Marie Angélil a daughter from one of René's previous marriage.

Young René-Charles looks older than the 14 (near15) that he is.

Maybe the reason is for cancer victims?

I liked the movie "Jesus of Montreal" filmed at St Joseph's Oratory by the Parc Royale but for this service, they used the Notre Dame basilica downtown instead.

Please, Let her grieve. Let her be. She's bareley had a chance to count what's left of her finances.

[quote] But my toe can't sing.

Neither can the widow Angelli

You can tell that Rene-Charles is rapidly gaining on 18 yrs / 8 inches.

Too far from downtown r132

Barbra Streisand condoles Celine:

barbrastreisandDear @CelineDion - Every time you look at your children’s faces, you will see René. With love and strength - B

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The ND Basilica is not downtown. It's in Old Montreal, which is next to the river. Downtown is more inland on the island of Montreal. St Joseph's Oratory is on Mont-Royal, on the other side of the hill.

And old Montreal is much closer to downtown. Notre Dame is also a few steps from a metro station. The Oratory much farther, and up a huge hill.

[quote]Quebec is a distinct culture in many respects and is very passionate about their homegrown success stories.

Has anyone outside of DL brought up Angelil's pedophilia, if not ephebophilia ? Or maybe the Québécois think it's par for the course and just don't give a shit if one of theirs commits gross victimization just as long as it brings fame and accolades to a normally morally derelict region?

Perhaps he planned his own funeral since the Dion family members who might have stepped in when Celine was overwhelmed would have known the truth about the man who stepped in and charmed and glommed onto a poor and vulnerable adolescent from a poor and vulnerable family. He took heavy advantage and still needs to control his narrative to the grave.

There's nothing to change the fact that he's a pedophile/ephebophile and gambling addict who found a young, poor, and talented ingenue who could sustain all of his predilections and addictions and even fund him in his death. And even mourn the fucker.

I have a hard time being cynical about Celine. Like r122 said, she's mawkish and dopey, but sincere. Her voice really is very good, though she's chosen dreadful material more often than not.

There's something very charming about her. Here she is at 15, learning to speak English at Berlitz:

HER GRIEF LEGITIMIZES HIS FUCKING HER CHAUVE CHATTE

in those precious years before her massive box started looking like a kangaroo's pouch.

Angelil is a bully. He totally controlled the press in Quebec and in part Canada as well in regards to Celine. He was like a mafioso.

A respected reporter wrote an unauthorized biography on Celine and Angelil back in the 1980s or early 90s. Anyway, the book became a scandal because it detailed everything about their icky relationship. Of course, Angelil went after him. The book was pulled from circulation. The reporter was blacklisted for a certain time. Threats were made against him. A year or so later, the reporter was now under the payroll of the couple, their "official" biographer, and the book was available again but totally revised and censored from front to back, with no scandalous info in it. No one could take the reporter seriously after that.

This is the stuff no one is talking about.

She can't touch this!

AND I didn't have to become a widow to my old man to earn sympathy. I just divorced him and went cuckoo!

Wow, that's some camel toe -- and not the Dorothy Hamill kind.

The point isn't that she is mawkish and has retained a passable sincerity. I've ripped her and hide my ears from her crazy singing. The conduct of this funeral shows how over-the-top ridiculous she and her ilk are. Naivete, given enough money, inevitably becomes something other than charming. It becomes garishly entitled and embarrassing. Just as her music is vulgar (not that there's anything wrong with vulgarity in itself), her family "looky me boo hoo and you better like it" bullshit is vulgar.

The funeral extravaganza was tasteless and absurd. A cynical person would have had the sense not to wiggle her family delusions before the world. And the government of people of Québec, so hungry for any attention, opted to plop Vegas into their basilica.

Of course in today's world and at the DL there is little point in making these comments, because people neither understand or respect the longstanding conventions in place that prevent display and protect the true grief inside the show.

But, God, Nancy IS beside herself. What's left of her. She probably just altered her own arrangements to ensure that Little Ron collapses at her bier.

Did she have wardrobe and veil changes during the service? Regardless... the hair and everything else looked a little Witchie-Poo.

The twins look like they are just a dye job away from living with the countess at the Hotel Cortez.

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[quote] at the DL there is little point in making these comments,

Yes, of course, every single poster here finds her to be the height of understated refinement.

I *LOVED* how the kiss cued the Church bells. It deserved the clapping!

It was true love, PEUPLE!

Yes, everyone talks about his child touching especially there. It's usually followed by talks of her original teeth and what a backwards dump Charlemagne is. People much farther north from very remote areas talk about how hillbilly Charlemagne is a town. Charlemagne is not so far from Centre-ville (downtown) Montreal. Remote and isolated doesn't equal backwards there. People are basically saying that to let a ME man take your daughter is the same as giving her to a caravan of Gypsies. It's rare to find people Celines's age to come from those big Catholic many children families. All of those people are dead now. Quebec threw out the Catholic Church in the mid 60s. It was radical. It now has 0% population growth like Germany. Gay marriage has been legal forever and straights never get married or go near a church. Their families are usually commonlaw. No weddings but big vacation on Cuban beach. The only people left to support the Catholic Church is your Italian population. Most of those old churches converted into to die for condos with original stained glassed windows intact. They had and have an over the top percentage gay population there. There's a saying if you throw a rock in Montreal, you will break a church's stain glass window.

This is how you do it.

Haha at Rene Charles being home schooled by Circque. Yeah, I was surprised how heavy an accent for someone so young and living in the States. It seems like he spent a lot of time with his grandparents and up there. I actually think he was hardly around Rene who was not his biological father. That marriage hit the skids long ago and it is telling how RC said he was "getting to know" Rene. Obviously RC was raised in Quebec. Celine thinks we're all so stupid and uneducated as her. Census is Rene was a creeper. This funeral is all about her. Nobody really cares about Rene.

"Less spectacle for the Queen..." Somebody is certifiably insane! London will be unsurpassed!

Good for Celine, that she probably saw her close-ups from Day 1 and didn't GAS.

R156, what do you mean, Rene wasn't the father?

You know, there will be another big event when he is interred if he go in ground.the earth is frozen now and nobody can be buried until the spring. Double whammy.

Rene is not his biological father. Not even sure Celine is his mother. She just had his embryo implanted Rumors as to who the real father is match RC. A singer named Kevin Parent, I think. Not sure.

What is "match RC"?

R-C's elongated face is Celine's. And Rene was dark-haired when he met her.

The Dion family is actually First Nations, partially. The Mik'maq tribe way north where they hail from. They come from a village called Seal Cove, earlier known as Indian Cove. There's no way she and Rene could possibly genetically spawn a whitish kid like René Charles. His older children turned out dark with even a blue eyed blond mom. Her First Nation percentage is rather high.

Yeah, I thought that too. His face is kinda long like hers. Maybe she is biological mom but Rene is NOT the dad.

I remember reading a Blind Item about Celine being a bonafide lez. Something about her always having relationships with young, college aged women. Does anyone remember that one? It was posted on CDAN years ago.

Now the town of Madonna's mother family is kinda remote. It's called Matane, Western of pennisula South of Rimousky. Big, big seafood, fishery industry there. It's a fishing town. Mrs. P. CAMPBELL, hold your tongue!

Ooh, R165, I can believe that. Links please. I believe it because that whole province is OTT gay. There's a reason it's called Queerbec. More gay bars than bars.

Purr Celine. Purr, purr Celine!

R38

" I always thought that manure, if you'll pardon the expression is like money ............... "

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R163, that's partially true. Indian Cove now Seal Cove was an Eskimo (seal,der) community amongst the Algonquin Mikmaqs. It's really a play on Inuit Cove. The Mikmaqs invented word Eskimo as a slight, meaning "raw meat eater". Justin Beiber's mother's family are from that town and those people. I know. Explains a lot.

R161, resemble Rene Charle

Celine's cheesiness inspired an entire book.

celiene's pussy went down to georgia to have itself some fun....

Ok, I love the term casket dance. But I'm Canadian and Celine is one of own. She comes from a very large family and has been singing to us for years before Americans discovered her. She's french and maybe her over the top doesn't translate well. Having seen her pictures and videos for many years (she's my age) she's mourning, definite grief. She doesn't seem to be playing a part as much as she's recognizing her place as a French and Canadian figure. Like everyone, I think Canadians expected him to die before her. It's just sad to see her grief even though she knew it was coming.

That Susan Lucca clip is da bomb. Ages ago my gay Sociology professor of Sociology of Media 101 would go on and on about what a shitty reporter Maria Shriver was and how Lucci would never, ever win an Emmy cause she couldn't act. I did a paper and got an A+ covering All My Children.

...found sitting on a loaded gun.

Funny R170. I don't know where in Quebec GaGa's family comes from or Marc Ruffalo for that matter. Anyone know? I know Avril, Celine, Justin, Madonna family relations but not these two.

This interview with Celine, taking place during Hurricane Katrina, gives some insight into her personality. She practically has a nervous breakdown on video here.

She unfailingly identifies with the underdog, especially the impoverished underdog. She named one of her sons for Nelson Mandela, by the way.

Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton and Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess are all related through a long ago French Canadian ancestor. Jolie and Clinton are doubly related from some French Indian native.

R151, yes, yes - pardon the obvious. I was speaking to the few frauen here who insist on canonizing the Widow A. while weeping for her and approving her idea of mourning. I suppose it is not child abuse we see before us, technically, but at least the clueless wretches could include the phrase, "What about the children?"

I apologize to you for seeming to question the appropriate appreciation you obviously have bestowed on this spectacular - historic - event in the life of the DL. It truly is a monumental example of hubris de la avidité et de la mort.

There's a better version of that video where some Kween mimics her. But yes, she is typical of people in Northern Quebec with the empathy. You'll never go homeless unless you escape into the forest. They won't have it!

[quote]She named one of her sons for Nelson Mandela, by the way.

Really? I just assumed that her twins were named after the singer Nelson Eddy

The twins are named for Mandela and for Eddy Marnay, an Algerian songwriter.

R52, Yes she did and in one of the pics on the newspaper link, I think it's the one where she's looking up and waving but could be wrong, you can see she's kind of teary eyed. I think her mourning is genuine whatever else is going on, she looks devastated.

Some of you are making note of her child's heavy french accent. Isn't it possible that french could have been mostly spoken in the home since Quebec is VERY French, and maybe her other relatives do not really speak very much english? The kids may be given their school lessons in french too. Finally, I don't know about the father, but all of her children resemble her, (in my opinion), and I'm more inclined to believe that she is indeed their mother.

Years ago, when Usenet was a thing, someone on alt.showbiz.gossip claimed to have seen Celine eat one of her boogers. Another poster claimed she has (or had) horrible breath.

Found it. Such a hoot!

[She unfailingly identifies with the underdog, especially the impoverished underdog.]

That much is true. I remember she was some sort of video guest on that Howie Mandel game show. The contestant had to decide whether to take her $25k winnings or go on. The husband was like "take it!"

Celine came on, and--I assume much to the chagrin of the producers--agreed, saying "listen to your husband. $25k is a lot of money. Think of what you could do with it."

It struck me that she could still relate to the women's family despite her crazy wealth and that the show is obviously set up for maximum drama.

No R186, I know. Television in English would have changed that. This kid spent his formative years in Quebec, watching French channels, surrounded by non English, non bilingual people. He's too young to have that accent and be living here.

The woman is appropriately grieving in a world that no longer can be bothered to respect the dead. No one even wants to take 5 minutes, never mind a few days, to reflect on a loss and truly mourn. It's much too inconvenient. That's why you have ridiculous healing and celebration services scheduled just one day after tragedies when there should be real funerals.

From the MAME DENNIS GONE TO PURPLE collection for Celine's next appearance.

Anybody find Lady GaGa's genealogy? Is related to Madge, Angelina, Celine or Beiber? Get on it stat!

For reference:

Net worth $630 million (estimate as of December 2014) Celine Dion

Now, back to scheduled programming...

Was the hunky new PM there?

[quote] Isn't it possible that french could have been mostly spoken in the home since Quebec is VERY French,

Yes, but the home(s) were in Florida and Nevada, presumably.

The person on R183 is in desperate need of help. Word salad.

There was a Canadian house too.

Didn't they start dating when she was like 12?

Only world she's ever known.

His accent is from living in Quebec. It is even more pronounced than French speakers who learn English 35+ years. So sure he was shuttled back and forth via private jet. Celine was running a big show at Caesars and Rene was deep in a gambling addiction. Hardcore addict. I'm sure she protected her son by sending him back home to her family. Because of the gambling, he was not a hands on father as evident in the son's speech.

Nobody gives a rat's 'taint about Rene. No one. No one here, no one there. This whole spectacle is to honor one person only. Celine.

May she finally live to be her true self. Rene cheated left and right and put her into millions of $ in debt. He was a scumbag. Everyone knows it. It's actually a celebration of her freedom and a tip off to her brother's demise. May she rise from the ashes.

R200 is that why she had to do the Vegas shows due to his gambling addiction. Under ordinary circumstances I'm sure she had plenty of cash due to her massive success in the 90s.

Creeping us out R117 with your pretentious talk and word salad. You sound so old, too.

Gotta love Celine. Lots of stars do meet and greets with disabled kids. Celine finds the GAY disabled ones.

Does anyone else think there's a nice mini-series in the future for our dear Celine, a tasteful version to Joan Rivers' cashing in on her early widowhood?

I can see it now. And if she hurries she won't have to have any of the costumes taken out.

Maybe it can end with her new True Love, in a flash forward, keeping us guessing who the A++-list Vegas celebrity will fulfill her destiny.

That was meant for R147. Makes me think of Michael Bloomberg, that old Jewy queen.

That was meant for R147. Makes me think of Michael Bloomberg, that old Jewy queen.

That was meant for R147. Makes me think of Michael Bloomberg, that old Jewy queen.

[quote]Was this televised in Canada? Is Celine treated like royalty up there? Because, this dirty old man she married isn't really a celebrity in real countries.

French-Canadian culture is VERY different from the culture of other Canadians. It's difficult to explain however, except it can swing from highbrow, to exceedingly lowbrow with no explanation.

Suffice it to say, that most Canadians observed the stage show that was Rene's funeral in the same way you would seeing a car wreck. Recoiling in horror, but curious for the high-drama that you know has been orchestrated to hold your attention.

R147 is creepy. Michael Bloomberg voice too. Jewy. Queeny.

2002 -- Celine Dion's Husband Sued for Assault

A civil suit has been filed against Canadian singer Celine Dion's manager/husband, Rene Angelil, 60, by a Los Angeles woman who claims he fondled her in an elevator and then sexually assaulted her in her Las Vegas hotel room two years ago, Reuters reports. Angelil's Los Angeles lawyer Marty Singer called the charges "a complete fabrication" in an interview with Reuters. The lawyer said that although his client paid a confidential monetary settlement to the woman to keep the accusations quiet at a time when Angelil was battling cancer and Dion, 33, was undergoing complicated fertility treatments, he was now ready to refute the charges in court. Yun Kyeong Sung Kwon, an ordained minister of the Full Gospel World Church, and her husband, Ae Kwon, filed a complaint on March 16, according to Reuters, accusing Angelil with assaulting her in March 2000. Reuters reports that the couple are seeking unspecified damages for assault, sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and false imprisonment. The suit claims that Kwon was gambling at Caesar's Palace on March 18, 2000 when Angelil introduced himself, reports Reuters. Later that night, Angelil approached Kwon again and offered her concert tickets. The suit alleges that Angelil followed Kwon back to the Imperial Palace, where she was a guest, and into an elevator where he fondled her, according to Reuters. Kwon accuses Angelil of forcing his way into her hotel room and assaulting her, the complaint charges. Although Kwon called hotel security, reports Reuters, the alleged assault was never reported to the Las Vegas police. Angelil, in a statement, vowed to fight the lawsuit and force the Kwons to repay all of the earlier settlement money they had received, which he plans to give to charity.

Rene Charles is fine looking. Angelil didn't have the gene pool to put that out. Plus the odds of two brown eyed mixed race people putting out a fair blue eyed kid like that are next to nil.

The way the family was dressed, the fur, feathers, it was a massive movie production and that makes me suspicious to her grief in light of all the rumors about him in the tabs when they went to Vegas. I think it was just for show and publicity.

That report was proven to be false. So sure he was hitting on her but the woman invited him back. She did jail time for lying under oath. She still got a payout from Celine. This is probably when she shipped RC back home. Rene was shady.

[quote]Was this televised in Canada? Is Celine treated like royalty up there? Because, this dirty old man she married isn't really a celebrity in real countries.

HONEY!!!

" Follow Celine DionVerified account ‏@celinedion

From anywhere across the globe, it will be possible to follow René Angélil's state funeral online tomorrow: "

Okay R208, then I'm not crazy. I noticed this high brow low brow dichotomy. Sometimes people would come off like aristocratic and sophisticated and then switch right into being down to earth and laughing at the drop of a hat.

R209, who has posted 45 of the posts on this thread, has now stepped up her Celine worship with anti-Semitic comments. She thinks she can post the same thing over and over and seem like an army of Dionites.

Amazing how these crazies fixate - she HAS to stop the people who think this is funny, while drooling over the family members. Family's members. A complete idiot - perfect.

R212, I think the grief is genuine because he died of cancer. One always feels robbed when cancer is the culprit. Plus her brother died 2 days later.. I think the Quebec govt. allowed this to be a state funeral because of all the money it would bring into Montreal. The winter carnival is kicking off in Quebec City so Montreal is trying to grab some bucks for itself. They fill hotels and restaurants with all of the press and mourners. It's a show of respect but also a money grab by government officials.

ALWAYS tasteful. Always lovely. Always….

Celine.

I think I love Celine after reading this thread!!! Up until now I only thought of her occasionally if I heard that "because you loved me" song (so maybe 3 times) because my 1996 graduating high school class decided it would be a good idea to sing that at the graduation. It was a train wreck.

Dionites? An army of Dionites. Merci.

Tasteful & Celine Dion should never be uttered together.

Tasteful & Celine Dion should never be uttered together.

Celine is a dork and a cornball whose musical taste is for shit, but I can't not like her.

For Christ's sake, would someone please shit in my mouth?????

This asshole thinks "queeny" and "Jewy" are insults. Kill it with fire.

There have been a few BIs in the past few years that she has been involved with a woman for awhile. One said it was her personal assistant. On the other thread a poster listed them. So yeah, those rumors are out there.

Celine has always had a ... dyslexic fashion sense.

I'll have to go looking for other thread.

Check out R224 losing her shit. Online & on a Celine post..on a Saturday night, no less.

Priceless

Daily mail says Trudeau was there but are their pics. I thought he was in Suisse

Gregoire-Trudeau was there -- the wife.

R228, you're the homophobe who's posted boringly 50 times on this thread.

How about you eat that shit the poster mentioned? If you don't mind being a cannibal.

Just ignore the control-freak asshole. I did and the thread shrank and became more interesting. I noticed the posts being black-lined before I did, so other people got sick of it. Celine loves the Jews, after all.

Luci's son did the "Li'l Saluter" routine at LBJ's funeral - looks like Lady Bird was in on the joke.

One more - giving new meaning to the concept of a tasteful funeral.

^ Gives new meaning to the phrase, "Eat me."

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This just makes me laugh for some reason...

"Can some Canadians answer this? Was he really that huge in Canada to warrant all this?"

It's a Quebec thing. It was even called a national funeral, but in the sense of the "distinct nation" of Quebec, not the rest of Canada.

Jesus, they even managed to plug her Vegas show in his obituary! I am HOWLING!!!

Finally. The control freak homophobe is now black-lined out.

Thanks, R235. I wonder if the whole troupe is going to book a funeral train to Vegas. They DID bury the body, right? It's not going on the road with them, is it?

English-speaking Canada shudders to think of what we can expect for Celine's own funeral. A national holiday in Quebec?

Jockeying for control of a Celine Dion post on a Saturday. What a life you must lead. If you can call it a life.

And yet here you are, with your - is it 50 posts now? - need to keep at it playing the games your mother used to put you down. That really had an effect on your limited rhetorical skills, cunt.

Celine called. She said you bore her as much as you bore the rest of us.

It takes a lot of F&Fs to get black-lined. Do take it personally, cunt.

I really don't want to get in the middle of this flame war, but I don't see any"black-lined" posts, R242. I've seen them in other posts, though. I thought it meant that those are the posts of someone who has "Ignored" you, not vice versa, and not someone who has been F&Fed necessarily. I could be wrong, but still, I don't see any posts on this thread with a strikethrough.

R242, bwah. Fail. Wah Wah Wah waaaah.

[quote]Oh, God... There's more to come....

tl;dr

I'm really hoping it's true about those blinds. I hope she was seeing others all of this time. It seems like René stole her youth.

Tracey Ullman as Celine Dion doing a parody of her now infamous Larry King interview.

"They are sexually activating all over this city!"

R225, that's exactly what I read in that blind item. Allegedly, Celine would hire these college aged women as personal assistants, however, it was all a ruse, for her to have herself her girlfriend next to her at all times.

Those rumors aren't true but who the fuck cares, right? Celine Dion is a lesbian and a slut on DL. She is not a lesbian. Those who know her hope that she had a little love with JJ Goldman or Garou. Actually she did, with one of them. For quite some time.

Did she kiss her dead husband on the lips?

Otherwise the circus means nothing!

The two little kids are straight out of "The Shining". Children in black, and recorded music...how dreadfully tacky!

[quote]She is not a lesbian

Maybe not, but being one child of 14 children.... SOMEBODY is gay in here somewhere!

CELINE DION: WHY DO MANY GAYS HATE HER?

Amateur!

"... a modern Pygmalion"—??? The obit might as well have called him "a modern Svengali." It sounds especially grotesque coming among easily disproven hyperboles like "an unprecedented visionary" and "a Renaissance man." But whatever.

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I'm coming Celine

R243, I don't want to get there, either, and have "ignored" the homophobe anti-Jewish thread controller, but there were lines all through many posts here, and now there aren't. I don't understand what happens with the lining-out, or why they'd disappear.

At least we can skip the person ruining this thread.

I see them now and have been, but not in all of the troll's posts. Just ignore it and let it go.

OK, the funeral was... not to my taste... but I have to say Celine conducted herself with great dignity for something so public. She seems sincere in all things. The children were in vitro, weren't they? I think the elder resembles his father around the eyes.

Ah, Je suis tres desolee! Mon cher Rene---j'taime! Je ne peux pas vivre sans toi! * le sob *

I am a bit surprised she's already in half mourning.

Yes, she showed dignity, but because of the setting and staging it seemed like a bizarre overlay of performance over reality, or the other way around. Her dignity was so relentlessly grand. But I don't think anyone knocking this affaire absurde questions her being a grieving widow.

The funeral was waaay over the top R260, but she really should be given a lot of credit for staying as long as she did at the wake and greeting each mourner, whether they be a fan or celebrity, personally. How many of the famous would do that? Also, its been a long time since I've seen a funeral where the vast majority wore black and were dressed properly.

R264, but it has never been considered needed or even appropriate for a widow at a funeral to "greet" people at the public event. This was just their "fan handling" mode kicking in. Not that it was inappropriate - the whole thing just has to be seen as an old-fashioned entertainment industry funeral. What makes it hard to remember that is the grand old-world stylings pulled in.

All of mah chorus bois will wear black thongs in mah Vegas shows from now on, in 'onor of mah beloved hus-band Rene!

Who could have know that Rene would be struck down at 105 in his prime!

You gotta love the "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" post at 3:06.

[quote]This interview with Celine, taking place during Hurricane Katrina, gives some insight into her personality. She practically has a nervous breakdown on video here.

Her interviews are just as bad as ones with Ricky Martin. They're both completely unaware of just how stupid they come across when they're not speaking from a script.

[quote]barbrastreisandDear @CelineDion - Every time you look at your children’s faces, you will see René.

Nice try, Babs. Rene was so old his sperm didn't even float anymore, much less swim...

Well, I don't have anyone on ignore and a lot of posts are now missing on the thread on my screen. Never saw that before.

The USA has Carter and Bush funerals coming in the next few years, but they won't be anything like this. NOTHING will be anything like this. US celebrities GET big funerals. They don't give them.

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[quote]This just makes me laugh for some reason...

Why the fuck did they put his glasses on? He won't need them in Purgatory.

OOOOO.... SOMEDAY NEEDS TO BE FIRED!

*somebody*

Sorry for the mistake. I was startled!

Where's the rosary? Shouldn't she be nervously shuffling a rosary? Doesn't it come as part of the veil set anymore?

My God R76, that video is creepy. I have sympathy for her and her children, but the video cameras, clapping, her music playing, is just odd and creepy. At one point someone is even heard whistling.

R277, what helped me was "It's Vegas on the road in Quebec," and then it all cleared up. This was just a Vegas Circque performance in a temporary venue, and in winter you can get churches there cheap. Because no widow who wasn't just playing dress up would show up the next day for her brother's memorial in half-mourning garb, as someone rightly pointed out. They don't have a clue about the conventions they're merely imitating for show-biz values. NOT that the grief isn't real. Somewhere.

Does anyone know when Celine plans to start performing again?

But I will say, for a particular person who has been hyper-invested in the thread in a negative way, BWAA HAA HAA. Who has the last laugh now?

ooooh! arby's is gonna be soo mad!

I love her outfit in r267 for her brother's funeral: tasteful, classy, and occasion-appropriate. As a matter of fact, all her recent outfits are very on point; bravo to her current stylist for having excellent taste.

Sorry I meant r256.

Could it be possible, that even grudgingly, DL is in a majority view that Celine Dion is in fact a DL Favourite? Because the posts and even the sympathy seem to be trending her way.

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Music to read this long long long long thread by ..................

celine dion's music has always been shitty. i hate her even more now. she's ugly and shitty in every way.

Yes, R285. But you lack the discipline and English skills to use capital letters, which makes you even worse than Celine Dion's shit trail in her mourning granny panties.

We're sorry, but the truth sometimes is needed.

R283, applauding someone who switches from full mourning to half/non-mourning the next for her brother's memorial should not be considered.

She should be granted the lack of attention appropriate to people in mourning - something that she seems unaware of - and talked about behind her back for her disgraceful lack of grace and decorum in playing show-off at a time when she should keep out of the public eye.

Obviously she and her handlers are unconcerned about the traditions they are debasing - she's a lounge singer from the wrong side of the tracks who married her abusing controller and made a fortune warbling like an over-the-top sparrow spray-painted pink.

We, as the public, need to let Celine mourn and grieve in private for now.

Private?! Bite your damn tongue, R288!

If she allows us to let her disappear into her grief, R288.

But she IS returning to the stage in Vegas 2/23! She took a month off. Can't wait to see what the new facelift looks like - you know she saw the funeral photos and has to get ready for "Celine's Chapter 2 - The Rebirth of Beauty" - complete with new beaus!

Why didn't she let her hair down for her husband's funeral? She looked much better at her brother's funeral, or whatever family viewing of dead bodies is called (is that a Canadian thing?). And cut your kids hair! They're not Fabio.

I'll give her a pass especially when considering her brother's death happening so close. That's a special club. Not many people experience dealing with the death of loved ones so close together. I had a great uncle who buried his son, and the very next morning his daughter, (she attended her brother's funeral), died.

Her dress, and the color of it, were appropriate for her brother. Besides, this was just the wake. They still have to have the funeral for him.

My family is Catholic and we do the open casket thing (which still flips me out) but those glasses really threw me.

I can't get past this. It's so PERFECT.

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Oh, Lord! Will it ever end?

[quote]While planning his own funeral to ease wife Céline Dion's burden, René Angélil decided to evoke their grand 1994 wedding in more ways than one.

LOL!

This hussy is not worthy to carry the name Dion. I show you bitches some real casket shade!

[quote]This hussy is not worthy to carry the name Dion.

What? So sad...

[quote]family viewing of dead bodies is called (is that a Canadian thing?)

We call it the visitation... 2 -4, 7 - 9 at the funeral home. Usually just one day. Two if you're important. The family stands in the room, visitors sign the book, view the body and condole. Funeral follows the next day. Don't Americans do this?

Americans do it -- it's a Catholic thing in California, but I think everyone in the south does it.

I don't know of any traditional Christian funeral that has no viewing, when an interment follows. Do any of you read the obituary pages?

Eyeglasses are to have the deceased resemble his living self.

Man, I had no idea so many were clueless about funeral ceremonies, attire of mourners, modern traditions of recordng the funeral or taking photos in memoriam, etc.

American Catholics have a wake during the late afternoon to mid-evening, with the recitation of the rosary being the center and highlight of the evening. Usually, other prayers, as well as testimonies by loved ones, are included. The following day, there is a final viewing in the morning before the casket is closed, followed by a funeral Mass (which is usually very beautiful and austere), with hymns such as the Ave Maria being sung. Finally, there is the procession to the cemetery, followed by the burial ceremony (no one actually gets to see the casket lowered into the ground, I guess to prevent people from hurling themselves in there like the olden days), and then the funeral reception, where tons of food is usually served either at the family's home or at another appropriate location.

They are very exhausting.

R303, yes, but in my Catholic family it was usual to have two days at the funeral home (unless the body was kept at the house, which also was done at times, or laid out in the church, which also is done). In those two-day viewings and then the funeral the next day, there is a rosary both days, and sometimes twice each day, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. If the priest shows he also leads prayers. And if the person was a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Knights of Malta, or another of the pseudo-"we're not Masons but this is close" organizations, another special ceremony is conducted at the funeral home. FInally, if the person was a member of such organizations as the Legion of Mary, the Christian Mothers, the Benevolent Society, the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and/or others, those groups also would assemble for additional prayers, and one would guide the rosaries.

Funeral masses may be considered austere but properly include incense and prayers at the door, then a procession down the aisle for the Mass (with tall candles lining both sides of the box, followed by another stop at the door for more incense, prayers and holy water before the exit.

Good Catholic funeral processions include both the trip to the church and then the trip to the cemetery, the latter often including a pass through the neighborhood and the person's house.

Not to detract further from your excellent post, you did skimp a bit on what the funeral luncheon and reception usually entails. The reception often takes place at the church (parish center, church basement), so everyone has to return to the site of the funeral Mass. THEN, after the church ladies serve everyone, a second reception takes place at the house of the family member hosting everyone. More food, lots of booze, then more food, and eventually an extended drinking session (often now augmented by pot, at least, among the younger set) in which all sorts of things happen, from brawls to revelations of secrets to odd make-out sessions.

In the most traditional families, someone does indeed stay for the actual burial, and the family members often returns to the cemetery the next day.

But does that sound exhausting to you? Think of it as a Bizarro version of a wedding but in place of a tedious Bridezilla the main focus is a quiet corpse that does not intrude on the proceedings. Unless, as I once saw, the coffin is dropped on the church steps.

Thanks for the additional details, R304! I have never experienced a wake being held in the home, but I know they still take place. It would give me a serious case of the hebes if I knew I had to pass by a corpse on my way to take a leak. I've also never experienced a double reception (one at the Church and another at the home). In my neck of the woods, it's always one or the other, but they last for *hours*.

I've been a pall bearer, and my fear has always been to drop the casket. Although I did trip once and came pretty close, LOL (sorry, grandma!). That must've been a sight to behold! I hope nothing rolled out...

I forgot to mention the open casket at the wake, where the guests line up and the closest family members and friends usually kiss the corpse (on the lips, cheeks, forehead, etc) and then stay to take pictures (with the corpse!) afterwards. It freaks the living fuck out of me every time. You always walk away with that particular stinging taste on your lips and that particular smell in your nostrils. Ack.

Do other religions have this?

I apologize for being a know-it-all, R03. I just enjoy funerals. So long as I don't have a stake in them.

I never kissed a corpse. I'll pat a hand and shoo a fly if I have to.

The two-day lay-out is receding in popularity because people are cheap. Other religions that do it big are the Orthodox Christians - I went to a Greek funeral in 2002 that I think is still going on. Blacks have epic funerals. Nothing starts on time (biracial here so don't come at me), people come and go, you have to have at least two collapses, and the food never stops afterwards. Jewish funerals I've been to have had the best food - catered - but they've been Reform so there's been shorter services and better clothes. Orthodox Jews and Muslims want to get the burial done very fast, but the after-events go on a long time. I've only known one Jewish family that sat Shiva, so technically the event lasted seven days, the family all in the same house with the mirrors covered and people coming and going. Talk about exhausting.

I was a good Catholic altar boy and loved funerals because I'd get out of school and travel in a limo with the priest. Outdoor incense is a bitch to light - well, you light the charcoal - but we had black Dracula-style silk and velvet capes to wear over the cassock and surplice and as I'd ride in the limo I felt like something out of a vampire movie. Except for all the crucifixes.

In all my "work" funerals I only saw one leap into the grave. Italian. First one son and then a daughter, not wanting to be shown up. "Take me with her! Bury me with her! My life is over!" I was mortified. The priest calmly waiting, whispering that it was "traditional."

Again, please excuse me and none of this has anything to do with the Widow Angelil's travesty. What a ghastly show - less Catholic than Vegas parody of Catholic.

Loved it all, R306. WW for the very delicious vividness!

What is that horrid bat-wing looking thing on her head???

She looks AWFUL and I don't mean just distraught awful. I mean OLD.

Girlfriend needs to take a page outta Madge and Janet's book and have a little WERK done.

I don't think Jews or Muslims show off the body the way Catholics do.

[quote]The two-day lay-out is receding in popularity because people are cheap

I also think its because connections change. People just don't give a shit about each other or manners as much. So if you would have gone out of respect but not obligation twenty years ago, twenty yeas on you might not.

1) Those twins' hair is far too long and inappropriate. 2) Her relationship with him always seemed creepy to the general public 3) She had to have steadied herself for this inevitable day - he was so much older

THAT being said, the double whammy of husband and brother is really gutting. She has to do another funeral tomorrow for her brother.

Well, I'm ready for MY eventualities, dears.

Thank God that asshole homophobic anti-Semite quit trolling and trying to control the thread. Because Celine deserves better.

I have to write that I have enjoyed this thread! It's running its course now, but it sure has been fun!!! I still chuckle over that; "Can't take it anymore" posting!!! I suppose we all shall reconvene when the Vegas performance happens!

If she *didn't* look haggard, that would be strange. She's grieving, do you bitches expect her to look refreshed?

Why do the kids have such long hair? Celine doesn't seem like the hippie type. Not even close.

Right, R134. That "Like a Butterfly, She Re-Emerges into New Beauty" routine is going to be priceless.

And the love-life stories. Christ. Maybe Barry Manilow can discover he's actually bisexual for her.

Avreed, r303. At my mother's funeral Mass last October, I had Schubert's "Ave Maria" played. Her name was Marie (I'm watching "Goodfellas" now, and had to laugh at the wedding reception scene where the new Mrs. Hill says, "And it seemed all the women were named Marie.").

"Agreed"

The 2-day funeral might or might not be "receding." My cousin in January had this, as did an uncle who was very popular. My mother, I had the viewing in the church the same burial day.

It sometimes is a matter of convenience for the expected visitors, but often it seems to be what appointment times are available to be co-ordinated.

Back to Celine: She was not going to be less "her" than she was on her wedding day in the same cathedral.

And the boys' hair length seems very "European royalty" to me.

Same here, R317. I think the Ave Maria (either the Schubert or Bach/Gounod composition) have been played and/or sung at every family funeral that I can remember. Both versions are very beautiful.

My sincere condolences for the recent loss of your mom.

[quote]And the boys' hair length seems very "European royalty" to me.

From what century?

Let's concede that the fedora-like hats do not seem very "European royalty," though. They give the bookend twins an odd Cousin It-like appearance.

Thank you very much, r320.

R321, the Casiraghi boys, e.g.

There are so many difficulties and technicalities, sometimes everything goes wrong. Celine cannot always be spectacular. But she always does her best. She will dance with her father again. This is what I always dream.

So, she's a no-show at the brother's funeral. She's too grief-stricken to continue with "public" mourning....

Well....?

Ahem... oops...

"“These funerals are reserved for people who have really done great things for Quebec – politically, socially culturally,” Pelletier told CBC News. “René Angélil has done great things for Céline Dion in the United States, mostly. But in terms of Quebec?...."

Thoughtful hubby till the end..,

[quote] I don't think Jews or Muslims show off the body the way Catholics do.

Observant (unassimilated) Jews do not do open casket out of respect for the dead nor cremation. Body is washed, wrapped in a shroud and buried within 24 hours. 7 days of mourning (where the word "shiva" - seven - comes from), where the immediate family - wife/husband/kids/brothers/sister/parents - sits on the floor or on low chairs and receives condolers. Non-bereaved family/friends/neighbors provide food and take care of everything during shiva. A minyan (quorum of 10 men over the age of 13) is held at least once a day in the home so that the bereaved can say Kaddish, the prayer for the death, which they will recite daily for 11 months and then several times a year for the rest of their lives.

Lots of recent Bowie pics on Brian Eno's Twitter.

Sorry, wrong dead person thread. Though a Brian Eno/Celine connection would be funny.

Was I the only one who was creeped out when the one twin kissed the doll, and handed it to the other one? I swear the face looked like Witchiepoo. Or was that Mère?

r325: Too grief-stricken? Too embarrassed is more like it. This clueless bitch got called out for being a shameless attention whore. Her husband's funeral was gaudy and vulgar.

R324, not a fan of her music, but I remember watching that mess when it happened, and I immediately became of a fan of her professionalism.

She speaks!

"My family and I are deeply touched by the outpouring of love and support from so many people who, (it was actually cries for mercy), have touched our lives during these past few days," (did we have a choice?) her letter read. "We have felt your love for René, and your prayers and compassion, (only pleas to go away), have helped us during this most difficult time... more than you'll ever know. I thank you from the bottom of my heart."

Oh! More to come next week in Vegas!!!!

Did we ever find out why her toddlers have hair all the way down their backs?

Probably just bad taste regarding hair for children...

Aha, hair mystery solved. She lets the kids make their own decisions about hair.

And her 5 year old, Nelson, likes to wear her heels. She says he looks better in them than she does. Refreshingly, she doesn't mention the word "trans" once in regard to him. She seems to be fine with having a potentially gay son.

Alright y'all! Get ready and dress appropriately!

The tribute will be live streamed tonight at 10 p.m. ET on reneangelilcelebrationoflife

With special guests;

Producer David Foster

René’s family, including his brother Andre, daughter Anne Marie, son Jean-Pierre, son Patrick, and son René-Charles.

The Event of the year!

R258 is frightening. My God..or Mon Dieux!

306 was great reading

Omg my, R313 is still at it days later! Now that's what we call a "bender" of the highest of heavens.

"A giant gold hand, meant to represent René Angelil's legacy and contribution to the arts and to showbusiness, was unveiled on stage."

[quote]The twins look like they are just a dye job away from living with the countess at the Hotel Cortez.

Oh, that thought was crawling around in your head too, because that's all I saw.

LOL.

R189) I saw that episode, and she indeed shocked me how down to earth she appeared. I am jaded, and I don't fall for this.

R200) I so agree with everything you said.

"Celine's tasteful décolletage"

Are you kidding? Again, too over-the-top!

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The never-ending casket dance continues tonight! Livestream from Ceasar's Palace at 10:30 PM.

Exactly when does the mourning period end for French Canadian women?

She is currently on a Quebec and Paris tour. In her recent Montreal shows she begins to weep in the opening number and apparently carries through the entire show in tears, no costume changes or anything. La veuve Angelil indeed.

Bump.

That mole on Celine's neck looks mighty suspicious.

She should have it looked at.

This is what passes for national news in Canada ?? ughhh...so embarrassing

Does the son have a big French dick?

Am I the only one who thinks she's a closeted lez?

Let's not forget Megan McCain's casket dance!

Photo in R8, direct sunlight is not a friend to a widow in her late 40s.