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Salon du Livre: René Angélil will be there. What about Céline Dion?
By Pat Donnelly Thu, Nov 19 2009 COMMENTS(0) Stage and Page with Pat Donnelly
Filed under: Céline Dion, Michel Tremblay, Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté, Ian Halperin, Salon du Livre, Nathalie McLennan, Yann M, Georges-Hébert Germain, Denise Bombardier, La Diva, TV5
SALON DU LIVRE DE MONTRÉAL
Montreal's annual mega book fair began yesterday at Place Bonaventure. And, sad to say, I haven't yet found time to pay a visit, although I did write a brief intro story for today's paper pointing out that it may be possible to see the likes of celeb-chaser Ian Halperin and his buddy, former prostitute Nathalie McLennan, at the Salon, hawking the French versions of their books. McLennan, you may recall, contributed to Halperin's muckraking book on Cirque du Soleil owner Guy Laliberté by claiming to having once spent an adventurous night in Laliberté's company, along with another woman of her profession.
To make things even more surreal at the Salon, in addition to hundreds of authors of the most boring books imaginable as well as those, like Michel Tremblay and Yann Martel, who have penned works of true literary and/or commercial merit, René Angélil will put in some book-signing time there, on Saturday, between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Not that the man best known as the husband and manager of Céline Dion has written a book. He'll be helping Georges-Hébert Germain sell copies of his authorized (read fawning) biography of Angélil, titled Le maître du jeu.
Denise Bombardier, who will be at the Salon promoting her biography of Dion, titled L'Énigmatique Céline Dion, probably isn't going to get the same kind of help from Quebec's international songbird. But who knows? Bombardier researched the book by following Dion around the globe for a year. And they seem to be quite chummy. Keep your eyes peeled. Just about everybody who is anybody in the francophone artistic and literary worlds visits the Salon du Livre. Why not Céline?
Here's a link to a TV5 television interview that Bombardier did with Dion. I'm not sure of the date. (Please let me know if you can pin it down.) Bombardier also wrote a song for Dion, titled La Diva, and the singer actually recorded it in 2006. So much for journalistic distance. I'm guessing that Bombardier's book isn't exactly a warts-and-all biography either.
By Pat Donnelly Thu, Nov 19 2009 COMMENTS(0) Stage and Page with Pat Donnelly
Filed under: Céline Dion, Michel Tremblay, Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté, Ian Halperin, Salon du Livre, Nathalie McLennan, Yann M, Georges-Hébert Germain, Denise Bombardier, La Diva, TV5
SALON DU LIVRE DE MONTRÉAL
Montreal's annual mega book fair began yesterday at Place Bonaventure. And, sad to say, I haven't yet found time to pay a visit, although I did write a brief intro story for today's paper pointing out that it may be possible to see the likes of celeb-chaser Ian Halperin and his buddy, former prostitute Nathalie McLennan, at the Salon, hawking the French versions of their books. McLennan, you may recall, contributed to Halperin's muckraking book on Cirque du Soleil owner Guy Laliberté by claiming to having once spent an adventurous night in Laliberté's company, along with another woman of her profession.
To make things even more surreal at the Salon, in addition to hundreds of authors of the most boring books imaginable as well as those, like Michel Tremblay and Yann Martel, who have penned works of true literary and/or commercial merit, René Angélil will put in some book-signing time there, on Saturday, between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Not that the man best known as the husband and manager of Céline Dion has written a book. He'll be helping Georges-Hébert Germain sell copies of his authorized (read fawning) biography of Angélil, titled Le maître du jeu.
Denise Bombardier, who will be at the Salon promoting her biography of Dion, titled L'Énigmatique Céline Dion, probably isn't going to get the same kind of help from Quebec's international songbird. But who knows? Bombardier researched the book by following Dion around the globe for a year. And they seem to be quite chummy. Keep your eyes peeled. Just about everybody who is anybody in the francophone artistic and literary worlds visits the Salon du Livre. Why not Céline?
Here's a link to a TV5 television interview that Bombardier did with Dion. I'm not sure of the date. (Please let me know if you can pin it down.) Bombardier also wrote a song for Dion, titled La Diva, and the singer actually recorded it in 2006. So much for journalistic distance. I'm guessing that Bombardier's book isn't exactly a warts-and-all biography either.
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I'm happy to hear that Celine is doing great health wise. I pray that everything works out for them. Wonder what the ''secret'' project is that they are working on...
) and that medicine is so much more advanced now than 10 years ago (when he came down with cancer) and that one has to trust the doctors and the technology.
I really hope she gets pregnant 
