Celine in Vanity Fair Magazine

[Star1996]

Just got a bunch of magazines in the mail and there is a one page article about Celine in the "out to lunch" segment in Jan's Vanity Fair with Lady Gaga on the cover. There are no photos in the article. Check it out the next time you go to the store.

[stchba]

Please scan it for us.

[ghazal]

Yes please scant it. Thx!

[frana]

Here is the cover

 

 

New Vanity Fair January 2012

 

Et Cetera : Celine Dion

 

[Matej]

Here is the cover

 

New Vanity Fair January 2012

 

Et Cetera : Celine Dion

 

 

Thank you my friend for sharing!

[PriscillaBarragan]

I'm not sure if this is the full article but here you go anyway. Nothing we didn't know before.

 

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/12/05/sh.../#disqus_thread

[Star1996]

That article was a little diff but almost the same. Edited December 7, 2011 at 04:24 AM by Star1996

[ferjaacu]

Thank u both for the news and the article

[anewdayhascome]

1It's said to be a high-levelled magazine and no photoshoot? that's a shame

[I Love You]

Thanks for the news, and article.

[CelineAndRene]

I don't know if this has been posted or not, but this appeared in my twitter feed!!! Interesting article... Rene wasn't Celine's first kiss.

 

Celine Dion has been married to her manager, Rene Angelil, since 1994. But in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, the singer admits to kissing someone else! (Gasp!)

 

But rest easy, Dion fans; the situation isn't nearly as scandalous as it seems. The Canadian superstar met Angelil when she was just 12 (and he was 38), so it's no surprise that Dion describes her hubby as "the first and only man" in her life. But the singing icon revealed in Vanity Fair that her description isn't entirely accurate, because she once locked lips with another man -- when she was 15.

 

According to Dion, the kiss took place on the porch of her sister's house.

 

"He was a very cute guy. He was definitely cuter than I thought I was, for sure," said Dion. "But for me to give a kiss was a big deal in those days. I was, like, 15, and I think it scared me. I didn't even know what we were doing. His name was Sylvain."

 

"How could you, Celine?" joked interviewer John Heilpern.

 

So, what ever happened to Dion's long, lost love?

 

"I don't know," she said. "I hope the best for him."

 

Maybe Sylvain is still waiting for Dion to return, listening to "My Heart Will Go On" on an endless loop and getting teary-eyed every time he walks by that fateful porch. Or maybe not.

 

http://ca.omg.yahoo.com/blogs/north-stars/...-165951833.html

[BLM]

Vanity Fair Article

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/01/celine-dion-201201

 

Caesars Princess

Celine Dion—Oprah’s favorite celebrity guest—has 3,000 pairs of shoes, and her feet on the ground.

Celine Dion, who is among the most successful female recording artists on the planet, kindly gave me lunch in the gazebo of her estate on Jupiter Island, Florida, where her white mansion facing the Atlantic Ocean shimmers in the sun and all seems well with the world. The family butler, a Frenchman known as Mr. Jean-Jacques, served us lunch.

“This is a little bit different from the house you were raised in,” I suggested.

“A little bit, yes,” she replied. “I grew up in a very, very, very small house.”

Celine Marie Claudette Dion, who’s now 43, was raised in French-speaking Charlemagne, Quebec, the daughter of an accordionist. (She still speaks English with a slight French accent.) She’s the youngest of 14 siblings, all of them musical.

“Where did you all sleep?” I asked.

“My mum was brilliant enough to put a pillow in a drawer for a baby to sleep in. We were safe and warm and taken care of. Three or four of us in the same bed was normal to us. We weren’t poor, but we never had money. I don’t know if that makes sense. We were given love and affection and support. What else did we need?”

Mr. Jean-Jacques brought us cauliflower vichyssoise, to be followed by quiche and salad, fresh berries with sabayon, and coffee.

“Bon appétit!” said Celine.

“I hear you’re a bit of a shoe freak,” I mentioned over the quiche.

“Does that mean if you have, let’s say, 600 pairs of shoes, you’re considered a freak?”

“Not necessarily.”

“O.K. I have about 3,000 pairs.”

I practically fell into one of the two pools.

From the start of our lunch that pleasant day, Celine Dion struck me unexpectedly as a thoughtful, good-hearted goddess of pop. Family means everything to her. If she is a diva, she’s a chatty diva. But the lady is an open book. She cannot tell a fib.

“Some people do drugs,” she added, “and I buy shoes.”

The love of her life, it’s well known, is Rene Angelil, her longtime manager and husband, who discovered her when she was 12 years old and mortgaged his home to finance her first record. I reminded her that she’s always said that he’s “the first and only man of my life.”

“Yes, the first and only,” she confirmed, “unless you count the kiss I gave somebody else on the porch of my sister’s house.”

“How could you, Celine?”

“He was a very cute guy. He was definitely cuter than I thought I was, for sure. But for me to give a kiss was a big deal in those days. I was, like, 15, and I think it scared me. I didn’t even know what we were doing. His name was Sylvain.”

“What happened to him?”

“I don’t know. I hope the best for him.”

Celine Dion reportedly has a three-year, $100 million contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The Colosseum theater was built specially for her with another staggering investment, of $95 million. It’s as if she’s a one-woman stimulus package for the revival of the town’s flagging economy. Her appearances are planned around her 10-year-old son’s school vacations. The 90-minute shows, which charge Broadway ticket prices, regularly sell out.

The 4,300 seats in the Colosseum make it even bigger than New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. “We played the Stade de France arena in Paris, and it holds over 80,000 people,” she said evenly. “So to perform for 4,000 is really quite intimate.”

“Even the most accomplished performers still suffer from stage fright, and I wonder if you ever do.”

“Sometimes I do. It’s like making a high dive. I’m not scared to jump. The nerves come in the breath before you leap off the board.”

“Do you know that when Liberace came onstage in Las Vegas wearing an ankle-length chinchilla coat his adoring fans would roar with delight, and he’d say to them—”

“ ‘You paid for it!’ ” she leapt in. “My fans bought me this house. They bought my records. But, you know, I don’t just sing for free. It’s my work. You’re paid for what you do. And I work hard. But a lot of people work hard and they don’t have anything. I was very fortunate, and people have bought my albums year after year, and they come to see the shows, and it’s expensive, and they still come.”

Celine Dion well understands her vast following. (Her online fan club, TeamCeline, has about a million fans globally.) “It’s maybe difficult for some people to believe that even though I do have an extraordinary life,” she explained, “I am a normal person.”

Her remarkable, soaring voice and sentimental songs of love and yearning have proved enduringly popular. Near, far, wherever you are / I believe that the heart does go on. But she knows that her audience also connects emotionally to the true stories she tells about herself. With a record 27 appearances, she is Oprah Winfrey’s favorite celebrity guest, talking about such personal topics as her husband’s cancer scare and her struggle to give birth to their children through in-vitro fertilization. The giddy outcome is a lovefest in which legions of Dion fans bond with the reality behind the fairy tale they helped to create.

“Can I bring the boys?” she asked as lunch ended.

“Our eldest is at school,” explained her husband, who had ambled across the grounds to join us as she went to fetch the one-year-old twins, Nelson and Eddy. They emerged in stately, picture-perfect procession from the shimmering white manse in two identical white-and-beige baby carriages with their hoods raised to shield them from the sun. A Labrador came romping ahead.

“This is Nelson,” Celine said, introducing us. “Say bonjour monsieur!” Nelson seemed to be taking my measure, peering quizzically up at me. But his mom started to sing “Elmo’s World,” and he gave us a smile at last. “And this is Eddy.” And then Eddy started to sing, too, which made us all laugh. He was singing something at the top of his little voice.

“He’s singing like Stevie Wonder,” his mom explained. “He’s showing off for you! They’re show-business people.”

[duri]

Thank you so much for article, very nice interview.

[Celine_Fan_1992]

I got this magazine last night

[CelineTheBest5]

Great article, I love it!

[PriscillaBarragan]

Thanks everyone!

[celinemaniacaik]

thanks

[ashtonelijah]

Yikes, I tried to post this as a new topic. Here's the link with the cartoon:

 

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/01/celine-dion-201201

[Koolan]

Nice interview. She should be featured in more high profile magazines.

[Matej]

Nice interview, thanks for posting!

[frana]

Thank you for the article

Nice interview

[stchba]

I just bought the magazine!! Here is the scan!!

[Matej]

Nice scan, thanks Stephanie!

[frana]

Thank you for the scan

[stchba]

You are welcome Matej & Frana!!

[NancyxxM]

Thank-you. Its a sweet little interview:')

[celine-rc]

Thank you so much for the scan!!!

[duri]

Thank you for scan, interesting picture.

[volleyceline]

they always stick that little intro "humble beginnings in a province of quebec" lmao thanks for the scan! i would have loved to sketch celine out like that and i love how they know she has her feet planted on the ground (with her ginormous variety of shoes being sported) lol

 

thanks.

[scielle]

I wish Vanity Fair did a full-on story about Celine. All she ever gets is fluffy coverage in superficial tabloids, which has lately turned super-sensational and, at times, kinda crass. I'd so love a proper in-depth profile. She's had such a fascinating life so far; it would make for great material and the VF writers are always so good at digging deeper in their long-form stories.