A&E Biography Transcripts

[Victorine]

I understand what you mean by "to listen out", but what is the actual definition ? Is it like "to listen to" ? I guess for some people, they must think, like, is this girl normal ? (just kidding !!!) But I'm just learning, thaks to all of you !!!

[Victorine]

Also, Randy Jackson says in the first part, in the end: "That's gonna become like it did in the ratpack days, the thing to do in the place to be..." . What are the "Ratpack" days ???

[SFchick]

I understand what you mean by "to listen out", but what is the actual definition ? Is it like "to listen to" ? I guess for some people, they must think, like, is this girl normal ? (just kidding !!!) But I'm just learning, thaks to all of you !!!

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Yes i suppose so! To listen out to.

 

Also, Randy Jackson says in the first part, in the end: "That's gonna become like it did in the ratpack days, the thing to do in the place to be..." . What are the "Ratpack" days ???

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When Frank Sinetra and all the big 50's stars were in vegas and did like Celine is doing now!

[Victorine]

Thank you again !!

[dj_Tom]

a awesome work!!!

 

Thank you so very much everyone (and sorry for my english... I'm spanish). I understand Céline but that's a help for me!!!

[dj_Tom]

Sorry but... I don't know how to ask this, so, it comes in french:

 

Est-ce que vous savez où pourrais-je trouver la PREMIÈRE PARTIE de "A&E BIOGRAPHY"? J'ai déjà essayé à celinemaniacs mais ne marche pas et je leur ai envoyé un courriel mais ne m'ont toujours pas répondu.

 

Merci, Thank you!!!

[Bellamy]

Sorry but... I don't know how to ask this, so, it comes in french:

 

Est-ce que vous savez où pourrais-je trouver la PREMIÈRE PARTIE de "A&E BIOGRAPHY"? J'ai déjà essayé à celinemaniacs mais ne marche pas et je leur ai envoyé un courriel mais ne m'ont toujours pas répondu.

 

Merci, Thank you!!!

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downlaod all parts from our Multimedia Section.

[dj_Tom]

thank you... I'll found it!!! right now!!!

[dj_Tom]

I found only a TRAILER... what's the address exactly???

[Bellamy]

search "biography" in multimedia section.

[Koolan]

Great work, girls. always glad to see fans helping other fans, that's a big part of the reason why we're all here.

[Victorine]

Sorry but... I don't know how to ask this, so, it comes in french:

 

Est-ce que vous savez où pourrais-je trouver la PREMIÈRE PARTIE de "A&E BIOGRAPHY"? J'ai déjà essayé à celinemaniacs mais ne marche pas et je leur ai envoyé un courriel mais ne m'ont toujours pas répondu.

 

Merci, Thank you!!!

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It'd been months that I tried to download videos from this site, but it would always stop in the middle of it all. It's incredible the amount of time I must have spent, I mean wasted!! Now I just have a look at the news section. But here, the news come live, you do not wait, or whatever. This is not only a forum, it's just the best site in the world of Celine Dion !!!! Thanks to the team, it's a wonderful job!!!!

[Victorine]

Part 8 8:19

 

René: During our break, actually the first days of the break in year 2000, we brought our families here in Las Vegas to celebrate the new millennium. One of the activities was to go and see a show of Cirque Du Soleil called “O”.

 

Celine: When I saw that show, something “O”… “Tooph!” There’s something else out there!

 

René: Celine at the end said “When I come back, I’d like to be part of a show like that”.

 

Franco Dragone: After the show she went to see the artists, and the artists told me that she was so nice, so kind that I called René and I wrote a letter to Celine and René to tell them how I appreciate their kindness and like this we began to talk about a show together.

 

René: And my job was to find a place that could afford a show like that. I had a relationship with Caesars Palace. And on the first meeting, they thought it was a great idea and that’s how it happened.

 

Franco: From the first time when we had the idea to do a show until the premiere, it took 3 years. So it was a long process but it’s what it takes when you have to build a theatre, because you know, we built the theatre for Celine.

 

Celine: They’ve asked me what I wanted, what would make a difference, and I told them there is no theatre built especially for a singer, it’s a performance. Can be for boxe, can be for skating, can be for… nothing specifically for music and singers. Then, I wanted humidity. Try to humidify the desert, which was a big demand. I said the design room, the stage and where we live, the home.

 

Mark Juliano: They wanted to (?) room where she could be very close to the audience, which is why the stage is so large but also goes so close into the theatre.

 

Franco: We needed to think how we can do a theatre, intimate theatre, but with 4,000 people. So when you start to do a theatre in the long and half of the ?long?, the circle would be the audience, in the other half would be the stage.

 

[Celine: It feels high. Why do we wanna do it up like that ?]

 

Franco: We did a (?) stage because we wanted that the spectator at the balcony would have been as privileged as the one that is in front of the stage.

 

[Celine: We want everybody, every seat in the audience, ?for? them to be able to see a great show]

 

David Foster: I never have seen a bigger splash on any many event of her coming to Vegas.

 

Celine: I know a lot of people thought it was crazy. Everybody said “Live in Vegas, it’s ridiculous thing, sing in Vegas it’s even more ridiculous, as much money for the show, the Colosseum, the money”.

 

Jay Leno: People joking about Vegas and things, but…You have the best sound, you have the best lights, you have the most professional crews, I mean it’s really the best place probably in the world to hear a concert (?) performance. Because everything is perfect. You know a lot of times, you go to towns, it’s just… You know this room was built for Celine. It was built to be her room, for her ?characteristics?, for her exactly what she does.

 

[We see a taxi in town]

 

[Celine: What I’ve done in the past is to sing one song after the other with beautiful lights, beautiful talented people surrounding me... wardrobe , and… a round stage in the middle of the stadium and then… But I want also for the first time, I will be part of a show.]

 

Celine: I thought it was the chance of my life as a career as a singer to give to my fans a visual, not only me singing those songs but to put every single song of my whole career with a visual. A theatrical side of me.

 

Franco: For me, what was important at first is to know better of Celine. So the first thing I did, I read the book that Celine wrote about her life, I listened (to) a lot of her music.

 

[Franco, on October 21, 2002: The show has to be the kind of (?) balance between songs, dance and theatre.]

 

[Celine: Wow! It’s brilliant!]

 

Franco: René asked me to put in the songs that people know about Celine, I could not avoid these songs. So I was very scared sometimes to deceive, to disappoint the audience because they have built their whole… For instance, the famous song My Heart Will Go On, everybody hearing this song was thinking to a boat, Leonardo DiCaprio. So I decide not to go there, completely somewhere else. But I had to propose something unexpected too! So it was, I would not say a compromise but it was really an exchange between Celine, René and me.

 

René: She’s very theatrical, Celine. And so when she started rehearsing with this cast of 50 dancers, she felt like at home with them, they bonded very quickly. And she had the best teachers to teach her how to dance and to exercise to get in top shape to be able to do 5 shows a week.

 

[Celine: It was very emotional to see their work and to see Franco, the way he’s taking control and charge.]

 

Deon Ridley: The rehearsal process was really, really interesting. Franco Dragone basically used us like machines. No matter how talented or how accomplished most of us were in our careers, we began to that situation, it made us insecure because we were singled out in front of everybody.

 

[Franco: You show me who you are, not tell me who are you]

 

Elijah Brown: By the time we arrived in Vegas, we’d already spent 5 months together over in Belgium in this small town where every day we essentially lived, ate, slept, breathed, art and creation.

 

[Celine: Just to look at, just to look at it from there, it’s… I’m very very impressed and it’s such a hard work and I’m very tense and stressed… It’s true! “Number 9! Number 1!”

Celine: Now that it’s gonna be part of my show, I’m so happy! I’m not gonna be singing one song after the other.]

 

Franco: This is tradition in me, tradition in my way to work. Once I am sure that the show will be as I want at least, 90% or 10%, I’m never happy of the show. The day I would be happy I would stop to work. So after a few weeks of rehearsal I saw all the ingredients of the show, and I told to everybody in the microphone during our rehearsal “We have it”. Now we have it, it will be a show, I’m sure, it will work.

 

When we return, Celine takes Vegas by storm

René: Celine was very nervous. It was fantastic.

Carole King: The people (?) Caesars Palace, that (?) that Celine would (?) people and she is.

Celine: When you see a live artist, every night is different. They go crazy for you, because they know you’re true.

[Bellamy]

It'd been months that I tried to download videos from this site, but it would always stop in the middle of it all. It's incredible the amount of time I must have spent, I mean wasted!! Now I just have a look at the news section. But here, the news come live, you do not wait, or whatever. This is not only a forum, it's just the best site in the world of Celine Dion !!!! Thanks to the team, it's a wonderful job!!!!

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use flashget or other download manager, you can resume download at any time, so you don't need to waste your time.

thanks for your support. and can't wait for more French show transcripts, especially the new ones upcoming in this Oct.

[Victorine]

Thanks to all of you for your encouragement.

About the download process, if I may say, it's not about the time it takes to download, but the fact that without any reason, it stops, whether it's long or not, the video cannt be fully downloaded. But it doesn't matter any more, there is this site now. Thanks all the same !

[Victorine]

I can't wait too to have her speak in French !!!! It's been over 7 months since I didn't watch Celine on TV (it was a Canadian TV Show, called Star Système, that I had downloaded here). I can't wait !!!!

[VinnyT.]

thanks i needed it!

[dj_Tom]

I found only a TRAILER... what's the address exactly???

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Merci! I've found it!!! Thanks!

[beautyroses]

thanks so much you are such angels,

[SFchick]

I havent been very well and as soon as i get better ill get back to correcting the transcripts!

 

Sorry

[starshenry]

You girls have really worked hard on these transcipts!

 

Thank you so much!

[Victorine]

There's no hurry about the transcripts !! Don't worry !!

As for me, I'ma post the 2 last parts soon !

[Victorine]

Part 9 9:49

 

[Franco, on October 21, 2002: Celine, finally, you are here. We welcome you with all our heart.]

 

Elysa Gardner: I think Celine Dion doing Vegas makes perfect, perfect sense. I mean big voice, big presence, big star in this very big flashy setting.

 

Deon Ridley: Opening night was really interesting. We had a lot of celebrities in the audience watching the show.

 

[d*** Clark: I think it’s the curiosity element of seeing one of the ?finest? talents of the last decade combined with the show and nobody knows what it’s going to be! It’s going to be exciting!

 

Kathy Griffin: One of the greatest voices you’ll ever hear, you know, in your lifetime, I mean she’s so phenomenally (?) talented.

 

Lance Bass: I’ve been planning this for a year, so huh… yeah, I knew I was gonna be here. I said I got ?, just in case I’ve (?), whatever, you know, I’ve been there for 5 days.

The host: What an (?) for Celine.

Lance: I love Celine, she’s great.

 

Alan Thicke: In Canada we show up for (?) Celine, (?) like this, that’s all! And I know the whole country will be proud. This looks like a new chapter in Las Vegas’ history.]

 

Celine: I don’t like premieres at all! I don’t… I vote for “Premieres are not… should not exist!”

 

[Celine: I swear to you every time I do a show, there’s no sweat!]

 

René: Celine was very nervous. It was fantastic, actually everyone was very nervous.

 

[We see Celine backstage before a show]

 

Deon Ridley: There’s that adrenaline that builds up inside you. It hits you. This is opening night. We are getting ready to make history!

 

Celine: And then if they don’t like or if you do bad, it’s over, you know, they say “Ooooh my God, what a flop” Whatever, it’s… People read this, they don’t… It’s awful!

 

Elijah Brown: The vibe, the excitement, that’s has it hall, I mean, there was such an incredible anticipation. It was just magical because the show opens and then there’s this breaking sound of glass in the mirror and with that, it just exploded into our hearts, our minds. This is it. Here we go.

 

[On March 25, 2003:

Celine: Tonight is the big day and we’re so fortunate and thrilled that tonight is the night and I wanna thank you for being here tonight with all of us.]

 

Franco: We were so happy finally to present our baby to the audience. Something that I will never forget.

 

[A New Day Has Come]

 

[Celine on March 25, 2003: Right now, I have given the chance to work with Franco, the most incredible talented people in the world, and Las Vegas is giving me an opportunity and Caesars Palace wanted to give me the opportunity to have the cheery on the cake. Whatever I’ve done all those years, whatever…my fans put me where I am today, they’ve invited to their homes, I’ve sung for them, so many years, they’ve been supporting me (?)… And I feel today to say “Listen, I want to invite you to my home, and I want to give you the best show that I can give from me, from all of us, this is the best that we can do”.]

 

Celine: This is the difference between being in the recording studio in front of a microphone, and being live onstage in front of an audience. They talk to you, they feel you. They want you to perform but they want much more than that. If they just wanna a vocal performance, I can tell you now, they can… They better off with a record: first, it’ll sound much better I think, it’ll be exactly the way they wanna hear it, as the level as they wanna hear it! And they will not be disappointed. When you see a live artist, every night is different. We make jokes, we dance differently, we cry sometimes, sometimes we suffer. And when we suffer, we are naked. And they’ve never seen you before like that, and they respond.

 

[A New Day Has Come]

 

Elysa Gardner: As beautiful as your voice is, I don’t think she could touch that many people if the songs and the performances weren’t coming from an ?honest? place.

 

[A New Day Has Come]

 

Celine: They go crazy for you because they know you’re true.

 

[A person from the audience: She made me cry!]

 

Celine: People are very honest when they come to see their favorite artist.

 

[Another person: I’m speechless. It was just fabulous!]

 

Celine: (?) this is something very special and unique, about you, something that they didn’t expect, they’re willing to give another 10 years of their love to you.

 

[End of A New Day Has Come]

 

Carole King: The people who (?) Caesars Palace, that… that Celine would (?) people to their club, to their hotel and everything and she is and it’s great!

 

Mark Juliano: Well, you know, it’s really very very easy. There’re 42 hundred people that come through the buildings to see Celine. They have to eat somewhere, (?) go gamble somewhere, they have to use bars, they have to stay in hotel rooms. To say that it was a risk is probably an accurate statement because we had to build (?) support for the people that were coming and, thank God, they came.

 

[Celine, at the 100th-show ceremony: Everybody thought that we’re all crazy, all of us moving to Las Vegas and doing 200 shows a year.. for 3 years in a row!]

 

Jay: If you like to sing and you’re a good singer, people wanna hear you sing! I mean, there’s nothing worse for me of… the people have talent, and all they come out every (?) day and they do one concert. You can go and she sales (?) 4,000 seats a night every night and people get to see how good she really is!

 

[i Drove All Night]

 

Jay: You know, I think it’s wonderful, I don’t like lazy performers, I like people that work. I mean, you have a gift, use it! What good is it if you don’t use it ?!

 

[i Drove All Night]

 

Celine: It is crazy, it is very hard, but it’s true that the ride has been pretty ?smooth? even though… Yes, we’ve all worked really hard for what we have accomplished, but for me… For what you have, you need to work hard, for me it’s not like “Oh yeah, but I work so hard!” It’s normal! You have this, you need to work for it!

 

[i Drove All Night]

 

Coming up next, Celine continues to strike a cord with her fans.

Carole King: She’s real, she is genuine, she is who she is.

Celine: You cannot ask people to buy your tickets, buy your record, buy your new book… Yeah but… You know, leave me alone.

[SFchick]

Fourth part, guys !

 

Part 4 8:19

 

[Celine: You know, I was always thought I was like a positive person, I was thinking like all dreams can come true.

Barbra: Hu-huh.

Celine: And when I’ve met David I knew he knew you and I told him that you were my idol.]

 

David: I promised Celine two things: you’re gonna be known by your first name only, and Barbra Streisand is gonna know who you are.

 

René: The very first show in America Celine performed in was the Johnny Carson Show. Jay Leno was actually the guest host on that show.

 

[Jay Leno, September 21, 1990:

Jay: She’s making her first appearance here on American television tonight. Her name is Celine Dion and you’re gonna like more from her. Please welcome Celine Dion]

 

Jay: When I first got started show biz …Mike Douglas show. In all those days, you do a show and sometimes they save a tape, but sometimes they’d save a tape and sometimes they'd erase it cos some of these shows are pretty cheap and they would use the tapes over and over again!

[Where Does My Heart Beat Now live in Jay Leno Show]

 

Jay: I’ll always remember Mike Douglas said “There’s a new singer on called Barbra Streisand. And she came and did a song and she was pretty good. And then they had a tape of Robert Goulay and they had his tape of this new singer Barbra Streisand. They said “Well erase the new singer, let’s hang on to the Robert Goulay tape cuz, you know, we’ll use that later” and it was her first appearance on one of her very, and he never had it.

 

[Where Does My Heart Beat Now]

 

Jay: So when Celine was on that night  I said “you should save that”, I mean I save them anyway but I said “Put a note next to that one I bet she’ll become popular, she’s really good!”

 

René: When Celine started recording in English, a lot of people they were saying “Yes, Celine Dion, what does she sing ?” You know, she was just starting, she had a few hits but people did not associate her name with the songs. And then came Beauty And The Beast.

 

Tommy Mottola: Beauty And The Beast.

 

Randy Jackson: Beauty And The Beast.

 

Elysa Gardner: Beauty And The Beast was not the first English-language song that Celine recorded obviously, but I think it really resonated with the public because it’s a beautiful song, it was a Disney movie, hit movie, she did it with an established RNB star Peabo Bryson.

 

Randy Jackson: And the singer Peabo, he was the RNB crooner at that time. I think it was the perfect combination that two forces matching. I mean I can hear it in my head now, it just sounds so amazing.

 

[beauty And The Beast]

 

Peabo Bryson: The first time I ever laid eyes on Celine Dion was to record Beauty And The Beast. We didn’t record it like you would normally do, one person records  the appostion the other person sings to it. You sing it together but your isolated. They didn’t want that for some reason. They put  the room divder between us so that my vocal would not link into hers and hers would not link into mine. Well we did see each other and we were close. I was standing and watching her sing, and I was going … I was going towards the glass, I found myself going towards the glass just listening because she’s hypnotic like that, she draws you in. And then I gave her some of me.

 

[beauty And The Beast]

 

Celine: Singing with Peabo Bryson which was an established performer, artist, was a tremendous turning point in my career. I remember taking the cab in New York and having Beauty And The Beast play and the chauffeur without knowing that it was me singing and he sang the whole song from beginning to end ! Made me feel pretty good!

 

[beauty And The Beast]

 

Elysa Gardner: They both had such particular voices and technically so crystal-clear, I remember hearing the voice and thinking “God, who is that woman ?”

 

Peabo: You can’t sing with Celine and not fall a little bit in love with her. You can’t.

 

[beauty And The Beast]

 

Peabo: Her confidence level was so high at that point so that there wasn’t anything that she couldn’t (?) And I’m not sure she could do that!(i dont get what he says either, sorry)

 

Tommy: We set on a very strategic tactical plan with Celine to figure out the correct building blocks to build a huge career. And one of the first opportunities that came along was Beauty And The Beast. And then I put a classic record in the billion-dollar-worldwide grossing film with Disney, and there you have the first launching pad

 

David Foster: I was a very piviotal song. I believe it was her first Number 1 Billboard hit, followed by The Power of Love which was her first Number 1 as a solo artist, not a duet.

 

[The Power of Love/Wedding in 1994]

 

David: Being Canadian myself, we have Neil Young, we have Jonnie Mitchel, we have Wayne Gretzke but Celine is Canada’s national treasure, there’s no doubt about it.

 

René: There was a lot of public interest in our wedding. I was very very surprised. Well, I was surprised, yes and no, cuz she’s worth like the… you know, the people in Quebec they saw her grow. It’s like their child, their daughter is getting married.

 

Celine: I kept my long hair for them and fixing me teeth for them, and keeping my love story secret for them … now I’m gonna be at the happiest of my life and I’m gonna keep it away from them ? No.

 

[The Power of Love]

 

Celine: I wanted a big fairy tale wedding. This is the man of my life and this is what I want.

 

Michel: The wedding was huge, fabulous, beautiful! In the biggest church in Montreal. All the TV sent their cameramen.

 

David: It was unbelievable, it was like Lady Di.

 

[The Power of Love]

 

When we return:

[My Heart Will Go On clip]

Tommy: As she started singing, everyone started feeling goose bumps. By the time she was finished, everyone knew we had created a classic.

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[Victorine]

Thank you, girl! Here's now the very last part:

Part 10 10:47

 

Celine: My singing career was one thing, and the show with Franco is another one. Recording my records in the past was one thing, and working with Anna Geddes was another one.

 

[Anne: So we put the baby on the front first, and then you lean forward. But don’t forget the baby at the back.]

 

[brahms’ Lullaby]

 

[Anne: Gorgeous]

 

Celine: To combine the magic of the music and the magic of the image, the miracle of life itself, it’s right there in front of your eyes, just… capture it.

 

[Anne: Celine doesn’t wanna give this one back!]

 

Celine: I think that it was (an) amazing privilege to be photographed with those amazing newborns.

 

[Anne: That’s great. And then you have got your arm on the one that’s here, then we have one that’s here, and then we have one here.]

 

Celine: And I could hold it so close to me. I could hear them, their heartbeats, their organs, I could feel, the smell…it was amazing!

 

[Anne: Hey Celine, just round your head, round the top of the pillow, just gently (?)]

 

Elysa Gardner: The way that people responded to Celine Dion’s latest project with the babies, the Miracle Project, was similar to the way they(‘d) responded to other projects. Celine Dion’s fans loved it, it endured her even more to them, and then there were people who just kind of rolled their eyes, who laughed and thought “Oh this is just too corny for words”, but it doesn’t seem to bother her, that people think that. I mean, or if it does, she doesn’t make a big deal about it and I think that’s kind of refreshing, frankly.

 

Ana Gasteyer: She’s very sincere, probably as really nice to people at restaurants and who want her autograph.

 

[sesame Streets Muppets: I just went outdoor and said: “ Welcome to Sesame Streets Celine. And she was really nice!]

 

Celine: You cannot ask people to buy your tickets, buy your record, buy your new book… Yeah but, you know… leave me alone.

 

[?: I wanna meet her, but… but I’m too shy]

[Celine sings Happy To Meet You]

 

David Foster: Everybody slags Celine for making soft records or corny records or mushy records. But people forget that “pop music” stands for “popular”. And it’s what popular, so we don’t care what the critics say. The critics are always gonna slag the things that sell most, always!

 

Celine: Especially if your life is pretty amazing and your career’s pretty awesome… There must be something wrong! We’ll keep in touch, we’ll look, we’ll… We’ll try to find out something behind the scenes!

 

Elysa Gardner: Where other divas, things like their hair and your make-up and their wardrobe put them more on a (?) and make them seem more reachable, Celine Dion’s many different faces or faux-pas as for some people have really made her more accessible!

 

Ana Gasteyer: She went through some really hard fashion times. She really knows how to work a tuxedo pant, and (?) incident, that was pretty rough, it probably took some time to get over and I think she was the one that wore that backwards jacket, right ?

 

Carole King: She’s real, she is genuine, she is who she is. You know, people talk about (Carole hits her wrist against her chest, just like Celine does) this, you know! But Celine feels things that way, and that’s how she was brought up, she was brought up as a French Canadian, you know, she’s very in touch with French culture and that’s more dramatic, you know. That’s who she is and people know that, they know her sincerity.

 

Ana Gasteyer: Sometimes she shares a little bit, as they say too much, like, I mean, it comes again from such an honest (?) I mean, she just loves being a mother and she loves being a wife and she loves truly being a performer, she comes from such a great tradition that way. But she does tend to, yes sure, reveal a bit, she revealed a bit about René-Charles.

 

[Celine, in 2002: When you open the diaper, this is the truth in there]

 

[Ana Gasteyer acting: You have to open the diaper and look at the (?) because that is where the truth is, you know what I sayin’, sister ? You know, you can see what he ate, and if (?) good, I do I with the baby too! Where Does My Heart Beat Now ??!!!!]

 

Randy Jackson: I think that she’s just genuinely who she is. I think that, you know, no matter what the Saturday Night Live or whoever makes jokes about whatever, you know, the chest thumping or… You know, about her behavior, her style or her lack of her, sometimes, grace (?) English language. You know, a lot of people saying she’s corny, a lot of people that say all these things that… You cannot take away that she’s ?arguably? one of the world’s greatest singers and I think she’s inspired a lot, lot of talented people.

 

[American Idol, a girl singing The Power Of Love]

 

René Angélil: Sometimes I watch American Idol and I see the artists that try to (?) other artists. Celine did that when she started.

 

[American Idol, a girl singing The Power Of Love]

 

Rné Angélil: But eventually find a style of your own, that’s the most important thing, this is this.

 

[American Idol, a girl singing The Power Of Love]

 

Rnady Jackson: I don’t know of anybody’s really (?) Celine thing. You know, we usually tell people it’s probably not the wisest choice because she’s such a (?) great singer. You know, you would just, you know, pretty much (?) in comparison on someone that great.

 

[American Idol, a girl singing The Power Of Love]

 

Peabo Bryson: There’s only one Celine and anything she does, we’ll know it’s Celine, anything, anybody tries to sound like Celine, you know it’s someone trying to sound like Celine.

 

Jay Leno: You know, she doesn’t really have many contemporaries, I mean, there’re people ?rather? big in America, there’re people ?rather? popular in Canada, but she’s really popular worldwide. I think when you got a show in Las Vegas, there’s a lot of people there that don’t speak English as well, Chinese, Japanese, I mean they come from all over

 

[Celine, after singing My Heart Will Go On: I love you too girlfriend!]

 

Carole King: She ?knows? to Vegas because that’s where her work was, and her work was to be in one place, so she wouldn’t have to always be traveling around with her little boy and her work was also to bring the show to as many people as possible.

 

[What A Wonderful World]

 

Elysa Gardner: Celine Dion can keep doing what she’s doing as long as she wants to. I could see her doing the show in Vegas 20, 30 years from now.

 

[What A Wonderful World]

 

Franco Dragone: She’s a really “grande dame” as I say, and that is very rare to have in history, you know, to have… You can’t have people like Celine every year, you know, it’s something rare. So, I think, one day, she will go back to the (?) because it’s where she comes from.

 

[What A Wonderful World]

 

David Foster: Celine is a true champion. And I think like all really really great champions, they walk! And it wouldn’t surprise me at all for Celine to one day, in the very near future, just go “I’m done!”

 

[What A Wonderful World]

 

Celine: For many years, my vocals cords were the leader of my life, they would decide everything for me. Maybe I don’t sing as technically good today, but I surely sing much better.

 

[What A Wonderful World]

 

René: She wasn’t a typical 12-year-old, she didn’t smile, she was very shy. But when she started singing, it was amazing. Her face changed, her soul changed and it came out.

 

[What A Wonderful World]

 

Celine: I’m not 17 years old, I’m 37 years old. My songs today, and my life and my career today makes much more sense to me now. It’s today that I live. It’s today that I know much more. I think it’s wonderful to grow older. I feel much happier today than when I was 22 or 25. I’m in control of my life, I’m in control of my happiness and this is what needs to come through, through my songs.

 

[We see Celine going backstage after the show, joking, applauding her dancers

 

Celine, singing wih joy: I could do it on and on!!

Celine: Now, I’m up to it, this is pretty wild. You’re so scared when you start, you’re so cold, you’re not sure, you go there and then… make show, (?), you wish you could start right there! Right now, it’s over. I’m ready for tomorrow, but it’s a day off, I’m sorry!!]

 

Well, I hope you guys, that don’t speak English, can understand much better what it is all about !!!! It’s truly a good thing to be able to help other fans, in a way that, I can guess, is very useful.

If you ever want other transcripts in English, just call on me! I’ve already started to translate the Canadian show, taped in October, 1997, with Julie Snyder. She tells a lot of anecdotes, and I think it’s one of the best funny interview she’s ever made (that’s what you can expect when it’s with Julie Snyder, they’re great friends).

[SFchick]

Part 5 9:05

 

[My Heart Will Go On]

 

Deon Ridley: When Celine sings My Heart Will Go On, oh man!

 

[We see Celine from the backstage]

 

Deon Ridley: First of all, I’m sitting backstage and I’m watching her sing her song every night. The audience is just going crazy because they know, the know the melody of the song. There’s tears, there’re people crying. There’re people living the deal like “OHH”. You know, just overwhelmed because that song is just one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

 

[Celine backstage]

 

David Foster: Every singer hopes and prays that they will have a theatrical song. And when you really think about it, not that many people do.

 

Celine: I don’t write my songs, I am at the mercy of songs, Im in awe, I’m waiting for songs.

 

Mark Juliano: Celine and René used to like to stay in this very suite and there were some people that wanted to have Celine listen to a song that they had an idea for.

 

Celine: The songs were coming. I was like “Yes!” like fresh fruits “Yes!”. I was buying life like good healthy stuff.

 

Mark Juliano: It was right here that Celine for the first time heard the song My Heart Will Go On played.

 

James Horner: There was no song when I was writing the score cuz James Cameron, the director, told me that he didn’t want, definitely, didn’t want a song in his movie.

 

René: People were saying, you know, it’s over budget that Titanic’s gonna sink. Even though there was a bad line, James Horner told us that he was convinced it would be a big hit. And I had a lot of confidence in James Horner.

 

James Horner: In writing, I got to the end of the film and I was afraid just another orchestral cue would be boring. I mean, it’d had whatever was an hour of orchestral music that’s big sinking etc… So I made all the little threads that I had been using throughout the film come together as one long thread for a song. But … like,the opening the penny wistle thing....(starts playing)

 

Celine: James started to play the song on the piano and he’s a wonderful writer, but if I may say that he’s probably not the best singer out there.

 

René: And Celine was not impressed. Not impressed with his singing.

 

Celine: And I kept saying to René, in the back, I was like “No ! Not gonna sing that song, I don’t like that song!”

 

René: And … so I told James “Look, you’d better stop because you’re not helping here. What we should do is if you could do a track to the song, Celine will do a demo”. So this is what happened. We went in a studio.

 

Tommy Mottola: And as she started singing, everyone started feeling goose bumps.

 

James Horner: Everybody was sort of in tears when she was singing. It’s just so beautiful.

 

Tommy: By the time she was finished, everyone knew we had created a classic.

 

[My Heart Will Go On]

 

James: And I waited to the right moment to spring it on my director and one day, he was in a particularly good mood and I asked him to listen to something and he said “Is that Celine Dion singing ?” I said “Yeah”. And then the rest is sort of history.

 

[My Heart Will Go On]

 

Celine: So I went there and I sang the song. They kept the demo and the actual real record actual, the one you hear is the demo. I never re-sang for a record that song. I’ve sung the song many many many times, I’m still singing it, so… I’m glad I did it! I was wrong! I didn’t wanna do it. I’m glad that they didn’t listen to me!

 

Sir George Martin: If you record a great song that is a very famous song, and in fact you make it your own, obviously it’s a great advantage to you. You know, because you sell lots of records you become a more famous for it But it can be a burden. … But it’s a bad burden to have, really.

 

David Foster: And the blessing is obvious, I mean My Heart Will Go On catapulted her to, you know, the song fed the movie, the movie fed the song, it was like the most syllogistic coming together of a movie and song that I can remember. But then that was a curse too cos Saturday Night Live that’s just making fun of you and people love to hate the song, they hate or love the song.

 

[Extract from Saturday Night Live:

Ana Gasteyer acting: Oh thank you so much. You are a beautiful audience. And I love the way my voice bounds of your face and come back to my ear.]

 

Ana: I first did the character on Saturday Night Live right after Titanic hit the world in a massive explosion. She had just sort of immersed culture enough that they were just ready to laugh at her and the entire audience went crazy.

 

[saturday Night Live:

Ana acting: Now, my first guest is very special to me. He is the love of my life. I met him when I was 12 year old and he agreed to be my manager. He take me to the top of the chart and he paid for my braces. Please welcome my father, I mean, my husband René!”]

 

René: When we saw that imitation that they did on the Saturday Night Live, personally I felt like she’s a big star now. Celine is. I was very very happy about that, very honored actually that they would do that.

 

[saturday Night Live:

Ana acting: “Oh, I’m sorry I’m trying not to be so talented but I can’t help it! If I wasn’t such a nice person, I’d think I was a show off. My next guess was supposed to be Barbra Streisand but unfortunately she has “the flu” again! So I am definitely the best singer in the world!]

 

Tommy: When you have achieved that, you have finally made it way beyond on the top, not to the top, but way beyond the top. I thought it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen and Celine, without question, is the greatest singer in the world.

 

Coming up, Celine divas it up with a legend.

Randy: Celine definitely did her thing and held her on. I mean she was amazing that night.

She has to be an emotional rock for her soul mate.

Celine: I never thought cancer ?(avant in French = before)?. Never. I really wanted to show him my support, I wanted him to know that I was in charge.

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[SFchick]

Part 6 7:42

 

[Celine from Au Coeur Du Stade:

Celine : Bonsoir tout le monde ! Je vous aime beaucoup ! Au revoir ! Merci !]

 

Michel : With Celine, My Heart Will Go On, that changed a lot !

 

René: She became much more popular and we toured around the world that particular year, played in stadiums.

 

[Celine: L’an dernier, j’ai eu l’honneur de travailler avec 2 de mes idoles: Carole King et Sir George Martin. Merci d’être là tout le monde ce soir]

 

Carole King : The song The Reason was not written for Celine. It was written for Areosmith. Then somehow it got re-rallyed and sent to Celine and she loved it.

 

[The Reason]

 

Sir George Martin: She’s very easy to work with. She’s…she’s a consumate performer. You ask her to do something she does it.

 

Celine: George Martin, he’s like a prince. He doesn’t look like a rock n’roll producer who’s been working with The Beatles, he looks like a sir who lives in a castle.

 

Sir George Martin: In this case, working on that particular song, I was working with 2 divas because Carole King you know of course i worshipped her from the moment she started making records which is way back in the dark ages like me. This vibrant American came busterling into the studio. And the sessions very very easy indeed. It was a good record !

 

[The Reason]

 

Carole: Celine is a professional. And so whoever she works with, she’s gonna be great. We did this first VH1 Divas show.

 

Randy: Shania was on there, Mariah was on, Gloria Estefan was on.

 

Carole: And I was on the show. As well I was a surprise Diva and only because Celine had asked me to join her for the show, and then they asked me to be one of the Divas.

 

Randy: And Aretha was definitely serving them up that night.

 

[VH1 Divas: Natural Woman]

 

Carole: We did Natural Woman at the end of the show and that’s Aretha’s song and Aretha, rightly, you know, is the star of that song. But here we are on the stage full of divas and Aretha’s, you know, as she will tend to do, God bless her, sort of taking over! And the part where Celine was supposed to sing, here’s Aretha still singing.

 

[Natural Woman]

 

Randy: Celine definitely did her thing and held her own, I mean, she was amazing that night. I mean, you talk about the gospel church power of Aretha Franklin, I mean, one of the most legendary voices of all time. Celine definitely did her thing. She worked it out.

 

Carole: And I love Celine’s attitude because she’s got spunk she’s got fight and she’s just got up there and when Aretha sang when Celine was supposed to be Celine just got right up under her and answered her!

 

[Natural Woman]

 

Celine: And I just respected her so much for the classy way that she handled that situation.

 

Elysa Gardner: Her lack of affectation I think cuts through everything she does and that might be why people shared in her struggle when her husband was sick. People felt that they could relate to her maybe in a way that they couldn’t had Diana Ross been going through, something like that.

 

[From Au Coeur Du Stade:

Celine : Avant de continuer le spectacle, j’aimerai vous dire quelque chose de très important…]

 

René : Well in 1999, you know, I was diagnosed with cancer.

 

[Celine: J’aimerai vous dire que René va bien]

 

Celine : I’ll never forget that it was in Augusta. We were there in this very small hotel room with each other, as lovers and as golfers. He was looking forward for this moment so much. You know, us playing in Augusta, man! Forget it, nobody else does for him, he was like we were the only ones in the world, he was like such a big fan.

And the next morning in the plane, he noticed a huge bump in his neck. And me, with my tonsils and my vocal cords and my neck, it’s like…I’m used to manipulate and touch and feel and it’s sorrow, it’s not sorrow it’s big and…it’s a cold, it’s an infection, there’s a nut stuck there, I’m kinda used to it, and I said “When you swallow, there’s a hurt”. And he said no. “Are you sure” and I kinda pressed on it. I said “Are you sure it doesn’t hurt ?” and he said no. Well what’s it doing about it. You know, we’ll have it checked. But I was a little nervous starting at that moment. I never thought cancer. Never! Never, never.

We were there in Dallas. I was on tour. My family flew, my parents, René’s children, he had all the support he needed. And we took it from there.

 

Michel: René's Assistant he announced that René was sick. But René, he told Dave to tell us “Life has to continue and we have to go on with the show. That was a great spirit and Celine was there too and of course she was crying and she’s “OK, guys, we have the show to do now, Let’s go!” and we did a great show.

 

[The Power of Love from Au Coeur Du Stade]

 

Tommy: During the tour when René was going through his treatments, they’d even communicate while she was on stage like her touching her nose which is her way of saying “I love you” to René who was watching it at home.

And then she pulled back and gave him the time that he needed.

 

[The Power of Love from Au Coeur Du Stade]

 

Celine: I really wanted to show him my support, I wanted him to know that I was in charge and now “You took care of me so much for so many years. Can I do something for you ? Let me do something for you”.

 

[The Power of Love from Au Coeur Du Stade]

 

Coming up:

Celine: Being afraid of dying and giving life on the other side, it’s quite a world. It makes you realize what’s important and what’s fun and singing is fun and being with the family is important.

 

 

Part 7 7:40

 

Tommy: The great thing about Celine is this amazing partnership with René. Not only is it her husband and her love but a man who understands all of the dynamics of what it takes to become a star and maintain it.

 

Celine: You know, I always felt René so strong. He knows it all. René ? Phhoo!! He’s OK! You know, he’s the manager! I felt something so weak in him, he was lost. And he had me, in a way, and cancer. And I said “It was given to you because you need to go through it. You still have a decision, you still have a choice. So what do you mean “I still have a choice” ? You still have a choice! You go through it strong, like “you want to cure yourself and you gonna get out perfectly”, or you say every day “Why me, I don’t understand, I’ve been generous all my life” Let’s go with it. We went… And it had given for the first time control of my life as well.

 

[Celine: What I want is to do a show before I take a break. I don’t know how long I’m gonna take a break, but I need a balance in my life]

 

Michel: That break came right on time because she’s on tour for…wow…10 years I think. On tour is very, very demanding, it’s tough!

 

Elysa Gardner: Celine Dion might have made some people chuckle with the way she kinda went out at the peak of her career, to kinda bow out for a while, and as is usual, amid all the spectacle ,big performance kind of ending one millennium ushering in another, very Celine Dion like.

 

René: The decision to stop at the end of 99 was to start a family.

 

Michel: A lot of time, René was not with us. So René was in Montreal or somewhere else doing business, and she was like in Europe doing shows and day after day and…You know, it’s not very easy. And to do a family, you know, when the husband is very far or (laughs) it’s very difficult!

 

[Celine in 97: We’re trying. We’re trying for a long time now]

 

René: And the doctors didn’t have any particular answers, you know, they were saying there’s stress, there… travelling… pressure.

 

[Celine in 97: Doesn’t seem to want to happen, but you know, I say to myself “Celine, you’re so lucky. There’s so many things happening to you now. You can’t have it all! Don’t push your luck, honey! Don’t, don’t… Don’t say… You know, don’t start that! If it happens, it happens.]

 

Celine: This is what I wanted the most. A marriage, a wonderful husband, a wonderful father and a family. It took us like 6 years before having some help and we got very lucky it worked for us.

 

René: When Celine was pregnant, you know, that was the best time. The best time! She loved being pregnant and she actually missed being pregnant! Our child was due for February 14, Valentine’s Day. And about 3 weeks before that, she said “I feel something’s going on”. It wasn’t like i love lucy by the way, it was… she didn’t panic, or…shouted or anything. So we went to the hospital and sure enough, the baby… you know, the baby was born that day!

 

We are pleased to announce that Celine Dion and René Angélil are thrilled with the birth of their son René-Charles at 1 a.m. on Thursday, January 25th, 2001 at Palm’s West Hospital. Celine and René-Charles who weighted 6 pounds 8 ounces, are doing marvellously well and are in perfect health.

 

Celine: He was not even in my arms yet and I was totally different.

 

[if I Could, live at Caesars]

 

René: She was waiting so long for this to happen, it was the best day of our life.

 

[if I Could, live at Caesars]

 

[Celine, at a press conference on March 20, 2002: Being afraid of dying and giving life on the other side is quite a world. It makes you realize what’s important and what’s fun and singing is fun and being with the family is important.]

 

[if I Could, live at Caesars]

 

Celine: Without regretting anything, if I would have to start my life all over again, I’m not sure if I would sing again, I’m not sure if I would start my whole career again. My priorities changed, not tremendously, totally! He’s teaching me life. No pressure at all, totally the opposite of the show business life.

 

[if I Could, live at Caesars]

 

David: If you  would ask me “Who do you think on this planet is the best choice to be a mother”,I would probably say Celine, would’ve said that 15 years ago.

 

[if I Could, live at Caesars]

 

Michel: My position, I’m number 5 of the family, she’s number 14! She was our baby. Now she’s got her own baby!

 

[if I Could, live at Caesars]

 

Coming up, a trip to the circus changes Celine’s career path:

René: We brought our families here to Las Vegas to go and see a show of Cirque Du Soleil.

Celine: When I saw that show, something… “Tooph!” There’s something else out there.

René: Celine at the end said “When I come back, I’d like to be part of a show like that”.

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[SFchick]

Ill do the other three tomorrow!

[Koolan]

Great job, girls

[dj_Tom]

good work!!!

 

THANK YOU SO VEEEEERY MUCH!!!!