Word: dion
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...part of a campaign directed squarely at voters who want something they can bank from their candidates. Her campaign long ago junked the soaring Celine Dion campaign jingle for the theme from "Rocky" and Dolly Parton's "9 to 5," a fierce woman's anthem for the forgotten worker...
...report posted on The Citizen’s Web site, Power said she hopes that Ignatieff becomes the leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, but that she did not mention either the current leader of the party, Stéphane Dion, or Harper by name...
...Bette's show follows the five-year run of Celine Dion's A New Day. That elephantine extravaganza, staged by ex-Cirque du Soleil director Franco Dragone, submerged the singer in gigantic sets and CGI effusions: rolling clouds, meteor showers, shooting stars. Midler jokes that she has come to "the only city that could teach Kraft about cheese" because of "the sh-tload of money they're payin' me." There's plenty of money lavished on the production too: $10 million (as she mentions three or four times during the evening), and it boasts some luscious videographic effects...
...chantootsie often declares that she's exhausted, yet in her sharp 90-min. act, she seems ageless and indefatigable--strutting, singing, hopping around in a fish tail, cavorting under a 3,200-lb. (1,450 kg) headdress of pink feathers. Showgirl, a slick $10 million production, replaces Céline Dion's elephantine extravaganza with the unique Midler mix: sass, heart and a show-biz salesmanship that's been irresistible since her early days as an icon for gay men only. "Thirty years ago, my audiences were on drugs," she says. "Now they're on medication." Her fans have aged...
...political stability. But as Northern Ireland's politics change for the better, Belfast is going through an image crisis. No longer defined by bomb blasts and sectarian strife, the city is reaching for new, peaceful symbols. And it's settled on a rather unlikely choice. Two clues: Celine Dion and an iceberg...