1: Would that "the noxious Velveeta cloud smothering the Canadian chanteuse" Celine Dion were a literal and not figurative one.

2: Congrats to Bored@home and Marie on the Comment of the Week wins!

couple o' things...i've found out that sing along with celine is indeed coming to a theater near me and if you'll cover the $12.50 (plus a little extra for nachos, good 'n' plentys and a coke) i would be delighted to go watch it for you, liz kelly, and report back. just lemme know. (hey, i've got nothing better to do this tuesday night.)

uh, clicked submit before i finished my comment. bored's comment was brilliant. kudos and congrats. and marie, you're not a dork. now you would be if your last name was osmond...

whew ... the only place the Écouter ala Celine is being served in tennessee is in nashville....in misshippy, it's only in pearl and gulfport, and in arkansas, it's only in little rock.

I think the photo that accompanies the bit about Celine documents her career at it's cheesetastic of cheesiest quite well.

$12.50 seems kinda high. I'll do $2.50.

$12.50? Nah, I think I'll just wait until it hits the Cinema/Drafthouse for the second run; it seems la Dion would go much better with alcohol. :)

Headline: "McNamee injected Clemens in the buttocks four to six times"

If that isn't "b) a splashy tabloid cover story", then I don't know what is.

We're talking about grown men injecting things in buttocks, people! For pay! Hello?

Maybe when it comes to the $1.00 cinema and even then I'll have to be extremely drunk and be allowed to throw things at the screen.

RP, what's your point?

Query: Are you secretly (or not secretly) a fan of Britney Spears's new album, singles and/or videos? If so, e-mail me at liz.kelly@washingtonpost.com and explain why.

Don't forget to submit with photos of yourself with your home address and phone number so that you may be mocked at a later time.

You forgot to mention that these "select multiplexes" are "Adult" and they will have Dion look-a-likes offering to go down on you like the Titanic.

Celine Dion has a beautiful voice, but her head is far too large for her body and looks like a precariously perched lollipop.

this is apropos of absolutely nothing but i just fixed my stove top by myself (i had to replace two heating elements) and i feel like i can take on the world. RRRROOOOAAARRR! (cough* cough*)

Isn't Celine Dion the French phrase for, "Does this scrawny rack, all draped in chiffon and sequins, make my head look fat?"

WOOHOO!!

And I didn't even mention the ony-pays in my comment & still won!

Best part was, I wasn't even trying to funny. It makes me sad & angry that no one bought his Oscar. :-( If I had a few extra million lying around I would've bought your Oscar Mr. Welles & then donated it right back to the Academy.

As for Celine, she's right up there on my "I don't like his/her music, but I realize he/she has amazing vocal abilities." She has an amazing range & I can appreciate her vocal capabilities but I really don't dig her much.

She's very Streisand-esque in my book. Yet in the interviews with her that I've seen she seems like a very nice, funny person. Unlike Babs. Babs comes off as a little too full of herself. If I had a choice, I'd rather hang with Celine than with Streisand.

Celine would have an amazing range, but so few of us own a trebuchet, catapult or cannon from which to launch her.

The image that Zamora has called up, on the other hand, is profoundly disturbing. So much so, in fact, that Zamora can have my turn.

big props to methinks.

Again, byoolin makes me laugh. The mental picture of CD being flung by catapult off the deck of the sinking Titanic made my day!

Actually, wasn't there a time before that horrid song & craptacular movie when Celine did not resemble a lollipop (or blow pop)? Back when she was a pretty girl with an amazing voice...

Speaking of (choose one) titanic/blow pops, amateur sex-tape actress Pamela Anderson filed for divorce from amateur sex-tape actor Rick Salomon on Friday.

They had been married, appropriately enough, for 69 days.

Pam Anderson/Rick Solomon divorcing

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20166765,00.html

Who else is surprised that these kids couldn't make it work?

69 days...tee hee. good pickup, byoolin.

Actually, I saw a pre-screening of the movie already. It's just a re-release of Old Yeller.

the snarkiness of this thread is the perfect antitode for monday!

I'm intrigued by this phenomenon of live simulcast events in movie theaters - the metropolitan opera has been doing it for a year or so now, and my aunt says it's great. I'm skeptical (and I'm an opera fan). I guess, if you were really into Celine Dion fan - and even if none of us are, *someone* must be, not all those ticket-buyers can be celebritological ironists - this might be pretty cool.

Gosh, now I kind of almost want to go to see what the fuss is about. Kind of. Almost. Not. Also, I want to know who seriously likes Celine Dion. Who are these people? Anyone? Anyone?

In case you couldn't guess, my "really into Celine Dion fan" means "really into Celine Dion," not "really into Celine Dion fans" - although I'd be interested in learning about *that* particular issue, too.

while i appreciate a good dose of snark 'n' sarc(asm), watch out for treading too closely to a classic like 'old yeller'. i mean, i get ya, but just watch it.

Liz have you ever been to Branson?

Just wondering! You know everyone can't live on DC.

byoolin, how am I going to explain the water damage to my laptop?

To anonymous at 4:05, I don't think we need to have actually visited Branson to have a general idea of how we feel about it. For goodness sake doesn't Yakov Smirnoff perform there?

What? No Celine Dion love for Alaska or Hawaii?

All the MoCoSnarkys have to go to Tysons to see it. Be damned if we're treking all the way to Abingdon, even if we knew where that was.

I live in Missouri and have been to Branson, so if you have any preconceived notions about what Branson is really like...you're right, it is just that bad.

My (age) 70+ inlaws love Branson. All the retirees pull up in their RVs to see the Dolly Parton breakfast show.