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Celine Dion goes to war with her own face
WE MISSED THIS EARLIER but think it cannot go unreported that Celine Dion, The INQUIRER's Canadian warbler of choice, has closed down a web site that only published pictures of her face.
The web site, "Ridiculous Pictures of Celine Dion", which we wish we had stumbled upon earlier, posted up a message seven days ago saying that following some contact from the chanteuse, it was no longer able to do business. Its business, it seems, was displaying less-than-flattering images of Celine.
"hey y'all. céline dion found our blog, and she didn't like it. we just got a letter from céline's lawyers that the blog has to be shut down," reads the post from the web site's creator and warbler face collector.
"Though this blog is well within the realm of 'fair use', i don't have the money or time to get a lawyer to respond. the dream is over. thanks for following and being a céline superfan i'll always remember u. i'll never let go."
We'll always remember you too. Whoever you ares for Celine she's been a favourite at the INQUIRER since she decided to let Sony put DRM on her CDs that had installed a hidden rootkit on user PCs. This was designed to discourage copying, but quite possibly had the averse affect and lead to some not buying.
This meant that her best of Album, The Essential Dion, and another one, called On ne Change Pas, were unable to meet our ears. Something that we have actually never recovered from. µ
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Doesn't she realize the more you draw attention to something- the more the vultures will come out to look.... bad, bad move- laugh at it instead of creating a media circus to show as much of the controversy as possible- it is accomplishing just the opposite of what she wanted..
What's really sad is the fact that Celine probably knows nothing of this. I fully believe the lawyer did this without her permission. Celine is not the type that would be bothered by that blog. She has a wonderful sense of humor and has no problem laughing at herself. Seeing as she is busy with her show in Las Vegas and with taking care of three boys, the lawyer probably never asked for her opinion on this matter :(
You can still see most of them in the google images section .
Here in Québec, Canada , when we go shopping at walmart and such, the music of Céline Dion is everywhere in every stores...It can become painful after a while.
The only good thing about it is that I get out of the store faster, so Céline make me save some money.
Salut de Québec !
If you still want to flip the pearl at those legal eagles of Celine's, the pages are still cached by Google (at the moment):
Search for:
http://ridiculouspicturesofcelinedion.tumblr.com/page/2
...then click on the link's 'cached' link!
To see more pages, just re-search changing the number on the end of the link to 3, for example:
http://ridiculouspicturesofcelinedion.tumblr.com/page/3
Loads of love,
Dave xxx