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Celine Dion: HP Pavilion, San Jose

Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 February 2009

CELINE DION makes faces when she sings. She crinkles up her nose. She arches her eyebrows. She winks and darts quick little smiles after she ends a line. Her face is such a studied mask of projected emotion, she sometimes inadvertently looks like someone experiencing intense pain - all relayed in pinpoint detail, splashed 20 feet tall on the giant video screen above the stage.

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