Celine Dion has returned to Las Vegas to begin a three-year residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The brand-new show, centered on classic Hollywood movies and stunning visuals, premiered March 15 featuring 31 musicians and a full orchestra and

the most by a woman in any genre of music and the best-selling country album of all time. Twain is also a successful songwriter with 27 BMI Songwriter awards. She is the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind fellow Canadian Celine Dion.

I think Celine [Dion] and I are the only two that actually live in Vegas. Everybody else commutes to their show, but for mothers it's a really great stay-at-home job." The response they've been getting from audiences at the Flamingo was a factor in the

overdosing on pot brownies at fellow ex-Idol judge Paula Abdul's house -- in chapters titled after chart-toppers she has penned, including Kelly's Clarkson's Walk Away, Carrie Underwood's Mama's Song, Celine Dion's Taking Chances and Pink's Sober.

If Santa Cruz had instead produced another kind of "Idol" finalist, a leather-lunged Celine Dion clone, or a gee-willikers country crooner, that person would have been celebrated with heartfelt enthusiasm, sure. But that singer would have eventually