Celine Dion's comeback album, "Taking Chances," hits stores next week. But you don't need to wait any longer to hear one of her best songs. Newsweek has the world debut of "My Love," track No. 4, written by Linda Perry. Listen to it here:

What do you think?!

I've heard the whole album already and it's good. Celine sounds a little different--more rock, more blues, more restrained--but she benefits from the change. My favorite song is "That's Just the Woman in Me," which is like Janis Joplin meets Kelly Clarkson.

Celine's got a big year ahead of her. She closes her Las Vegas show in December. Then she goes on an international tour in February. Click here to read 7 Things You Don't Know About Celine Dion.

Celine Dion has been in Vegas for a long time--five years--but she's finally ready to take her show on the road. She's beginning a world tour in February and she has a new album out, "Taking Chances." Her are 7 things you don't know about Celine Dion. 

(1) She's very superstitious. "I knock on wood a lot," Celine says. "I have a little bell backstage. It's like a Christmas ding ding ding ding. I stand in the same place in the elevator. I touch people's thumbs for energy."

(2) Her stage in Vegas slopes down 6 degrees, so her audience can see her better, but it's hard for Celine to sing and dance (in heels) on it. "Nobody knew it was going to be that hard," she says. "It's very difficult for the spine. Your hips change, the neck shifts forward. It put pressure on the vocal chords. I lost my voice. I had to go to Los Angeles [to a doctor]. They thought it was paralysis of the vocal chords. But it was just tension. I don't want that to become so dramatic. It was worth it, because everybody could see very well."

(3) Her halls backstage at Caesars Palace are painted orange. "When we first moved there, it was a very hospital color. My team helped me pick the color. Some were superstitious about the green. Some didn't want to go to blue because of emotional stuff. I didn't want to go too much yellow. The orange color, nobody told me, 'No orange.'"

(4) After being in Vegas for so long, she wasn't sure if she could sing again. "I was tired. We took a few days off, and here I was recording the album at this time of the month, who's going to tell me I'm going to be in good shape, no sinus infection? There was no guarantee that I could do it."  

(5) But she's feeling good about her new CD. "I can't believe I have this album. It's grounded, strong, fresh, young. Am I getting younger?! If 40 is about that, listen I'm going to be the first spokesperson for the 40-year-old woman."

(6) Why she sounds different on her new album: "The greatest thing about it is, I was free. I felt free. I didn't feel like I had to put too much pressure on myself singing. I didn't need to prove myself, even though I haven't recorded for so long. I didn't sing from here (points to her throat) I sang from here (points to her heart)."

(7) Celine is her biggest critic--OK, maybe not. But she's still pretty tough on herself. Her husband, Rene Angelil, says: "Sometimes I watch the show and I come back, 'It was a great show!' She's depressed, 'Ugh, that was so bad' The bar for her is very high. People obviously think she's great. It's the only show in Las Vegas to have a closing date while it's sold out. But it's very rare that she thinks she did a great show. It's happened three or four times."

To read more about Celine Dion, click here for Newsweek's story on her. Also, click here to listen to the world debut of "My Love," Track Four from her upcoming album.

I was on a secret mission two weeks ago, remember? Actually, I was flying to Chicago to interview Celine Dion, who has a new CD out next week (and who has performed at the Oscars six times). More posts are coming ...

I haven't seen "American Gangster" yet—the trailer looks kind of bleh. But Lou Lumenick's review in the New York Post is full of big blurbage. He compares "American Gangster" to "The Godfather" and "Scarface." He says Denzel Washington gives his best performance yet. (Yet?! Really???) He ends with big Oscar talk: "... one of the year's best movies—and surely a major Oscar contender."

Hm. Is this is like the time Roger Ebert called "The Cell" one of the best movies of the year? Wait. Maybe not. The rest of the nation's critics mostly love it, too. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone calls it a "major awards contender," though it's "long," "overstuffed" and "limited" (thanks, Peter). Joe Morgenstern of the WSJ is also reminded of "The Godfather." Manohla Dargis of the NYTimes seems mixed in her lead, though the rest of the review sort of collapses into a critique of simple hair-braiding.

What does this all mean?! I guess it's in the running for best picture, and I'm buying a ticket to see it this weekend.

Scary Spice (AKA Melanie Brown) is a star on "Dancing With the Stars," but after the series ends on Nov. 28, she'll spice up her life with the Spice Girls reunion tour. Scary shared 7 secrets with us about returning to Spice World.

(1) All the Spice Girls were shocked at how fast tickets sold out. "You can never judge what the public reaction is going to be like," she says. "When we were told our tickets sold out in something ridiculous like 38 seconds in London, we all held our breaths."

(2) They've wrapped the new Spice Girls music video. "I saw it today, in one of the final edits. It's really beautifully done. It's very classy. It's very elegant. It's all very grown up." 

(3) Her "Dancing" dancing is different than her Spice Girls dancing. "'Dancing With the Stars' is more technical, because it's ballroom. Spice Girls, it's me, so I put my flavor on it ... it's more street dancing ... you build up a sweat in each."

(4) The Spice Girls rehearse for four hours a day. "We have singing coaches, so we can do our harmonizing. I think we're a little bit better. We've matured with age."

(5) Why she moved to LA six years ago: "London is too cold for me," she says.

(6) She and Victoria Spice are still BFFs. "We have play dates with our kids together, quite a lot. Me and my husband go over there for dinner."

(7) But she won't give us any of David Beckham's secrets. "I'm not going to rat my friends out like that! We're all about protecting and supporting each other."

Every Friday from now on, I'm writing up the cut footage from my magazine interviews for the blog. Some of them will have nothing to do with the Oscars—if that's not your thing, sorry about that, just skip to the next post.

The GoldDigger reported last month that Sotheby's is auctioning off Orson Welles's 1942 Oscar for "Citizen Kane" in December. Now comes word that Sotheby's is also auctioning off  the "Kane" working script. It's 156 pages long, with annotations from Welles. Estimated price: $80,000 to $120,000. Get your checkbook. The big day for both the script and the Oscar auction is Dec. 11.

Happy Halloween, Gold Diggerites. I'm trying something different today in honor of these scary times. Everyone knows celebrities love to play dress up—but it's not just on a movie set. In fact, a number of stars have popped up in their Halloween costumes early. Here's a countdown of the 8 weirdest so far. 

Ready? At No. 8, we have Adrian Grenier in blue spandex. Maybe he's auditioning for the new Smurfs movie? At No. 7, the woman who starred in the original "Halloween" looks like a bad circus act. Neil Patrick Harris clowns around at No. 6. You have to give him props, though. He's got a bigger fake nose than Nicole Kidman in "The Hours."

Moving on to No. 5, Teri Hatcher dresses up as the evil queen from Alice in Wonderland. And Paris Hilton is Alice herself at the Playboy Mansion. Ok, that's not scary. That's ... sexy. (You thought I was going to say hot, didn't you?)  

Number 3: Ashley Olsen is said to have dressed up as a vampire. I can't find a photo. But you can see the resemblance here.

Can anyone figure out Reese Witherspoon's costume at Kate Hudson's party? Seriously, post your best guesses below. From the same picture above, Jake Gyllenhaal is in hiding.

And the No. 1 celebrity on our list ... Britney! Britney! Britney! No, she isn't a Slave 4 U. She's a pirate.

*Maybe. I just came back from a screening of "Atonement" (Dec. 7). It's everything you could want in a best picture. It's grand, epic, one of the best love stories since "Titanic." You leave the theater feeling tingly inside. Keira Knightley, in a remarkably understated performance, should get her second best actress nomination. James McAvoy is good, too, though the Academy tends to overlook younger actors (Joseph Fiennes, Leonardo DiCaprio) in romances. It's still early in the season, and I haven't seen everything yet. But "Atonement," like "Shakespeare in Love," could lead all nominees. It's got a shot at best director, actress, adapted screenplay, costume, editing, cinematography, original score and maybe a supporting actress (Romola Garai is brilliant) or two (Vanessa Redgrave).

Update: Someone has started a Facebook group, trying to help Romola Garai get an Oscar nomination. OK, so it only has 24 members so far, and none of them look like members of the Academy. But no one else has a Facebook campaign ... yet.

She's a potential Oscar nominee for "A Mighty Heart," and naturally one of the duties of this blog is to inform you about everything in her life. Click here to see what she got Maddox at KB Toys.

My new friends at AwardsDaily are linking to an old Envelope story that I missed. Lions Gate thinks "3:10 to Yuma" could be this year's "Crash." Really? Nah. I'll admit that I, like our resident film critic David Ansen, didn't care for the Western remake. But even its fans will have a hard time arguing that Russell Crowe or Christian Bale will get acting nominations for their laid-back performances. It's not going to get a screenplay nod, since hardly anyone thinks it's better than the original. The directing category is so flooded this year--"The Kite Runner," "Atonement," "There Will Be Blood," "No Country For Old Men," "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"--count James Mangold out (he couldn't even get in for "Walk the Line"). If the Academy wants an escape picture, they've already got one. It's called "Juno." It's the most fun I've had at the movies in a long time, and, like "Little Miss Sunshine," it's going to take home multiple nominations: Ellen Page, Jennifer Garner, best original screenplay and best picture. People, it's time to get off the "Yuma" train now.