Celine Dion

Rockers like to imagine that this Quebeoise thrush embodies all that is Not Rock -- mushy soundtrack ballads, windswept weepers for your girlfriend's mom, cloying Hallmark poesy. We should be so lucky -- unfortunately, rock makes plenty of space for those qualities. In fact, Dion is harder than most chart-topping gangstas, and her sentimentality is bombastic and defiant rather than demure and ret...