On one of my parents’ recent trips to the city, my father insisted that we go to Starbucks and get “those fancy chocolate coffees.”

While in line at the register, he twice announced, “Someone’s cell phone is ringing!” to the entire dining room.

He was preparing to make a third announcement, when the woman behind him tapped him on the shoulder, pointed to the phone clipped to his belt and said, “It’s yours.”

In similar fashion, Celine Dion’s troop issued the news release “Celine Dion and A New Day… Cast Make Final Curtain Call in Las Vegas,” not once, but twice – at both 10:55 a.m. on Dec. 15 and again at 10:45 a.m. on Dec. 16.

I can only assume that as she was preparing a third round, someone from the AP tapped her on the shoulder and said, “Enough. We’ll run it.”