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February 28, 2002 - Ahead of tonight's Grammy awards, Brad Kava of the San Jose Mercury News gave out his 'Shammys' to "the artists who did the most to make a sham of the ideals of rock and rap, who turned the music into merchandise and flushed our collective dreams down the toilet." The top popsters placed at #6: "Britney lip syncing her way across the country, Mariah Carey's 'Glitter' and Garth Brooks' Dr Pepper commercial. Need I say more?" Read more.

February 27, 2002 - Mike Walker of the National Enquirer reports during a recent visit to a Manhattan club, bodyguards for Mariah Carey stormed into the club's ladies room bellowing, "Out! Mariah's got to tinkle!" After kicking the women out, including one barfing in a bathroom stall, Mariah didn't even take a leak... Instead, she touched up her makeup!

February 25, 2002 - The New York Daily News reports Mariah Carey hit an all night party held weekly by Noel Ashman at Eugene. With Carey was singer Trey Lorenz. Deejay Mark Ronson got so tuckered keeping Carey's groove on that Saturday Night Live's Jimmy Fallon helped carry his records out.

February 25, 2002 - There was an MTV special called 'What A Guy Wants' and David Wells, Carson Daly, Dave Chappelle, Bubba Sparxxx and AJ Benza all talked about Mariah Carey and her recent problems. They all seemed to think she can come back from her problems. They also said Mariah wasn't the type you'd see in a bar, like they were at the time, but clubs and VIP rooms instead.

February 23, 2002 - Foxnews.com's Roger Friedman reports that Anthony Esposito's announcement that Mariah Carey had signed on for a 'Wisegirls' follow-up with him in his upcoming film 'Sweet Science' are premature. There has been no agreement by the singer to appear in the flick, as she apparently is looking to see how well Esposito can get 'Wise Girls' distributed. Read more.

February 22, 2002 - Y-100.com's Fay reports Luis Miguel was just in Miami doing a concert and was followed by women throwing themselves at him.. Which appears to indicate Mariah Carey's relationship with him is over. Fay says, "Mariah is still trying to pull herself back up." 

February 22, 2002 - On Thursday's episode of MTV's Total Request Live, Carson Daly had guest and supermodel Molly Sims take part in an strip tease contest with phoners and audience members. The questions were ridiculously tough on the former law student and after Molly missed the question that had her remove her shirt, Carson commented, "This is great. The last time a shirt came off was Mariah, and this was a much better moment."

February 21, 2002 - The Sydney Morning Herald examined the death of the diva, with only Celine Dion being declared a true pop diva. For their thoughts on Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Janet Jackson, and the next generation divas, click here.

February 21, 2002 - Mariah Carey is to star in a new film about a female boxer. Carey will play a boxing manager in Sweet Science. The film is being produced by Anthony Esposito who also made Wisegirls with Carey. "I had such a great experience with Mariah Carey on Wisegirls that I wanted to make another film with her," Esposito told The Hollywood Reporter.

February 21, 2002 - Star magazine reports Mariah Carey is admitting to being a tough girl in her school days. Carey said, "I beat every boy in arm wrestling in my entire grade."

February 20, 2002 - Dees Sleaze spoke about Britney Spears' acting job in the film 'Crossroads' (they gave her good marks) as well as re-hashing the story from the New York Post that Mariah Carey was rejoining Tommy Mottola at Sony, and putting out a greatest hits album that they already did a couple months ago (read: more lazy reporting). Check out the clips here.

February 18, 2002 - Searches for Mariah Carey have dropped off a bit since August as her named was searched for 172,015 times in December. In August, during the 'drama' phase, Mariah was searched for 190,000 times. Mariah's most searched for song for the month was 'Hero' and appropriately for Christmas, her jingle 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'. The most popular misspelling was Mariah Cary with dozens of variations of her first name. Read on for a complete list of Mariah Carey related searches.

February 18, 2002 - US Weekly's Fashion Police tore apart Mariah Carey's plaid dress worn at the Sundance Film Festival last month in Park City, Utah. Pop-Up Video's Woody Thompson said, "With those shoulders, she could have played in the Super Bowl." Comedian Matt Weinhold adds, "I'll think of her every time I turn my sleeping bag inside out." Radio host Goumba Johnny joked, "A Beverly Hills hospital gown!"

February 18, 2002 - The New York Post's Cindy Adams reports there are whispers that Mariah Carey may be rejoining with ex-hubby and career manager Tommy Mottola "in some way". Mottola is up for a contract re-up and landing Mariah may help his cause, while Mariah needs a hit and she's had many under the Sony head's wing. Curiously, Adams suggests they'd put out 'The Best of Mariah' or something... But they already have! Maybe she already forgot the 'Mariah Carey's Greatest Hits' release by Sony in December.

February 18, 2002 - Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times gave his thoughts on the recent moves surrounding Mariah Carey and his feelings that the 'Glitter' movie and album both flopping were no surprise. Hilburn said, "For all her record sales, Carey has never been a very satisfying artist. Carey is blessed with one of the great voices in modern pop, with a range that stretches across octaves, but she has shown little imagination in the use of it." Read more.

February 15, 2002 - IMDB quotes Sheryl Crow talking about her thoughts of checking herself in for professional help to deal with depression but she sought other was following the press blowup that followed Mariah's similar move. Crow said, "There's no handbook on becoming famous and successful and I'm a person who had this overwhelming need to be right with the world and make sure everyone is happy with me. I became totally sick of myself, I got tired of seeing myself. I got tired of feeling that if I wasn't in a magazine that interest in me was waning. Fame is a weird trip. It was really a mindblower. It took a few trips to Mount Sinai for some psychiatric help. I'm not joking. Had Mariah not had the incident that she had I would have fully checked myself in but I just didn't want the press. In a funny way, visiting Kid Rock was an important turnaround for me. I went to Detroit and it was so much fun. It totally reminded of what it was like growing up - it was all about Lynyrd Skynyrd and trucks and Budweiser and hanging out with your friends and it was like, 'I remember now who I am.' Stevie was also instrumental. She has been an awesome friend and influence on my life. There's nobody like her. I feel really blessed."

February 14, 2002 - This week's National Enquirer has photos of Mariah Carey exercising at the Enchantment Resort in Arizona in what they call a desperate attempt to lose weight ahead of her Super Bowl appearance. Mariah lost 15 pounds in the effort, but 4 a.m. workouts and a bizarre diet left her in tears and caused her to have another breakdown. Read more.

February 14, 2002 - Mariah Carey left a new voice message for fans from her kitchen with friends Jack, Ginger, and Mary Ann. Mariah attempted to get her dog to say hello to the fans and laughed as the dog Jack barked into the phone. For audio of the message, click here. For a transcript, read on.

February 11, 2002 - Mariah Carey's most popular fan site, MariahDaily.com, was voted as the favorite pop star's fan site in popdirt.com's most recent poll, beating out a strong late surge from ChristinaAguielra.to, which finished second.

February 9, 2002 - Mariah Carey has been nominated for the Razzies, aka 'The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards' for Worst Actress in 'Glitter,' Worst Song for 'Loverboy', and Worst On-Screen Couple with Max Beesley in 'Glitter.' You can vote for Mariah, or vote for someone else so she won't 'win' here (you have to pay $5 though).

February 8, 2002 - Hits Daily Double reports Elektra, Island Def Jam, ArtistDirect and Jive are four contenders looking to sign Mariah Carey. All are reportedly insisting though that Carey sit down with them and see how much guidance she's willing to take. Hits also reports a study commissioned by Virgin prior to the release of Glitter showed that Mariah's pop fans disliked her move into hip-hop while hip-hop fans didn't find her credible.

February 6, 2002 - Edna Gundersen of USA Today spoke with several music insiders predicting a bright future for Mariah Carey. Included in the chain of praise was Erik Bradley, assistant program director at WBBM-FM in Chicago and a friend of Mariah's. Bradley said, "She'll have a slew of offers and be signed when she wants to be signed. She'll have another run at the top, because she's a brilliant songwriter and an amazing vocalist. I still think there were some good songs on Glitter. They didn't perform up to her past record of radio airplay, but nobody can have a perfect run. Even Madonna had periods of low acceptance. Mariah will be back up there, there's no doubt." Read more.

February 5, 2002 - Brian Hiatt of Entertainment Weekly gave his thoughts on Mariah Carey's performance of the National Anthem Sunday before the Super Bowl. Hiatt said, "[Mariah] was remarkably restrained, with the diva resting comfortably in the low end of her prodigious, oft-over-used vocal range (despite rumors to the contrary, she did not appear to be lip-synching). The usually barely-dressed singer even dug deep enough into her closet to find a tasteful blue dress to wear, though she couldn't resist accessorizing with some seriously bling-blinging jewelry." Read more.

February 5, 2002 - 710Kiro.com talk show host Dori Monson ridiculed Mariah Carey's performance of the National Anthem before Sunday's Super Bowl. Dori said, "Mariah Carey horribly lipsynched, an awful job of lipsynching." After replaying her performance, Dori joked that one of his kidneys lacerated and all of the dishes in his house broke during Mariah's high note of the word 'free'.

February 3, 2002 - WireImage.com has photos from the events leading up to and including Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans last night and amongst the celebrities photograph were pop stars Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, and Chris Kirkpatrick of *NSYNC, Howie Dorough of the Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey and Marc Anthony. Check out the photos here.

February 3, 2002 - Mariah Carey fan site MariahsWeb.com has several versions of Mariah's performance of the National Anthem before the Super Bowl earlier today. Many fans on the singer's official site have been debating whether she actually did sing or lip-synch. Check out the clips and decide for yourself here.

February 2, 2002 - Mike Walker of the National Enquirer reports Mariah Carey goes out to eat she makes it a point to go visit the chef to make sure no one spits in her food or ''accidentally'' drops the food on the floor before it's put on her table.

February 1, 2002 - Hits Daily Double reports Mariah Carey is not drawing interest from BMG labels Arista, J and RCA, nor Sony and EMI despite the reports stating otherwise. The only labels having an interest appear to be Island Def Jam and Elektra, which should mean a much lower payoff and one conditional on performance and creative input from either label.

February 1, 2002 - Dave Ferman of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram profiled the Mariah Carey contract buyout with EMI and the source of the move, blaming it not on her personal problems, but primarily the weaker sales. Ferman said, "At the heart of this decision lies the troubling reality that the music industry at present does not tolerate even one slip-up from its artists on the business end. A label will put up with all sorts of unsavory/freakish/odd behavior as long as the artist continues to sell records." Read more.

February 1, 2002 -  Y-100 reports Mariah Carey has left the Arizona Center for Well-being she was staying at in an effort to lose weight for her Super Bowl appearance and later vacationed on a yacht in the Caribbean, where she apparently instructed her entourage to only give her good news.

February 1, 2002 - Heidi Oringer of ABCNews.com is yet another writer who is attempting to give Mariah Carey advise on how to turn herself and her career around. Oringer suggests "Why not take a powder? Then, in say 2006, come back. Fire up those fantastic vocal chords and bombard us with an album that has three top 10 hits. Just like you used to do. Do a concert tour when you are a little less tired and fed up with the world around you." Read more.

February 1, 2002 - Glenn Gamboa of Newsday profiled the rise and fall of Mariah Carey and what she needs to do to get back on top and challenge the Beatles for the most #1 songs of all time. Gamboa suggests, "Carey has to rely on constantly rolling out enjoyable music to maintain her relationship with fans. That suffered when she strayed too far from her mall-loving, Long Island roots, strutting off in those unbuttoned Daisy Dukes and the bikini tops and cavorting with Jay-Z. Much of her fan base put up a collective hand and said, "Girlfriend, we cannot get down with that'." Read more.

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