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March 29, 2002 - Fan site Butterfliesarefree.de has seven photos of Mariah Carey splashing about in the water with her dog Jack and pals that appeared in Germany's 'Bild'. Check out the pictures from the Dutch West Indian island of St. Maarten here.

March 28, 2002 - Katrillion reports Mariah Carey's rep has said her client is whooping it up on an island with friends to celebrate her 32nd birthday. That island, according to fan site MariahBuzz.com, is the Dutch West Indian island of St. Maarten, where she arrived by private jet. Check out a photo of Mariah with her dog Jack at the hotel she's staying at on the island here.

March 26, 2002 - Blue were recently on Capital FM's Takeover where they were interviewed and played some of their favorite tunes. Duncan said during the interview, "We're going to play a diva's song next. I watched the film 'Glitter' last night and I thought it was absolutely appalling. Bless Mariah Carey! I'm sorry, but if you're listening, you can't act darling! I'm not being nasty but it wasn't the greatest I've seen! But you do have a great voice." Duncan did have a soft spot for Mariah though adding, "Anyway, I'm going to choose a song from Mariah because I think she's absolutely wicked and I think she should stick to singing. One of my favourites is called 'Hero'." Read more.

March 25, 2002 - During Sunday's Oscar Awards, the show's host Whoopi Goldberg joked, "Now, you know, this has been a hell of a year. I mean, America's suffered through a great national tragedy but we have recovered. Mariah Carey has already made another movie."

March 25, 2002 - Astrologist Cheryl Lee Terry of US Weekly gave her thoughts on Mariah Carey in the latest issue saying, "Carey's Aries sun, combined with her fiery Sagittarius moon, gives her a passionate personality, and she is driven to achieve her goals. Her ego is her Achilles' heel and she fell into the Aries trap of believing her own publicity. By August, a stabilizing cosmic influence will make her more grounded - and once again a major star."

March 24, 2002 - Mariah Carey was the big 'winner' at the 22nd Annual Razzie Awards as she took home the worst actress for the box-office disaster 'Glitter'. Mariah received 60% of the vote, easily beating her four competitors. Read more.

March 21, 2002 - The girl from Spain that came to New York with several friends to meet Mariah shared in detail her experience on Mariah Carey's official site message board. You can quickly tell by reading her story that this was a carefully crafted publicity ploy, which judging by the several magazines she was featured in worked wonders, though still a nice gesture on Mariah's part. Read more.

March 21, 2002 - After a series of blunders including the massive flop of Mariah Carey's album 'Glitter', EMI has announced plans to axe 1,800 out of 9,000 staff worldwide as it struggles to pull its recorded music business into the black. Read more.

March 20, 2002 - Business 2.0 Magazine released their list of the 101 Dumbest Moments In Business in the March 2002 issue with Mariah's EMI $80 million five record deal plus $21 million signing bonus in addition to the $28 million payoff to leave the lable ranked as #95. Read more.

March 18, 2002 - This week's Black Electorate sheet notes, posted Friday says in a blurb about what's up with Def Jam, "Perhaps the recent signing of drama diva Mariah Carey to Island Def Jam explains some of the rearrangement of schedules and priorities." Read more.

March 14, 2002 - Y-100's Fay reports Mariah Carey has had a couple of items in her tour rider changed by management. Seems they don't want any glass in her dressing room that could be used by the troubled singer to inflict harm on herself or others. What is still on her tour rider is 2 bottles of Cristal Champagne (plastic bottles?), 2 bottles of white wine, bendy straws, burgers, fries, chicken potpies and spare ribs... plus several kittens and puppies to play with.

March 12, 2002 - Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith of Teen Hollywood report Mariah Carey is forming her own record company. Her attorney Don Passman confirmed the news and said not only will Mariah be on the label, but other artists', too. Passman says neither a launch date or title for the label have been hammered out. Read more.

March 8, 2002 - Nick Madigan of The New York Times profiled the continuing move by pop stars to film, including Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Madonna, and others. PR consultant Ken Sunshine explained their motivations saying, "This is the almighty dollar waving itself before managers, agents and stars. They all think that maybe one day they'll get too old to keep making records that go to the top of the charts, and they see movies as another level of the entertainment business that can keep them employed in the future. But you don't become a great actor or actress just because you're selling millions of records to kids." Read more.

March 8, 2002 - I've compiled Overture.com list of the most searched for musicians in January and by a huge margin, Britney Spears headed the pack. With over 2.5 million searches, the singer dwarfed runner up Jennifer Lopez (525,492 searches). Others on the list include Tupac at #7, *NSYNC at #9, Christina Aguilera at #11, Mariah Carey at #13, Mandy Moore at #15, and Backstreet Boys at #16. For a complete list, read here.

March 7, 2002 - The New York Daily News reports the former model who has been blabbing about dating Mariah Carey apparently is doing it for publicity. Mariah's spokeswoman said of Aaron Mathias: "She's never met him."

March 7, 2002 - The Atlanta Journal Constitution asked fans for a submission of alternate captions from a photo of Mariah Carey with Max Max Beesley in a scene from 'Glitter.' Amongst the alternate captions were: 
'Listen to me, Mariah. They'll probably give you a Grammy next year if you promise not to sing.' 
'You think you have it bad? This movie isn't going to make Max Beesley a household name.' 
'Please, in the name of all that is holy...Please don't do 'Glitter 2.'' 
Read more.

March 5, 2002 - Jeannette Walls of MSNBC reports an insider close to Mariah Carey is revealing the singer plans on starting her own record label to release her next album. The source told her, "She's talking with a number of major record companies, but even if she signs up with one of them, she wants to do it only on her own label, sort of like Madonna did with her Maverick label at Warner." Read more.

March 5, 2002 - Fred Goodman of Rolling Stone profiled the latest on Mariah Carey trying to land a new record deal. Her music-business attorney, Don Passman, wouldn't get into specifics on any contract offers, but offered, "Everyone knows she's enormously talented. There isn't a superstar who hasn't had a glitch in her career." Still, one manager countered, "I don't think any artist who relies on heavy pop hits backed by MTV is reliable. She needs MTV to sell large numbers, and she's not twenty anymore -- she's going to be thirty-two. She can't continue to play the ingenue. I disagree with the notion that she's always one hit away from being a superstar -- her career is only her next hit." Read more.

March 4, 2002 - The New York Post reports Mariah Carey has a new boyfriend, a 24 year old former model turned actor named Aaron Mathias. She supposedly met the man at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, though he was in attendance at the Super Bowl where Mariah sang the National Anthem. Read more.

March 3, 2002 - Jimmy Jam spoke with MTV News where he revealed he and Terry Lewis will be hitting the studio over the next two months to work with LC, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, "AIDA" star Heather Headley, Deborah Cox, Jordan Knight, and a new 16-year-old pop hopeful named Nodesha. Read more.

March 2, 2002 - Sue Zeidler of Reuters reports record industry sources say Mariah Carey is being courted by Island Def Jam, RCA and Elektra, who are interested in her but not at the huge figure Virgin records gave her. One label exec told Reuters, "She doesn't need a lot of money at this point. She just needs someone to distribute her music. People still think she's a very marketable brand." Read more.

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