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April 30, 2002 - The Mirror
reports Mariah Carey is in a battle with Britney Spears for New England
Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady. Mariah came on to Brady at a party she
threw for her cousin in Boston, while Britney Spears has told organizers
to make sure he has a backstage pass when her tour hits Boston. A source
revealed, "Word is Britney pines to have face time with the man of the
moment and she's gone out of her way to make sure they meet." For
more on that, and word of a gal named Julia bragging all over town about
having slept with *NSYNC's Justin Timberlake, click here.
April 30, 2002 - popdirt.com's
previous poll asking 'Which pop star do you consider the most talented
actor/actress?' had Mariah Carey voted as the top choice, getting 42.8%
of the vote, enough to edge out Jennifer Lopez's 37%. Meanwhile, Kylie
Minogue edged out Joey Fatone for the bottom of the list. their latest
poll asks 'If you could remove one pop act's music from the face of the
Earth, who would it be?' Vote here.
April 30, 2002 - Mariah Carey
posted a new voice message on her official website over the weekend. Mariah
says, "Yeah, just calling to check in 'cause I haven't called in quite
some time. I've been busy recording and things of that nature. Everything
is going really well and just wanted to call and let you know once again
as always that I love ya, appreciate ya and enjoy ya!" Her friend Mary
Ann piped in, "Yes, she does!" Mariah continues, "I'm down here with Mary
Ann, recording some nice vocals tonight and I just tried to leave a message
but it got cut off, I think, I'm not sure, 'cause we were clowning around
as usual. But anyway we just wanted to leave you with a little song for
the evening." Listen to the clip here.
April 28, 2002 - Barbara
Walters e-mailed 20/20 viewers earlier this week: "...I have also been
working on a 90-minute special that will air on Wednesday, May 8 from 9:30-11
p.m. (I have been kind of busy.) This program is called 'Beyond the Glare,'
and I went back to some of my most sensational interviewees to see how
they are doing now. You will hear from Mariah Carey, Sarah, Duchess of
York, Donna Rice, Kato Kaelin, Greg Louganis and Macauley Culkin. What
a line-up! Each talks about their worst time and gives advice on how to
survive the glare -- even when nothing seems to be going right."
April 25, 2002 - Hits Daily
Double reports sources close to the Mariah Carey negotiations now saying
key man clauses (ie. she could leave the label should the 'key man' depart)
may be a determining factor before she signs a deal. Many remember that
during Mariah's previous deal with Virgin/EMI, the label removed president
Ken Berry and later Nancy Berry, the label's vice chairman. Flashback to
the glowing praises each gave Mariah when she was signed by the label here.
April 24, 2002 - Popdirt.com's
latest poll asks, 'Which pop star do you consider the most talented actor/actress?'
Vote for Mariah Carey here.
April 20, 2002 - The National
Enquirer spoke with Mariah Carey's rep Cindi Berger following their report
that her ex-husband Tommy Mottola of Sony Records had plotted to ruin her
career by upstaging her with Jennifer Lopez. Berger responded by saying,
"Mariah is in an incredibly positive space right now. She's recording her
new album, her role in the movie 'Wisegirls' is getting wonderful notices
from the press, and three or four record companies are aggressively pursuing
her. She doesn't want to dwell on the past." Read more.
April 19, 2002 - MTV News
spoke with producer 7 Aurelius earlier this week who had just returned
from the Bahamas where he'd been helping out Mariah Carey on recording
a new album, despite still not having a record label to call home. 7 said,
"She's an amazing writer. We did three or four songs in three or four days.
The way we was doing it, I had [a horn section] down there along with me.
We had the whole room set up with candles, some nice wine — [it was] a
very good vibe. It was completely stripped down, like 'Mariah Carey Unplugged.'
She stripped herself down to her talent. She was really trusting of me
and my vision, and I was trusting of who she was." Read more.
April 19, 2002 - The Sun
has photos of the backsides of several pop stars in their latest photo
special, likely prompted by Jennifer Lopez's decision to wear a very tiny
pair of hot pants in her latest video for 'I’m Gonna Be Alright'. You can
check out the butts of J.Lo, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Kylie
Minogue, Mariah Carey, and more here.
April 18, 2002 - popdirt.com's
latest survey asking 'Which pop star has the best hairstyle?' had Mariah
Carey winning in a runaway - getting 36.5% of the vote, besting Backstreet
Boys member Nick Carter who was second with 15.2%... his brother Aaron
didn't fair so well, getting only .67% and ending up in last.
April 18, 2002 - Anonymous
writes "When Da Brat raps on Mariah Carey's 'Loverboy Remix' - the first
track off of 'Glitter' - she actually raps to the tune of 'Firecracker',
the sample that Jennifer Lopez stole from Mariah. The lyrics also seem
to be aimed at J.Lo:
"Hate on me as much as you
want to
You can't do what the fu**
I do
Bit**es be emulating me
daily
Hate on me as much as you
want to
You can't be who the fu**
I be
Bit**es be imitating me
lately""
April 15, 2002 - Mike Mandel,
associate photo editor of Yahoo! Internet Life, has named MariahCarey.com
as his favorite website. Mandal writes, "Though I'm a married male in my
30's, my secret fantasy had always been to be the most popular teenage
girl at school. I imagined lying on my canopy bed, staring at my bubble-gum
pink walls and daydreaming about my future boyfriend. This fantasy exists
virtually at Mariah Carey's official site, where I learned that it's not
so easy being Ms. Popular." Read more.
April 15, 2002 - The New
York Post reports Mariah Carey is being courted by J Records, Island/Def
Jam, and Warner Music. Clive is promising creative control if she heads
to his J Records label, while Lyor Cohen's Island/Def Jam is offering the
cross promo opporunities their parent company, Vivendi, can offer her with
their Universal film division. Meanwhile, they also report Carey was turned
away at the door of Nicky Hilton's FHM bash at Eugene because the place
was too packed. Read more.
April 14, 2002 - The Factor
with Bill O'Reilly had a rather negative story about the lack of promotional
work artists such as Mariah Carey, Enrique Iglesias, Faith Hill, and others
did (or didn't do) for the 'America: A Tribute To Heroes' CD that has only
sold 600,000 copies to date. O'Reilly blasted, "Doing good is a long-term
strategy. You can't do a project and let it go. You have to see it through
to the end. If these pop stars really wanted to make a difference, they
would have promoted the heck out of that recording on their own time and
dime. The media loves these people. Getting attention is no problem. But,
no, the project failed and it shouldn't have."
April 13, 2002 - Mariah Carey
fan site mariahdownunder.com reports the singer's Razzie winning performance
in 'Glitter' is doing quite well in Australia's video stores despite failing
badly at the box office. VHS/DVD rental stores such as Video Ezy and Blockbuster
had stocked only a few copies of the new release and were left hired out
in the majority of outlets (60%) as of Thursday night. Read more.
April 13, 2002 - People Magazine
reports: "Mariah Carey's fashion stylist Blaire Levine thought she had
zeroed in on a novel cadeau for the songbird's 33rd birthday on March 27:
pale pink $490 Giuseppe Zanotti satin stilettos with butterfly appliqués
on the heels that Levine had special-ordered from Beverly Hills's hip I
Love Shoes shop. Fab idea for the butterfly-loving star, who named her
hit 1997 CD after the winged insect, but not an original one. Turns out
Levine had to cancel the buy when she learned Carey had already received
two pairs of the same shoe."
April 13, 2002 - Reuters
spoke with Mariah Carey's spokeswoman Thursday on where the singer is at
in the search for a new label deal. Cindi Berger said, "There are three
or four big labels aggressively pursuing her. Mariah's a smart business
woman and is taking her time before she makes any decisions." Read more.
April 12, 2002 - Eilish O'Regan
of Unison.ie reports an expert on eating disorders is saying female celebrities
who have "fuller figures" - such as Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez are
good role models for women. Dr Michael Bourke, a psychiatrist in the Blackrock
Clinic in Dublin, commented it was wonderful to see these female superstars
with normal physiques. Read more.
April 11, 2002 - The New
York Daily News reports Clive Davis of J Records has submitted a last-minute
offer to sign a record deal with Mariah Carey, according to sources close
to the talks. The move means Carey is currently choosing between Davis
and Island Def Jam, and Carey hopes to make a decision within the next
few weeks. Read more.
April 11, 2002 - MSNBC gossip
writer Jeannette Walls singled out Mariah Carey fan site MariahDaily.com
who posted the following message that may question the reliability of reader
generated movie reviews, "Wisegirls only has a 4.6 out of 10 at the Internet
Movice [sic] Database under the Users Ratings. If you got [sic] a little
extra time, go give it a great review by clicking here. Obviously you didn’t
see it but let’s make the movie look good."
April 9, 2002 - In wake of
the recent reports that Tommy Mottola worked to sabotage Mariah Carey's
career using Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule to facilitate the move, Ja revealed
to Launch.com last August, "I got a call from J. Lo and them, they heard
the record that I did for her (Mariah) somehow, and they thought the record
was like incredible. So they called me and said, 'We want you to do a record
for J. Lo's new single, 'I'm Real,' but we need it now. Like right now.
We're shooting the video Saturday.' It was like Thursday, I got the call.
So they bring the record over, and drop it off. Like with no instructions,
like, 'Do what you want Ja.' And that was the whole awkward thing about
it, like, 'What do you mean? Do what I want.' I was like, 'I've never wrote
a whole R&B record,' and it just shocked me. And he was like, 'Yeah,
do what you want with it.'" Listen to the quote and read more here.
April 8, 2002 - Popdirt.com's
latest poll asks which pop star has the best hairstyle and Mariah Carey
is nominated. Vote here.
April 7, 2002 - Anonymous
writes "Today on WBLS 107.5 (NYC) Wendy Williams ("The Wendy Williams Experience")
was mentioning the story about how Irv Gotti admitted to the "Glitter"
sabotage. She said that the story is getting a lot of press and then stated
that she too was asked by Tommy Mottola about a year ago to sabotage Mariah.
She didn't give much details (she is saving those for her book that she
is writing) but did say that there was a "large sum of money at the end
of that phone conversation--in the 5-digit area"" Read more.
April 6, 2002 - Rolling Stone
writer Anthony DeCurtis spoke with Jon Casimir of the Sydney Morning Herald
on the rise and fall of Mariah Carey, a trend that has begun to rise in
the music world. DeCrutis said, "The music business has become the marketing
business. It knows how to take a record that might in prior times have
sold a million records and make it sell 10 million records. But by the
end of that process it has exhausted everyone's patience with that artist.
It's the case of killing the goose that laid the golden egg." Read more
on the Mariah 'pop star to pariah' feature here.
April 5, 2002 - Roger Friedman
of Fox News has yet another piece today on Mariah Carey's work getting
pilfered by Jennifer Lopez - on the same 'I'm Real' track, including a
sample on the track, and a concept as well. Read more.
April 4, 2002 - Roger Friedman
of Fox News reports Mariah Carey seems to have gotten vindication on her
charge that Tommy Mottola moved to damage her career by having Jennifer
Lopez do a sound-alike album under Irv Gotti. In XXL magazine's article
with Gotti, he was asked about whether Mottola had asked Murder Inc. to
do the remix of 'I'm Real' after hearing a song Ja Rule did with Mariah
Carey on the Glitter soundtrack. Gotti said in response, "Ja wrote a song
with him and Mariah singing back and forth on the title track. I get a
call from Tommy Mottola, who I have a great relationship with, and he's
like, 'I need you to do me a favor. I want you to do this remix for Jennifer
Lopez. I want you to put Ja on the record.' Immediately I knew what he
was doing because we just finished the Mariah record." Read more.
April 3, 2002 - Anonymous
writes "According to Celebrity Insider and NY radio station KTU, Mariah
Carey called Celine Dion on Saturday, March 30 to wish her a Happy Birthday!
Celine had called Mariah Wednesday, March 27th to wish Mariah a Happy Birthday.
Sources say that Mariah received a basket of body accessories from Celine,
but no word as to whether or not Mariah bought anyting for Celine. Carey
turned 32 and Dion turned 34."
April 3, 2002 - Mariah Carey
has been working out since she signed on to sing the National Anthem at
Super Bowl XXXVI, and now the diva has got her shape back - she looks better
than ever! Check out the exclusive pictures and that appeared in the new
National Enquirer at Mariah
Land.
April 1, 2002 - Mariah Carey
fan site Butterflies Are Free has a scanned article featuring Mariah Carey
sipping on red wine while partying with friends out in the water during
her vacation in St. Barthelemy. Check it out here.
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