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Kanye West Fur Defense – Mariah Carey Vamps it Up as Nurse

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Music notes and news – Kanye West has defended his choice to wear fur coats and PETA are unhappy with his choice.

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Celebrity cover single for hurting Haiti survivors

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“Everybody hurts sometimes” and sometimes great tragedies bring forth tremendous charity. Several celebrity singers have joined together under Simon Cowell’s direction to record a cover of REM’s 1993 hit, “Everybody Hurts”.
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Pre-Order: Charity Single For The Haiti Earthquake Appeal “Everybody Hurts”

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Some of the biggest names in UK and American music have joined forces to record an emotive cover of the REM classic “Everybody Hurts”, to raise money for charities supporting the relief efforts in Haiti. The line up of featured artists is: Mariah Carey, Jon Bon Jovi, Robbie Williams, Kylie, Rod Stewart, Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke, Miley Cyrus, Take That, Joe McElderry, Cheryl Cole, JLS, Mika, Michael Bublé, James Blunt, James Morrison, Susan Boyle, and Westlife.

Pre-Order CD Single From: Amazon UK | HMV | Zavvi (UK) | Zavvi (Europe) | Woolworths | Amazon (USA)

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See Mariah Carey live in Chicago!

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Plus, enjoy a four-night break in the city and a signed copy of Mariah’s LoveSongs CD.

To coincide with Valentine’s Day, Mariah Carey is releasing LoveSongs, a compilation of some of the outstanding tracks she recorded during her time at Sony Music Entertainment. Hero, My All, Dreamlover and Vision Of Love are just some of the beautiful ballads featured on this album. Currently, Mariah is performing at selected arenas in North America and plans to tour the UK and Europe this spring.

To celebrate the release of LoveSongs, we have a once-in-a-lifetime four-night Valentine’s break to see Mariah Carey live in concert in Chicago. A lucky couple will not only win a signed copy of LoveSongs, but they will be flown to the Windy City to see Mariah Carey’s acclaimed Angels Advocate show at The Chicago Theatre. You will be the first people in the UK to see this spectacular event. On Valentine’s night, you will be treated to dinner at one of Chicago’s top restaurants.

Four runners-up will also receive a copy of the Mariah Carey LoveSongs CD.
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LoveSongs is released by Sony Music Entertainment on 8 February 2010. Pre-order now on Amazon UK.

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Competition Terms and Conditions
1) Lines close 6pm Wednesday 3 February 2010. BT landline calls cost 50p/min, max 2 mins. Other landline operators/payphones/mobiles may vary. Text/internet entries £1 each plus std network rate.
2) One winner, plus four runners-up selected at random after lines close from all correct entries received.
3) Winner: four-night break in Chicago for two adults (18/over) Thursday 11 February-Monday 15 February 2010 inclusive, to see Mariah Carey live in concert, plus signed copy of Mariah Carey LoveSongs CD. Includes economy-class return direct flights from London, room-only accommodation sharing double/twin room at min 4* hotel, pair VIP tickets (seating) to Mariah Carey Angels Advocate tour opening night at The Chicago Theatre, 1x complimentary dinner for two (to max £200), standard travel insurance (excluding pre-existing medical conditions), and airport security/arrival/departure taxes. Any visa requirements, airport transfers, hotel extras, any other costs/expenses not included (winner’s responsibility). Both travellers must each have valid EU passport.
4) Runners-up: each un-signed copy of CD.
5) Not transferable, no whole/part cash alternatives, no other dates apply.
6) Std Trinity Mirror Rules apply, see www.sundaymirror.co.uk/rules
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Mariah Carey’s adult film confessions

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Mariah is at it again – and we don’t mean scoring number one hits. She once again proves that sometimes, she’s better off just belting out the notes than demonstrating her “fun” side. Mariah was recently reported to have called her husband’s radio show.
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See Mariah Carey live in Chicago

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Mariah Carey is releasing LoveSongs, a compilation of some of the outstanding tracks she recorded during her time at Sony Music Entertainment. Hero, My All, Dreamlover and Vision Of Love are just some of the beautiful ballads featured on this album.
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Mariah Carey: I’m not so Precious

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MARIAH Carey has revealed how she drew on her hell with her ex-husband for her explosive role in the acclaimed new movie Precious.

In an exclusive interview, the megastar, 39, revealed she poured the torment of her broken marriage into playing a dowdy social worker who saves a troubled teenager from a terrible home life.

But it was Mariah’s own turbulent upbringing – in a broken home with a sister who turned to prostitution – that made her accept the part initially.

Tapping into those dark experiences sharpened her performance, and has led to a string of gong nominations, including a Screen Actors Guild award.

Escape
But there is no crowing from the legendary diva when she talks about the film and her reasons for doing it.

Speaking about her first husband, the record producer Tommy Mottola, she shivers: “It was an abusive relationship emotionally and in several different ways.

“At first, music was my escape. But as time went on, different friends and different people would help me to see I could get out of that relationship.

“That’s in the past, but it helped me get to a place where I could grow and use all that stuff. I look forward to acting more to be able to use all of those things.”

Mariah – who says she has another acting role in the pipeline – was 23 when she wed a 43-year-old Mottola in 1993. They split up four years later and she is now now happily married to actor Nick Cannon.

But you have to look further back to understand why the usually dolled- up-to-the nines Mariah embraced the role of the plain and hard-working Mrs Weiss in Precious. As a kid, Mariah had it tough. Her white mum Patricia was disowned by her family for marrying a black man.

Then the marriage ended when Mariah was just three, and her mum ended up working late shifts at nightclubs to make ends meet.

A few years later Mariah’s older sister Alison got pregnant at 15 and moved out of home. She later became a drug addict and turned to prostitution to support her habit.

When her second child was born, Alison was infected with HIV, and has been living with Aids for nearly 15 years – a disease that features in Mariah’s new film.

The singer can’t talk about her sister for legal reasons but admits her upbringing had a lot of bearing on how she played Mrs Weiss.

“Most people think that I was born in this magical bubble and here I am singing high notes – it wasn’t like that,” Mariah says. “So yeah. I do know people who have been through some deep s***.”

She goes on: “Precious has been ignored her whole life for the abuse she went through. All of us have had a little bit of a slice of what that tastes like.

“I come from a unique background. In my father’s family there were a lot of troubled uncles and aunts and people who were literally in very intense situations that I couldn’t even go into now.

“But yeah, I’ve met people who have gone through similar things.

“And I myself have been through things that I could draw on in terms of being able to sympathise with her character.”

Mariah was given the role just two days before starting shooting – when Dame Helen Mirren dropped out.

And she had to go through a total de-glam, which didn’t come naturally to her. The only make-up she was allowed to wear was dark shadow under her eyes and on her upper lip, to give her a “miss-tache”.

Mariah giggles: “If I’d have stood out as, ‘Here I am, a well-known person even looking remotely glamorous,’ it would have taken away from the whole essence of what the film is.

“It was tough, honestly, because I am so used to the music world, which is so different with the cameras, the lighting, the angles and this and that.

“We were in fluorescent dentist office lighting. It was, like, the worst-lit scene of the movie on purpose. Lee (Daniels, the director) caught me trying to put blush on and said, ‘What are you doing? What are you doing?’ And I was like, ‘Precious has blush on!’ He was not going for it.

“I guess I’ll feel better about it when I am just normal at my house, walking past the mirror without make-up on. I’ll be like, ‘Well, I looked worse then!’”

Terrible
Lee also banished Mariah’s entourage from set and ordered her to change the way she walked.

She explains: “Obviously I walk around on my tiptoes when I’ve got on my four-inch heels. Even if I took them off, I’d still be walking on my tiptoes.

“He was like, ‘You’re up here – can we bring it down here?’ So all of the little manners that people might know me for, they had to be thrown out the window.” After shooting had finished, did she go back to her old ways? “Yeah, I had to,” she groans.

But taking off her make-up for even a short time was a big step for Mariah who has issues over her appearance.

She explains: “I remember starting out and being at a record company at 19 and having someone tell me, ‘This is your good side and this is your bad side. Don’t ever let anyone take any pictures of you from that side. You look terrible from that side.’ And so on.

“I created this whole complex – like I didn’t already have enough of a complex!”

And it doesn’t help that the big 4-0 is looming in March.

At the mere mention of the word forty, Mariah snaps: “No, darling – don’t say the F-word around me!”

Precious is in cinemas now.

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Precious, Lee Daniels, 115 mins, (15)

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The troubles of its central character are laid on with a trowel in a film that’s part social tract, part dramatised talk-show therapy.

Set in Harlem in the 1980s, the controversial new film Precious burdens its young African-American heroine with a world-class catalogue of woes.

Not only is Claireece “Precious” Jones extremely overweight, she’s also friendless, insulted and violently abused at home, already the mother of a girl with Down’s syndrome – whom she calls Mongo! – and pregnant for the second time at 16, by her own father. It gives a whole new meaning to the term “morbid obesity”.

Based on a novel by Sapphire, Lee Daniels’ film begins as a lurid, hard-times pantomime. Precious (Gabourey Sidibe) lives in a tenement apartment with her layabout mother Mary (played by comedian and chat-show host Mo’Nique). Early on, Mary throws a pot at her: falling to the floor, Precious instantly has a flashback of being raped by her father, with inserts of frying egg and sausage and Dad’s sweaty chest. This nightmare is replaced by a screamingly-hued fantasy of herself resplendent at a movie premiere – until the dream is broken by Momma throwing water over her.

Mary makes Precious wait on her hand and foot, but occasionally forces on her an emetic diet of cold pigs’ feet – apparently to keep the girl bulky, a slave to her own adipose gravity. There is no depth to which the monstrous Mary will not stoop – including speaking low and mock-solicitous as a preface to dashing Precious’s baby to the ground. She has everything but the moustaches of a villain from Victorian melodrama, so that you almost expect her to hiss, “And never darken my door again, bitch!”

Then Precious is offered a place at an education centre, where she meets patient, compassionate teacher Blu Rain (even her classmates think this name pushes plausibility somewhat). As Blu, Paula Patton positively trembles with empathy and tender righteousness – at one point a single tear rolls down her cheek. Later, the same happens to a social worker played, with no-nonsense restraint, by a barely recognisable Mariah Carey.

Those tears clinched it for me. Usually, the most damning thing you can say about a film is that it’s manipulative, but Daniels and screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher have little use for such subtleties as manipulation. Precious simply tells us what to feel and when – horror, pity, joy, indignation. We constantly glimpse posters in the background: “I think I can”, “Positive feeling is half of the work”. In one scene, the walls of Precious’s classroom come alive with exemplary scenes from US history. This is less a film than an animated brochure for self-esteem.

Well, that’s laudable, and it would be good to think that Precious might change some lives for the better. To this end, Daniels deliberately uses the broadest strokes. At one point, Mary actually hurls a television at Precious and her newborn baby. And that’s essentially what Daniels does to us, too – batters us with the shocks and big, easy emotions of daytime TV. It’s no accident that Oprah Winfrey is on board as executive producer.

But the primary-colours crudeness is really most artfully contrived – after all, Daniels produced the extremely well-crafted Monster’s Ball and The Woodsman, while his director of photography Andrew Dunn shot Gosford Park, for goodness sake. The film shows its hand as a knowing confection in the odd flash of sophisticated humour, as when Precious imagines herself into an Italian neo-realist film, with Mary as a caring Mamma proffering food: “Mangia, mangia, puttana!” (subtitle: “Eat, whore!”). And there’s an outrageous self-reflexive touch when Blu asks her pupils to contemplate the sentence, “the author describes her protagonist’s circumstances as unrelenting”.

Apart from Patton’s saintly Blu (you get compassion fatigue just looking at her), it’s the acting that makes the film. Newcomer Gabourey Sidibe gives a tough performance in a part that mostly requires stoic impassivity, punctuated by cathartic bursts of exuberance. Sidibe carries the film and gives it dignity even at its most glaring extremes – and dignity is what the film is ultimately about. Mo’Nique gives the nightmarish Mary some considered modulation – there aren’t many actors who could even conceive of delivering the line, “Your daddy died – he had that Aids virus”, let alone with such face-value directness. And Precious’s classmates work up a brisk sense of improvisational energy, especially Xosha Roquemore’s trash-talking Joann.

Daniels has stated: “I did not make Precious for white America.” And he certainly didn’t make it for white middle-class English movie critics – so what I think may be academic. But I can’t help agreeing with those African-American critics who – while many others have praised it as a breakthrough for black cinema – have seen the film as peddling grotesque, even racist stereotypes. Precious is part pamphlet, part dramatised talk-show therapy – and to be fair, it’s honest about its intentions. But as cinema, it’s just really bad, strident pulp.

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CONTEST: Win tickets to see Mariah LIVE in Phoenix VIP Style — Dodge Center — February, 20.

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Hey, Mariah Carey fans, get with me Sugabear, weeknights for your chance to experience Mariah live in concert, VIP style. All you have to do is hit me on my Cricket Karaoke phone with 30 seconds of your favorite Mariah song so call me at 602-452-1150. Sing to me, baby!

Only those with mad skills will advance to the next round so if you have talent then sing to me and show me what you can do! You will have until 11pm on Wednesday, February 10th to submit your voicemail to me by calling me on my Cricket phone at 602-452-1150…Be sure to come back daily to see if you made the cut!

Tell your friends, your family, dog, cat, and goldfish to log onto this website starting at 7pm on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 vote, Vote, VOTE!!!! The person with the most votes will secure the title of “Cricket Karaoke Champion!” All votes must be cast between Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 7pm and Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 11pm. The official winner will be announced on my show Thursday, February 18th between 8p-9p…Sing your way to Mariah VIP style courtesy of Cricket Wireless and yours truly – Sugabear!

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Mariah Prank Calls Husband Nick Cannon With Porn Talk

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Mariah Carey was up to no good this morning. The singer/actress tweeted to fans in the wee hours, “I’m up listening to my husband on his radio show in ny on 92.3 lmao! Big kiss to all up so early!!! I’m trying to stay up til NC gets home.” Apparently she couldn’t wait that long to see see her hubby, Nick Cannon , as he later posted, “My wife just …

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