Diddy's going to be doing it again on Sunday.
For the first time since 2003, Sean "Diddy" Combs is hosting the return of what he is calling "The Real White Party" on the broad lawn of his white modernist house facing a sunset-friendly bay in East Hampton.
Last year, Diddy held the party in St. Tropez.
From head to toe, boldface guests at the Sunday bash will need to wear white -- not cream, not off-white, not khaki -- or they won't gain entry.
Colorful accessories are forbidden.
And those who arrive in shirts or skirts with colored embroidery or printed details are asked to either strip off that fashion item, wear a towel, or leave.

So far, RSVPs have come from the likes of Mariah Carey, Christie Brinkley, Eve, Diddy's East End neighbor Donna Karan, Ryan Seacrest, Chris "Mr. Big" Noth, Kelly Rowland, Lil' Kim, Lorraine Bracco, and Star Jones Reynolds.

Party planner to the stars Jessica Rosenblum, says that every aspect of past fetes will be "taken up a notch." V1 Jets is offering charter service for Diddy's famous friends to the party, which is being sponsored by Ciroc vodka. DJ Cassidy and Doug E. Fresh will DJ. And guests can expect Polynesian dancers, fire-eaters, and even the live jazz band to be wearing white.
In the past, trees surrounding the property have been lit with white pin lights. And scantily-clad models, some topless, frolicked in the pool.

Special guests will begin arriving on Sunday at 3 p.m., and the party will last until 11 p.m., when revelers will party on at Dune, a night club in Southampton.
At the end of the night in the past, very select guests previously returned to Diddy's pad and partied at the pool until dawn.

One suggestion: If you're not invited, don't bother trying to sneak into the fete -- Diddy's security detail doesn't miss a trick. 
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Posted on August the 31st.

The song is so top-secret, Dupri said he hasn't even heard it yet. 

"I don't even know," he answered when questioned about the record's specifics. "You know what's crazy about the Mariah records? When I work on a Mariah record, she always goes home and records her vocals without me. I ain't heard the song! She calls and tells me, 'I finished, let's go and do it.' 

"She's a person that you have to respect her for doing her job," he added. "She respects me for doing my job. When I'm in the studio, she don't question what kick [-drum sound] I use. She don't question if I'm using the right snare. She might say, 'I ain't feeling it.' I could say the same thing. There's been plenty of times when I've said, 'Mariah, I think you need to sing this part over.' But after the last album, we got a pretty good understanding. She knows what I'm looking for from her now. We're hoping we have the same formula this time." 
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Posted on August the 31st.

AHHA: That's huge to be recognized by them. What are your plans together?
Skull: I think we will be in this movie together that her brother Morgan is co-producing, and maybe work on some music together.
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Posted on August the 30th.

He told the Belfast Telegraph yesterday he had no comment to make on his outspoken interview with Maxim magazine.
But he did say: "It's definitely not misquoting me." 
Asked about his use of the obscene c-word, Holmes retorted: "And what - you're not supposed to use it?" 

During the light-hearted interview for Maxim's October edition, Manchester United fan Holmes was asked for his views on football 'bad boy' Joey Barton. 
The Sky and Radio Five Live presenter said: "C**t. What is Joey Barton about? He's an absolute animal." 

In reply to the question, "Who's been your worst interviewee?", Holmes told the magazine: "There are lots of people who you just think, 'What's the point?'
"Mariah Carey sent one of her flunkies to say that she was tired and was going to lie down. 
"I was like, 'She's f***ing tired? She should've been up from four o'clock this morning! If she's going to lie down, then I'll lie down with her!'" 
Source: Belfast Telegraph (All rights reserved) (extract)
Posted on August the 30th.

So says Mariah Carey, telling Interview's Ingrid Sischy why she doesn't own very much art. Her tastes are too extravagant.

But it's hard to begrudge Mariah her luxurious cravings. She came from very little. Indeed two sentences later she's telling Sischy about experiences as a waitress, being denied her tips, which "I sometimes stole. I feel bad about that now, but you know, it was a tip; what are you going to do?"

Mariah talks a lot about her troubled upbringing, her controlling marriage to record mogul Tommy Mottola (she muses that perhaps if he'd even allowed her to go out with girlfriends to a day spa, they might still be together. Sometimes all a woman wants is a seaweed wrap), and there is much about her house, her adoring fans, her idol Marilyn Monroe. But there is no sense of Mariah's intimate life - no man, no stated desires for children, no slowing down even temporarily to contemplate these things.

For all her success, all her invariable good cheer, all those paparazzi pics that show her forever poised and posed in her peek-a-boo outfits, there is something poignant about Mariah, not tragic. She had her brief train-wreck breakdown in 2001, but recovered triumphantly. Perhaps she is simply smart and classy, and keeps her private happiness private.

I hope so. She signs her notes to me, "The diva next door." But she seems more a strong-willed little girl playing dress-up, and waiting for something else to happen. Something even bigger than the big dreams she has made come true.

But for the time being ... she's naked on Interview's cover.
Source: Liz Smith for the Baltimore Sun (All rights reserved)
Posted on August the 28th.

All it took was developing an interest in the people involved in the production process of the records he listened to – that was enough to set 37-year-old Tan on a less conventional path to realising his career goals. 

Although – almost inexplicably – his name rings no bells with Malaysians in the music industry, the La Salle Klang-schooled Tan has two little gold-plated gramophones (the Grammy Awards, duh!) for his mixing duties on Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi (Best Contemporary R&B Album, 2006) and Ludacris’ Release Therapy (Best Rap Album, 2007). 
Source: TheStar Online (All rights reserved)
Posted on August the 27th.

Megacollage Video currently has two series of popular video compilations both focused on the sexiest videos ever made.

Seductions is a series of music video compilations featuring the sexiest music videos. 1983-1999 highlights a top three of "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" by Chris Isaak, "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears and "Honey" by Mariah Carey.

As a bonus, sexy collage wallpaper is provided for each Seductions compilation. The 1983-1999 wallpaper features a seductive collage of Laetitia Casta, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Pamela Anderson, Ali Landry and many more.
Source: PR Leap
Posted on August the 26th.

Posted on August the 23rd.

In a subject rarely discussed with the press, Mariah opened up about her mega-million-dollar divorce from music mogul Tommy Mottola.

She tells the mag, “Something happened that prompted me to leave. If somebody does something to me that’s too much, I have no problem cutting them completely out of my life.” 

She adds, “I am thankful to him in a lot of ways. I have to forgive him for being so restrictive. With Tommy, it felt like I had this controlling situation where I wasn’t allowed to be myself.” 

She also tells Interview about her famous 2001 meltdown and her hospitalization for exhaustion. 

“I’m far from perfect. I’m still learning,” she says. “I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I’m grateful to be alive.”

She continues, “I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system. But was I out of control at that moment? Yes.”

Mariah’s revealing interview hits stands August 28.
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Posted on August the 21st.

"It is very eclectic," agreed Will Schwalbe, editor in chief of Hyperion, which will release the book in October. "It is really both serious and fan, and that makes it very unusual." 

In "A Family Christmas", Caroline shares the Christmas poetry, prose, scriptural readings, and lyrics that are most dear to her, drawing on authors as diverse as Harper Lee, Nikki Giovanni, Martin Luther King Jr., Billy Collins, John and Yoko, and Charles Dickens. There are also many lesser-known gems throughout and personal treasures from her own family -- including a young Caroline’s Christmas list to Santa Claus and a letter from her father as President to a child concerned about Santa’s well-being. This diverse and unique anthology will become a timeless keepsake, and will enrich your heart and mind with the spirit of Christmas.

Synopsis:
Caroline Kennedy's "A Family Christmas" will be a lovely treasury that celebrates the holiday season. 
Caroline will write an introduction in which she relates the importance of the holidays to her family and how the contents of the book are an essential part of that tradition.  Combined with Caroline's personal touch, this compilation of classic works commemorating the holidays will make for a charmingly beautiful and delightful book.

Contents include:
Relative Pronouns by E.B. White 
River by Joni Mitchell 
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote 
Letter to Michelle Rochon by John F. Kennedy 
Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain 
The Real Gifts Parents Can Give Their Children by Rose F. Kennedy 
All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey
The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley 
The Shepherd, the Angel and Walter, the Christmas Miracle Dog by Dave Barry 
A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore 
Un Poquito de Tu Amor  by Sandra Cisneros 
A Chaparral Christmas Gift  by O. Henry 
Christmas in the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt 
A Christmas Sermon on Peace by Martin Luther King, Jr. 
A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti 
Source: CBS Showbuzz -Amazon - Powel
Posted on August the 20th.

"I make sure my clients pack a walk-out outfit in their hand luggage. When I travel with Mariah Carey, she always takes one. 

The second we take our seats in first class, I get the dress out of the bag and hang it somewhere to allow the creases to fall out.

Before we land, I wake Mariah up and we both disappear into the toilets to change her. It’s like Superman’s call-box transformation. 

We do that on every single flight. After all, Mariah has an image to protect."

It’s an image the superstar singer takes so seriously that she leaves nothing to chance almost every time she leaves the house.

"It’s fair to say Mariah is my most challenging client," says Jessica. "that’s because she wants everything to be packed for her. 

And I mean everything. She could be gone for a weekend and she’ll pack like she’s going away for six months. For a three-day break she’d take nothing less than 10 cases."

So what’s in them?

"Mounds and mounds of beautiful things such as specially commissioned Donatella Versace dresses. She will also take two, possibly three, suitcases just for shoes. Boots, one suitcase. High-heel shoes, another case. 

Then there will be another case just for workout clothes, another case for bathing suits, another case just for lingerie, another case for long dresses.

She even employs someone to travel with a case-full of jewellery worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."

So how does Jessica persuade notorious volatile stars like Mariah that stepping outside the front door without the entire contents of their wardrobe isn’t going to result in a career meltdown?

"I just laugh and smile, and for some reason I get what I want. If they want to pack 10 pairs of shoes and I want them to pack just three, I have my own little way of getting round that. I can be very persuasive.

But if that doesn’t work, I’ll just telling them I’m going to put a dozen pairs of shoes in, although I’ll end up only really putting in three pairs. I’m a bit of a conniver."

Surely that’s enough to send tantrum-queen Ms Carey into a handbag-hurling rage?

"Actually, no. If I think she shouldn’t pack something, but she really wants to, she’ll just look at me and purr, `But darling, I just need to change so many times. You never know what mood I might be in..."

So after all the sartorial bargaining, how many pairs of shoes does she usually pack for Mariah?

"Oh my god. A lot. We would pack something crazy like 30, 40, 50 pairs of high-heeled shoes. She never wears flat shoes or trainers. Not even when she’s working out."

Source: Mariah Connection UK
Posted on August the 18th.

I know someone who will be really, really happy.... you know who you are 
Posted on August the 18th.

The latest scents are being launched by David and Victoria Beckham, Kylie Minogue, Kate Moss, Gwen Stefani, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Coleen McLoughlin and Sean John (the last being the fashion brand from Sean Combes, aka rap star P Diddy). Most will hope to establish themselves as a must-have in the lead-up to Christmas.

Given the recent explosion of such scents, it may not be long before celeb smells' start to regularly outsell traditional perfumes. However, brand experts maintain that sales are secondary to establishing a deeper brand relationship with the public.

Will all this result in the sweet smell of success for the celebs, or will they kick up a stink if the marketing whizzes prove to have got it wrong?
Source: Sunday Herald (All rights reserved) (extract)
Posted on August the 18th.

Source: Fragrance MariahCarey.com
Heroes note: Unfortunately, international fans can't still get a free sample
Posted on August the 17th.

What was it like collaborating with Elizabeth Arden?
“It was so much fun working with Elizabeth Arden. I mean, I never expected such a huge corporation to feel like a family. and that’s what it feels like to me. Like every time I work with them, they’re so welcoming in terms of the concepts. If I have an idea or something that inspires me, there’s never a time where they’ve been like ‘No, we hate that.’ Every single person from Arden has been fabulous.” 

Did you tell them what your favorite scents were?
“Before I went there, I told them some of my favorite smells, and I described the Tiare flower — and they actually knew what it was. They had never used it as a base for any person before. When I got there, there was this huge board of all the things that I said that I loved. The thing about the blue grotto, Capri, and just all these references that I had given them. The sunset. It looked like it was a done finished thing. I didn’t realize how next level it was going to be. It was really amazing.”

So then you went back and forth with the perfumers? Did it take a couple of tries?
Well, we went to a few different perfumers and every time we would test a different fragrance. It was very similar to writing and recording a song for me. And not everybody realizes that I write my own songs — and they definitely don’t realize that I produce them. It’s a process that I’m really used to. They have told me that no one has been this involved in creating their own fragrance before. So I was like ‘Oh, that’s cool.’” 

Where do you spray the perfume?
What I do is I spray it — and then walk into it.
Source: People (All rights reserved)
Posted on August the 17th.

The dream concert is an event in honour of Martin Luther King Jr. and his ideals of hope, love, democracy and justice.
Proceeds from the event benefit the building of a national memorial honoring King on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Are already announced: 
Host committee: Ludacris,  Alicia Keys, Mira Soriano, Petra Nicola, Ben Affleck, Muhammad Ali, Angela Bassett, Jamie Foxx, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Albanian Tomlinson, Kerry Washington and former Mayor David Dinkins.
Performers: Queen Latifah, Garth Brooks, Joss Stone and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Carlos Santana, Robin Thicke, Bebe Winans, Cece Winans and Jessye Norman.
Co-chaired by Tommy Hilfiger, Russell Simmons, Joel Horowitz, Quincy Jones, David Stern and Edgar Bronfman, Jr., the Dream Concert will also feature Whoopy Goldberg and Al Rocker as a special guest presenters.
The event will take place on September the 18th. at Radio City Music Hall.  Keep an eye on the official site of The Dream Concert, they still add new artists.
Posted on August the 15th.

Queen Princess: Okay and right now it’s really the aftermath of creating your album so are you still writing for other people or are you still focusing on yourself?
Johnta Austin: Naw, I’m back in with Mary, I’m back in with Mariah, we’re starting a new Janet album and I’m working with Usher as well.
Posted on August the 11th.

Carey's "Unplugged," recorded in 1992, is expanded here with three music videos, an interview, behind-the-scenes clips and the artist's own home movies.
Source: Billboard (All rights reserved)
Heroes note: We will need to wait to see if there's something new in this cd/dvd package.
Posted on August the 9th.

Sources say Hilfiger, who's spending the month in the Caribbean, got his full asking price from the well-to-do pop diva for the high-season rental. 

The oceanfront Contemporary on exclusive Further Lane includes five bedrooms, 5½ baths, a media room, an outdoor pavilion with a fireplace and an infinity-edge pool, and more than 150 feet of beachfront. 

Carey could probably use some rest. She wrapped her next movie, "Tennessee," last month and recently has been recording her next album. 
Heroes note: Info for non US fans, Labor Day is on September the 3rd.
Posted on August the 9th.

Of course, we don't know if his song(s) will make it on Mariah's album.
Posted on August the 8th.

Her all-girl band - four brass blowers, a trio of backup singers, three drummers, a pair of keyboard players and guitars and bass - didn't sound bigger than a typical four-piece rock outfit. 
The band was for show, not sound. 

In the back of the Garden, the fans nearby would plop back into their seats whenever the pop piffled to a slow tempo. 

It may have seemed that Beyoncé was having moments of dementia by repeatedly asking, "Where am I? Am I in New York?" But what she was saying was she expected the crowd to be more vocal in its appreciation. I never heard Mary J. Blige or Mariah Carey say they couldn't hear the cheers. 

Beyoncé in her Arabian nights belly dancing routine - a total Shakira rip-off - was great, although I don't really remember if she sang. 
Source: Dan Aquilante for the New York Post (All rights reserved) (extract)
Posted on August the 6th.

Carey has previously charted as a support act to Busta Rhymes, Damizza, Jadakiss and Twista.

"Lil Love" marks the first appearance by Carey on the R&B/Hip-Hop list in 2007. She was last on the chart the week of Dec. 30, 2006, the final frame for her song "Fly Like a Bird."
Source: Billboard (All rights reserved)
Posted on August the 2nd.

Cast: Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Mariah carey
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writers: Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel
Producers: Judd Apatow, Jack Giarraputo
Source: Debbie Schussel (All rights reserved)
Posted on August the 1st.