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Mariah Carey is determined to shut up all you people who laughed at her in “Glitter.”

The Grammy winner put away her lip gloss to play the battered wife of a state trooper in “Tennessee,” which won raves at the Tribeca Film Festival. Director Lee Daniels was so impressed with her grit that he’s cast her in “Push,” in which she plays a Harlem social worker ministering to an obese, HIV-positive woman impregnated twice by her father.

But Mariah isn’t getting mired in misery. As she gets ready to tour again, she’s also developing a movie musical based on her colossal-selling Christmas album.

It’s about a town outside a city - perhaps not unlike Mariah’s hometown of Huntington, L.I. - where a ruthless developer wants to turn it into one big mall.

“Mariah doesn’t want to let that happen,” says her producing partner Benny Medina. “Her character uses song and love to keep the Christmas spirit alive.”

Mariah says the script, which “High School Musical” writer Peter Barsocchini is working on, is still in the early stages. But she tells us, “Since I recorded the Christmas album, I’ve always wanted to make a movie to go with it, something that people could watch and hear and enjoy every year. I’m into it. I’m all about the holiday season.”

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MARIAH Carey wants to quash parts of an explosive tell-all being penned by her former record producer Damion “Damizza” Young, who says he’ll bare details of the “intense four-year personal relationship” they shared and “worked diligently to disguise from the world’s press.” Young tell us the songbird’s lawyer Sonya Guardo, who works with powerhouse celebrity attorney Allen Grubman, fired off a letter reminding him of a confidentiality agreement to steer clear of blabbing any sensitive information about Carey in his upcoming book, “Guilty by Association.” Guardo didn’t get back to us.

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MARIAH Carey, who got married in April, finally got to celebrate. Carey and hubby Nick Cannon were feted at Def Jam chairman L.A. Reid’s Sagaponack home Saturday night. Reid “did it up,” said a spy, and hired Andrea Correale of Elegant Affairs to festoon his house with flowers and candles. Guests, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Mary J. Blige, Kelly Ripa, Samuel L. Jackson and Star Jones, were having such a good time, neighbors called police at midnight with noise complaints. The newlyweds are spending the rest of the week at a farm in East Hampton they rented for $125,000.

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Sources say Carey paid an astounding $125,000 to rent Stone Meadow Farm in East Hampton for one week this month. At the 10-bedroom, 18,000 square-foot, 8-acre spread, the diva and her new hubby, Nick Cannon, will “chill out” - as opposed to whatever else they’ve been doing since they married. But we hear she’s also finally getting around to celebrating her quickie April wedding to Cannon. The party will be hosted by Def Jam boss L.A. Reid, and all the guests who bought Carey presents through her Bergdorf Goodman registry can finally toast the couple. If all goes well, Carey has the option to buy Stone Meadow, which is listed at just under $20 million and is the site of the Red Cross Ball on Aug. 23. Carey’s rep and Corcoran listing agent Gary DePersia had no comment.

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Mariah Carey sat down with Dan Crane from Elle and spilled lots of interesting details about her life:

Sipping Gatorade Ice (is that dinner? Breakfast?) from a wineglass, Mariah reveals pages of her life as pure storybook. Her first marriage, to Mottola, at age 23, might be observed as a Rapunzel tale of princess trapped in a tower (or, more precisely, an enormous $10 million mansion in Bedford, Connecticut). “When I was in an unhappy place in my life,” Carey says of her past, “I always wanted to be kidnapped. I just wanted a way out, but I didn’t have one.” Ten years after her split with Mottola, handsome young prince Nick Cannon has come to the rescue. “He sort of kidnapped me and took me on a helicopter ride. Then he re-proposed.” Cannon’s first proposal had taken place on Carey’s roof in Manhattan a couple of evenings prior and involved the hiding of a 17-carat diamond ring inside a candy ring pop. “They’ve been calling me Cinderella since I first started out, so, of course, being Cinderella…” she says, laughing. “Most people would think, Okay, please! This doesn’t happen in real life.”

The newlyweds met in 2005 at the Teen Choice Awards, where Cannon (then most famous for the film Drumline and The Nick Cannon Show on Nickelodeon) presented her an award. Only recently, however, did they officially get romantically involved. “We really kept the whole relationship aspect of it quiet,” Carey says. “Therefore, we didn’t really ‘date,’ you know what I mean? Because that would have been not quiet or private. I think we didn’t want to give people a chance to be like, ‘What are you doing? What are you talking about? This is so quick…are you sure?’” The couple clandestinely both got their first tattoos before tying the knot—hers is a butterfly on the small of her back with “Mrs. Cannon” written down the center; his, a shoulder-spanning rendering of her name—to signify their love.

While rumors have flourished that the marriage might just be cleverly timed to help promote the new album, such a publicity stunt seems unlikely. It may be difficult for some to buy M.C.’s deceiving combination of glam diva meets naive sweetheart, but her consistently cute image is part of the reason for her continued success. According to the press, her worst offense during her 2001 “breakdown” was handing out Popsicles to teens on MTV’s Total Request Live while wearing a skimpy outfit—a far cry from Whitney Houston’s notorious battles with Bobby Brown and drug rehab. Unlike the tough chameleon Madonna, with whom she is often contrasted, Mariah has remained a vulnerable performer, more Marilyn Monroe than Mae West. (Incidentally, Carey paid over $600,000 to own Marilyn’s white piano.) Further, despite her sales records, Carey rarely gets credit for being a cultural force; yet listen to many of the contestants on American Idol—season three winner Fantasia Barrino comes to mind—and you’ll undoubtedly hear attempts at Carey’s signature melismatic (the art of moving a single syllable over multiple notes) vocal pyrotechnics accompanied by her note-trailing hand gestures.

You can read the rest of the interview here:

http://www.elle.com/coverstory/14073/mariah-carey-nick-cannon-wedding-touch-my-body-elle.html

THE ink’s barely dry on the wedding papers but I can reveal MARIAH CAREY’S marriage to NICK CANNON has hit a rough patch.

It’s just TWO MONTHS since they wed but the couple have already had a string of bust-ups.

Warbler Mariah, 38, met Nick four weeks before they tied the knot and I gather her legendary diva demands are to blame for the marriage crisis.

My source told me: “Things are really bad between them. The honeymoon period was over before it began. Nick’s been surprised at just how demanding his wife is.

“He feels like her skivvy and moans she has him waiting on her hand and foot. Of course, they met not long before they decided to get married so there were always going to be things they needed to learn about each other. It appears Nick’s learned he doesn’t like her very much.”

Touch My Body singer Mariah, 38, met rapper Nick on a music video in March and they married on April 30.

At the time she said: “We feel we are soulmates. I never felt a love like this was on the cards for me.”

Nick, 27, even had ‘Mariah’ tattooed across his shoulders. My source added: “That’s a problem.”

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