NEW YORK (AP) — Lee Daniels had so much faith in Mariah Carey's acting that when the director's first choice to play a dowdy, no-nonsense social worker — Oscar-winner Helen Mirren

In the video for her new song "Obsessed" Mariah Carey does a little gender bending by sporting a beard and baggy hooded sweatshirt to play a male stalker

Millions of preteen girls across the country are ecstatic right now, and we have one person to thank for that: Miley Cyrus. The teen sensation just released Hannah Montana: The Movie last Friday

Moviegoers will get a double dose of Mariah Carey this holiday season when the singer stars in a second film project inspired by her best-selling Christmas album, Merry Christmas.

Mariah Carey leaped at the chance to reignite her movie career in independent film “Tennessee” so she could exorcise the demons of 2001 flop Glitter.

Pop superstar Mariah Carey is so terrified of getting older she refuses to acknowledge her birthdays. The Glitter star never celebrates her advancing years, instead preferring to think of herself as a perpetual child. The 37-year-old has even gone as far to ban the word "birthday" - referring to them instead as "anniversaries".

"The only thing that made her happy was her own reflection" Nick Carter pulls no punches describing his relationship with his ex-girlfriend Paris Hilton.

Mariah Carey is desperate to start work on her new film "Tennessee" after taking over the part from R&B rival Janet Jackson. Jackson piled on the pounds to play a waitress in the film but had to drop out after the project started interfering with her musical comeback.

Mariah Carey has starred in her first ever TV advertisement. The superstar singer - who has been offered glamorous ad campaigns in the past - has become the unlikely new face of Intel. Carey promoted the Intel Centrino Duo - a state of the art computer chip. A source is quoted in Daily Star newspaper as saying: "Mariah is asked to do commercials every day but when she heard that Lucy Liu, Seal and John Cleese had all done the Intel adverts, she agreed."