60 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/mariah_carey/index.html?inline=nyt-per&& <p><span class="timestamp">Updated: July 7, 2009</span></p> <p>The veteran pop star Mariah Carey distinguishes herself as a hit songwriter as well as a diva with a compelling five-octave range. Her 1990 hit single, "Vision of Love," was the beginning of her rise, which has resulted in more top singles than Elvis Presley.</p> <p>Ms. Carey is one of three children of Patricia Carey, a vocal coach who used to sing with the New York City Opera. Her mother is Irish-American; her father, Alfred Roy Carey, an engineer, was half Venezuelan and half African-American. He died in 2002. Her parents divorced when she was 3. In 1987, she graduated from Harborfields High School in Huntington, L.I., and quickly moved to New York City to break into the music business.</p> <p>Although she was exposed to opera while growing up, Ms. Carey said she was never drawn to it, preferring ''freer music.'' Her influences included her mother's Billie Holiday records and her brother and sister's Al Green, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder albums. Above all, she has been drawn to the gospel of Aretha Franklin, the Clark Sisters, the Edwin Hawkins Singers and Shirley Caesar.</p> <p>Ms. Carey said she had wanted to be a professional singer since she was 4. She began working with musicians when she was 13, and at 16 she started writing songs with Ben Margulies, a young composer who collaborated with her on six of the 11 songs on "Maria Carey" (Columbia, 1990). Her big break came in November 1988 when Brenda K. Starr, a dance-pop vocalist with whom she had worked in clubs, took her to a party to celebrate the inauguration of WTG Records, a CBS-affiliated label run by Jerry Greenberg.</p> <p>''Brenda walked up to Jerry, introduced me and said, 'This is my friend Mariah, she's 18 and writes her own music,' '' Ms. Carey recalled. ''Tommy Mottola was there, and when Brenda handed my tape to Jerry, Tommy grabbed it away from him. When Brenda told me who he was, I was really nervous. I just said hi and walked away. He went out to his car and put it on and listened to the first two songs and turned around and came back to find me, but I was gone. There was no phone number on the tape. That Monday, he contacted Brenda's manager, and Brenda called me to tell me he had heard it. The next day I went up to CBS with my mom, and we talked he said he wanted to give me a record deal and put me on Columbia.''</p> <p>Her dream of fame and fortune was pretty ordinary, but her voice wasn't. After Mr. Mottola signed her to Columbia Records, they began dating.</p> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.xml-punctuation {mso-style-name:xml-punctuation;} span.xml-tagname {mso-style-name:xml-tagname;} span.xml-attname {mso-style-name:xml-attname;} span.xml-attribute {mso-style-name:xml-attribute;} span.xml-text {mso-style-name:xml-text;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> <p class="showhidetxt"><a id="more" title="More" href="javascript:toggleLayer('moretxt'); javascript:toggleLayer2('more');">Read More...</a></p> <div id="moretxt"> <p>By 1993, when the couple married, Ms. Carey had already released a series of smash hit albums, and by the time they split up, a few years later, the failed relationship had become a central element in the myth of Mariah: she called her 1997 album ''Butterfly,'' and fans were welcome to assume that her now sexier image was a sign of newfound freedom. The split with Mr. Mottola gave Ms. Carey's music an added narrative power: ''Honey,'' a collaboration with Sean Combs and Ma$e, wasn't just a beguiling hip-hop song -- it was a declaration of independence.</p> <p>Without her Svengali, however, Ms. Carey was left to figure out the industry on her own and suffered a career slump and a personal crisis. In July 2001, Ms. Carey was admitted to a hospital after an emotional breakdown, which included a semi-striptease on MTV's ''TRL,'' a dish-flinging episode at a downtown Manhattan hotel that left her hands bloody and bizarre entries about exhaustion that she posted on her Web site.</p> <p>Later that year, her foray into acting, the semi-autographical film, ''Glitter,'' bombed, as did the accompanying album of the same name. Virgin/EMI, her label at the time, paid her $28 million to get out of the contract. Of the movie, Ms. Carey said in an interview, ''It was doomed from the beginning.'' Of the album, she said, ''I don't care if it was the best one of my life, anything released the week of 9/11/2001 was not going to work.''</p> <p>In 2003, Lyor Cohen, then the chief executive of Ms. Carey's new label, Def Jam, vowed that he would engineer her comeback. He returned Ms. Carey to her big-ballad roots with ''Through the Rain,'' a schmaltz-heavy track about triumph over adversity, from her album ''Charmbracelet.'' In magazines and on television, Ms. Carey rehashed the details of her breakdown and fervently denied speculation that she was mentally unstable. At the time it appeared that she hoped to translate her personal tragedy into sales. ''But,'' Ms. Carey said, ''it's what the label wanted me to do. I really just wanted to move on.''</p> <p>Though ''Charmbracelet'' has sold more than 1 million copies since its release, according to Nielsen SoundScan, it fell woefully short of re-establishing Ms. Carey as a must-watch artist.</p> <p>Ms. Carey is known for her voice, of course: she can hit high notes that barely sound human, and few singers leap around the octaves as gracefully as she does. Her greatest weapon may be her versatility: Ms. Carey also knows how to make a hip-hop hit by holding back and letting the beat shine.</p> <p>One of the things that makes her music appealing -- and sometimes infuriating -- is her commitment to frivolity. She has a whim of iron, an almost perverse attraction to sentimentality in its most risible forms. Even hardcore fans probably have trouble taking some of her album titles seriously: ''Butterfly,'' ''Rainbow,'' ''Glitter,'' ''Charmbracelet.'' The imagery doesn't seem to fit her music, which can be sublime, or her voice, which is invariably astonishing, or her approach to her career, which is decidedly unsentimental.</p> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.xml-punctuation {mso-style-name:xml-punctuation;} span.xml-tagname {mso-style-name:xml-tagname;} span.xml-attname {mso-style-name:xml-attname;} span.xml-attribute {mso-style-name:xml-attribute;} span.xml-text {mso-style-name:xml-text;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> <p class="showhidetxt"><a id="more" title="Hide" href="javascript:toggleLayer('more'); javascript:toggleLayer2('moretxt');">Hide</a></p> </div> Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:48:35 -0500 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif http://www.nytimes.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/BnJR8rVyUzw/ Following a seasonal trend, Michael Buble and Adele continue to ride high. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fXsn9HZEM1PYg98a9Ojg75mN65A/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fXsn9HZEM1PYg98a9Ojg75mN65A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fXsn9HZEM1PYg98a9Ojg75mN65A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fXsn9HZEM1PYg98a9Ojg75mN65A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/BnJR8rVyUzw" height="1" width="1"/> By BEN SISARIO Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/same-old-songs-atop-billboard-chart/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/same-old-songs-atop-billboard-chart/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/JeUI3rnIFP8/weight-loss-with-divas-and-public-service-angles.html Three big weight-loss companies — Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers and Jenny (formerly Jenny Craig) — have started delivering antihunger and nutritional messages. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g_j4t5mSlNoxAHsYVr8UCLJk1lg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g_j4t5mSlNoxAHsYVr8UCLJk1lg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g_j4t5mSlNoxAHsYVr8UCLJk1lg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/g_j4t5mSlNoxAHsYVr8UCLJk1lg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/JeUI3rnIFP8" height="1" width="1"/> By ELIZABETH OLSON Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/business/media/weight-loss-with-divas-and-public-service-angles.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/business/media/weight-loss-with-divas-and-public-service-angles.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/BxDi-Bow218/ A 13th week for the British soul singer atop the pop chart. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RzxV8eddlp7WK3ywgA_bRAgyQSE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RzxV8eddlp7WK3ywgA_bRAgyQSE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RzxV8eddlp7WK3ywgA_bRAgyQSE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RzxV8eddlp7WK3ywgA_bRAgyQSE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/BxDi-Bow218" height="1" width="1"/> By JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/adele-is-no-1-yet-again/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/adele-is-no-1-yet-again/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/abx_Vt0l7OE/ The group's first new album in five years is No. 1. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/neb6bwJOEjccKDs5D6qJe8eL0mg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/neb6bwJOEjccKDs5D6qJe8eL0mg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/neb6bwJOEjccKDs5D6qJe8eL0mg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/neb6bwJOEjccKDs5D6qJe8eL0mg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/abx_Vt0l7OE" height="1" width="1"/> By BEN SISARIO Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/evanescence-lands-atop-chart-with-new-album/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/evanescence-lands-atop-chart-with-new-album/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/V9AmpupgUN0/ On "The X Factor" we saw performances in four different, widely separated places -- Santa Barbara, the Hamptons, Malibu and France -- hosted by the four judges. And yet at each spot, the only drink apparently available was Pepsi. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/J3VyZsnj0CNrFoL4CPPPK7L4jic/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/J3VyZsnj0CNrFoL4CPPPK7L4jic/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/J3VyZsnj0CNrFoL4CPPPK7L4jic/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/J3VyZsnj0CNrFoL4CPPPK7L4jic/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/V9AmpupgUN0" height="1" width="1"/> By NEIL GENZLINGER Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/x-factor-watch-most-memorable-performance-by-a-soda-pop/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/x-factor-watch-most-memorable-performance-by-a-soda-pop/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/ENmnOp5LUI8/ Two sisters who are tailors both to people who walk into their shop off the street and to people who are bold-face names during Fashion Week. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iJAzTZxbHVIarhOwYc7rE-Uija8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iJAzTZxbHVIarhOwYc7rE-Uija8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iJAzTZxbHVIarhOwYc7rE-Uija8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/iJAzTZxbHVIarhOwYc7rE-Uija8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/ENmnOp5LUI8" height="1" width="1"/> By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400 http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/fashions-experienced-hands-a-long-walk-from-soho/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/fashions-experienced-hands-a-long-walk-from-soho/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/6iQ4ydYNvBw/ Sir Howard Davies, who resigned in a cloud of controversy earlier this week as the director of the London School of Economics, will remain on Morgan Stanley's board <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uDd-BVXXmWDEZU0CZx9qBPUjaYg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uDd-BVXXmWDEZU0CZx9qBPUjaYg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uDd-BVXXmWDEZU0CZx9qBPUjaYg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uDd-BVXXmWDEZU0CZx9qBPUjaYg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/6iQ4ydYNvBw" height="1" width="1"/> By EVELYN M. RUSLI Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/davies-to-stay-on-morgan-stanley-board/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/davies-to-stay-on-morgan-stanley-board/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/mDBqBj92i34/26browne.html <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/arts/music/26browne.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/12/26/arts/BROWNE-1/BROWNE-1-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"></a>Melisma — the vocal technique of packing notes into one syllable — was long championed by singers like Mariah Carey. New stars like Kesha eschew such pyrotechnics. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/d_p0ekYKT_4xMtNttevfytOfp_s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/d_p0ekYKT_4xMtNttevfytOfp_s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/d_p0ekYKT_4xMtNttevfytOfp_s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/d_p0ekYKT_4xMtNttevfytOfp_s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/mDBqBj92i34" height="1" width="1"/> By DAVID BROWNE Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/arts/music/26browne.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/arts/music/26browne.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/2wjE5__FRW4/ The Belfast Giants don't want a lot for Christmas. But if they skate as well as they dance, Santa will be good to them this year. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XzQE1L_LfK3tcGalCBvNmv4MmoI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XzQE1L_LfK3tcGalCBvNmv4MmoI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XzQE1L_LfK3tcGalCBvNmv4MmoI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XzQE1L_LfK3tcGalCBvNmv4MmoI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/2wjE5__FRW4" height="1" width="1"/> MELISSA HOPPERT Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/all-the-belfast-giants-want-for-christmas-is-you/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/all-the-belfast-giants-want-for-christmas-is-you/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/6uoqtsnNa9A/fullpage.html Mariah Carey launches Elizabeth Arden fragrance collection, in partnership with Topps Company, based on candy flavors of Ring Pops novelty candy rings; customers will receive free Ring Pops with purchase; line will be marketed in youth-oriented publications in effort to expand success of existing fragrances in Mariah Carey lines; photo <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WPSqAJXO_KA2yeK_hCGATnAayCI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WPSqAJXO_KA2yeK_hCGATnAayCI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WPSqAJXO_KA2yeK_hCGATnAayCI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WPSqAJXO_KA2yeK_hCGATnAayCI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/6uoqtsnNa9A" height="1" width="1"/> By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EEDF133FF934A25755C0A9669D8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EEDF133FF934A25755C0A9669D8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/SBWrVhh7xrs/05walmart.html <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/business/05walmart.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/06/05/business/05Walmart2/05Walmart2-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"></a>The head of Wal-Mart’s international operations told investors at their annual meeting that they could count on Wal-Mart International to drive growth. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lvvxp-grqPe5byxTozi-tclEYmU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lvvxp-grqPe5byxTozi-tclEYmU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lvvxp-grqPe5byxTozi-tclEYmU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lvvxp-grqPe5byxTozi-tclEYmU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/SBWrVhh7xrs" height="1" width="1"/> By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD and STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/business/05walmart.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/business/05walmart.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/T_KGibrq3sw/02carey.html <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/arts/music/02carey.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/01/01/arts/carey-ready/thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"></a>Mariah Carey, who remains a ferocious, inventive singer, performed at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tZhxzzk2g_8flBmgW25ALY0zO2U/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tZhxzzk2g_8flBmgW25ALY0zO2U/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tZhxzzk2g_8flBmgW25ALY0zO2U/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tZhxzzk2g_8flBmgW25ALY0zO2U/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/T_KGibrq3sw" height="1" width="1"/> By JON CARAMANICA Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/arts/music/02carey.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/arts/music/02carey.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/aR0c2AJbUO4/06precious.html <a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/movies/06precious.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/11/06/arts/06precious_span/thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"></a>“Precious” is a hybrid, a mash-up that might have been ungainly, but that manages to be graceful instead. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9hbmgQ2E3m6brjkgjJf8lab-HVQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9hbmgQ2E3m6brjkgjJf8lab-HVQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9hbmgQ2E3m6brjkgjJf8lab-HVQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9hbmgQ2E3m6brjkgjJf8lab-HVQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/aR0c2AJbUO4" height="1" width="1"/> By A. O. SCOTT Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/movies/06precious.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/movies/06precious.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/B2fEf57XoZ0/25precious-t.html <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/magazine/25precious-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/10/25/magazine/25precious1/thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"></a>Is America ready for a movie about an obese Harlem girl raped and impregnated by her abusive father? <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RZnxgaa5tYVHpyEs9-yWbRAAgNg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RZnxgaa5tYVHpyEs9-yWbRAAgNg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RZnxgaa5tYVHpyEs9-yWbRAAgNg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/RZnxgaa5tYVHpyEs9-yWbRAAgNg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/B2fEf57XoZ0" height="1" width="1"/> By LYNN HIRSCHBERG Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/magazine/25precious-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/magazine/25precious-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~3/hehi3D8UxPs/fullpage.html Jon Caramanica reviews new album by Mariah Carey; photo <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VTQBljzD0LIZbTaE75-6IC3dkCI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VTQBljzD0LIZbTaE75-6IC3dkCI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VTQBljzD0LIZbTaE75-6IC3dkCI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VTQBljzD0LIZbTaE75-6IC3dkCI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NytMariahCarey/~4/hehi3D8UxPs" height="1" width="1"/> By JON CARAMANICA Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E3D61E3FF93BA1575AC0A96F9C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E3D61E3FF93BA1575AC0A96F9C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss