Mariah Carey Is Ready To Prove That She Can Act!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:18 pm

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
theTribeca 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 Hungtington,
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.”