ABC TO BROADCAST UNITED WE STAND
ABC plans to televise a two-hour version of this Sunday's "United We Stand - What More Can I Give?" - an all-day concert at Washington, D.C.'s RFK Stadium benefiting victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. The network sealed a deal with event producer Clear Channel Entertainment to air the special on Nov. 1 at 8 p.m., the first day of November sweeps. John Stamos will host. The concert will feature performances by such acts as Backstreet Boys, Aerosmith, Bette Midler, 'N Sync, Destiny's Child and Mariah Carey. An all-star finale will include Michael Jackson, who will perform his new song "What More Can I Give?" with other artists in attendance Clear Channel plans to donate proceeds from the concert to the American Red Cross Liberty Relief Fund, the Salvation Army Relief Fund and the Pentagon Relief Fund. Separately, VH1 plans to air another benefit event, "The Concert for New York", live on Saturday. ABC will pre-empt "Whose Line is It Anyway" and "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" to air "United We Stand."
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FEW UNDERSTAND MARIAH'S LIFESTYLE
You'd really need to have walked in MariahCarey's shoes to understand how she ended up with a complete physical and mental breakdown. These are the sentiments of producer Jimmy "Jam" Harris, who helmed the soundtrack for Carey's upcoming Glitter" film with his partner Terry Lewis. "I heard Somebody say the other day, 'If you're exhausted,
don't you just go lay down and turn off the cell
phone?' And I thought to myself, 'Yeah if you lead a
normal life, but Mariah is never at home to do that.
She's either in a hotel room or on a plane, and
there's always something going on... You push
yourself too hard, and there's a point where your
body and mind goes 'unn, unn.' A lot of times we are
not the best judge of where we're at and what our
limits are. "Harris first heard about Carey being hospitalized when he logged on the Internet. "We really saw no warning of it. The last discussion I had with Mariah was a day or two before she'd been hospitalized. She called me at home to go over some notes about a single and was totally coherent." Harris recalls that Carey did seem "a little bit scattered," but says, "she always sounds scattered
because she always has a million things going on with her." Carey exec-produced "Glitter" and was also totally hands-on with the soundtrack album that features such guest artists as Eric Benet, Da Brat, Busta Rhymes, Ja Rule and Mystikal(cq all). He says, "Mariah was very energized and excited about the project and very pleased with the result of the movie and the music. I hope not only that she gets better, but that she gets a chance to enjoy
it and bask in the glow of something she worked really hard on."
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