HOLLYWOOD DIRT OVERFLOW (10-13-09)

MARIAH CAREY PAUSED HER SHOW IN LAS VEGAS OVER THE WEEKEND . . . SO A MAN COULD PROPOSE TO HIS BOYFRIEND:

During a gig in Las Vegas on Saturday night, MARIAH CAREY paused her show, so that a man could propose to his boyfriend . . . onstage.

This was apparently in the works for a while. When the dude who was about to propose got onstage and took the microphone, he told the crowd that his boyfriend, Matthew, would only accept a proposal from him IF he found a way to introduce him to Mariah.

So he proceeded to introduce Matthew and Mariah Carey onstage . . . then he gave Matthew a candy ring, just like NICK CANNON did for Mariah. And yeah, Matthew said "yes." (--You can watch video of all this, here . . .) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNJB8RIPF2s

By the way, Mariah also helped Nick celebrate his 29th birthday in Vegas this weekend. She got him a cake that was shaped like a turntable . . . and it said, quote, "Happy Birthday DJ Sexy Fingers, Love M.C.C." (???) (--Here's a picture . . .)

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Tired of hearing about DAVID LETTERMAN and ROMAN POLANSKI??? Then you should check out the list of the 10 Most Notorious Sex Scandals in Hollywood History.

They go all the way back to the 1920s . . . but they also include some recent "classics", like PEE WEE HERMAN'S arrest for loving himself in an adult theater and CHARLIE SHEEN'S fetish for street squish. (--Check out the list here . . .) http://entertainment.nerve.com/2009/10/12/top-10-most-notorious-sex-scandals-in-hollywood-history/

PAUL ANKA CO-WROTE MICHAEL JACKSON'S NEW SINGLE . . . IN 1983:
There was almost a little controversy over MICHAEL JACKSON'S new single, "This Is It". --Yesterday morning, CROONING MACHINE PAUL ANKA came out and claimed that he co-wrote the song with Michael all the way back in 1983, and he was going over his legal options with his attorneys.

Well, it never came to that, because the administrators of Michael's estate . . . John Branca and John McClane . . . ADMITTED that Paul co-wrote the song, and agreed to give him 50% of the publishing rights.

Here's a quick history of the song, according to Paul Anka . . . --Michael and Paul wrote the song in '83, under the title "I Never Heard", and recorded some demos. --But Anka claims that Michael . . . who was just starting to get huge thanks to "Thriller" . . . STOLE the tapes from the studio. (--He didn't say WHY Michael would have stolen the song.) --Anka called Michael's lawyers at the time and threatened to sue . . . so they returned the tapes. But Anka says Michael made COPIES. Then he took a version of the song that had just his voice on it and re-titled it "This Is It".

In 1990, Anka gave the song to a singer you may remember by the name of SAFIRE. She recorded it under its original title, "I Never Heard". Michael's version remained unreleased until this week. --Here's an interesting detail to this story: When Anka first went to Michael's lawyers and claimed he'd stolen the demo tapes, one of those lawyers was . . . John Branca. --Yesterday, when all of this chaos was erupting, Branca said, quote, "We acknowledge that Michael and Paul wrote this song together."

(--So Branca admits this now. But where was he when the decision was made to release "This Is It" as a single??? We assume he knew. Was he trying to sneak it past Anka??? Or did he somehow forget the song's history???)


KATY PERRY IS RELEASING AN "MTV: UNPLUGGED" ALBUM:

For some reason, MTV decided to invite KATY PERRY to record one of their "Unplugged" sessions earlier this year . . . and the results are about to be unleashed.

"MTV Unplugged: Katy Perry" will hit stores on November 17th. It'll be a CD / DVD set, which includes rearranged versions of "Waking Up in Vegas", "Thinking of You" and her TIMELESS classic, "I Kissed a Girl".

There's also a previously unreleased track called "Brick By Brick" and "Hackensack", FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE cover. The DVD will include exclusive interview footage.

OZZY OSBOURNE ISN'T ALL THAT UP ON TECHNOLOGY:

OZZY OSBOURNE has admitted that he isn't all that up on the latest technology . . . and by "latest" he's referring to just about anything released in the last two decades.

He tells Britain's "Birmingham Post", quote, "I don't even know how to turn a computer on. I dictate my e-mails and my assistant Tony loads songs onto my iPod. --"I know how to turn on the iPod, adjust the volume and sort out what I want on it . . . but the rest of it, I'm lost. And they've all got iPhones now. I can't even make a call on one of those. I touch the screen and something else happens!"