New York's legendary Apollo Theater celebrated its 75th anniversary Monday night with a concert fundraiser at the famed venue. In addition, Quincy Jones and Patti LaBelle were inducted of the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame. Prince, Mariah Carey, Gerald Levert, Anita Baker and the O'Jays were among the evening's guests, while Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, were given the Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis Arts and Humanitarian Award. Check out pictures from the Apollo's 75th celebration below.

"When I was growing up, my parents called me Mimi and then Mariah Carey came out ... she stole my nickname." --Mandy Moore

While we sympathize, we can't help but be grateful that Mrs. Mariah won out with her now infamous alter-ego moniker.




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We thought that everyone knew the act of singing a pop song wasn't rocket science, but a group of British eggheads apparently didn't get that memo -- and have gone all apoplectic over the album Mariah Carey released recently. The members of Sense About Science have belatedly begun complaining about the title of 'E = MC2,' not so much because Albert Einstein hasn't gotten his fair share of royalties, but because the singer has been messing with the minds of impressionable children with her explanation of its meaning.

In contrast to good ol' Uncle Al, who spent eons coming up with the theory of relativity -- summarized as energy times the speed of light squared -- the diva claimed her equation to signify "emancipation equals Mariah Carey times two." We haven't witnessed this sort of ruckus since the world's mathematicians went on a rampage over the "one, two, three, fourteen" in U2's 'Vertigo.'

For the music blogs and mags busy putting bows on their pretty little year-end best of packages, including, well, us, Ryan Adams has a few suggestions. Kinda.

"The new T.I. record ['Paper Trail'] kind of kicks," Adams told to Spinner when he and the Cardinals dropped in for a Sessions performance. "Still, T.I. confuses me ever so slightly because ... I mean, the flow is fast, and isn't T.I. supposed to be the King of the South? But I don't know -- some of it seems too boasting and I want to hear information."

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Mariah Carey aka Mimi

Back in the day, celebrity alter egos were all about creative self-expression. Now they're all about divas with multiple personality disorders. On her 2005 (don't call it a) comeback album 'The Emancipation of Mimi,' the titular character was supposed to represent Mariah's real, true, liberated self. In other words, she's not crazy. It was that other lady who made 'Glitter' that was crazy.

On This Date in 1990: 'Love Takes Time,' by Mariah Carey, shoots to the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart.

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