Mariah Carey took a spill in June, and her album was postponed indefinitely. When I saw Mariah backstage at the MLB Central Park show in July, she showed me her gigantic bruise. She was a mess. Now word is that Carey, who’s just hooked up with manager Jermaine Dupri, is gearing up for some action. Here’s the note she put on Facebook this weekend:

Hiiii lambs!!

I’m so happy to be able to catch up with everybody here on Facebook. The last three months of my life have not been easy. Getting through this injury has been the toughest experience of my life. It took me three months to get to this point but thank God I was able to recover and get my arm back. It’s a huge deal, it should have taken eight months and even my doctors can’t believe it. It’s been a long journey, the physical therapists have been incredible and I am very grateful to all of them for helping me.

When people expected me to go “Here I am, I’m back and everything’s great!”, it didn’t happen because my hand was still in tremendous pain and it took this long for it to heal. I’ve been working day and night, and it took a lot of rest (though I did sneak in to the studio a couple o’ times!) but I can finally say that I am on my way to a full recovery.

There’s a lot of excitement that I’m going to reveal to you very soon, and sooner than you know it, you’re going to understand why but more than that, you’re going to feel what I’ve been feeling for the past- not three months- but three years.

This is, to me, one of the most important albums I’ve ever made in my life. If you’re a lamb, a fan, or just a human being that needs to feel good, happy, sad, miserable, joyous… “I gotcha” (said like Roc- you haven’t heard how he says it yet but you will soon, it’s a complete+total classic!)

It’s that time of the year. Academy Award buzzed movies are opening. And with them comes the negative campaigning. To wit: the New York Post is leading the charge against Paul Greengrass’s “Captain Phillips.” And “Gravity” is being attacked for its bad science. Can these movies be destroyed by all this? I don’t think so.

First “Captain Phillips”: some members of the Maersk Alabama’s crew have filed a screwy lawsuit, claiming that the real Capt. Phillips purposely ignored warnings and steered them into pirate infested waters. This makes no sense whatsoever. It also has nothing to do with the movie, which is exciting and beautifully produced. Back in 2009. there were plenty of interviews with the crew, especially Shane Murphy, who is depicted in the film.

Murphy and many of the crew came to the New York Film Festival last month for the premiere. They all sang Capt. Phillips’ praises. I think it will come out that the dissident crew members weren’t paid for their stories by the production company. But until then, we’ll have to endure the accusations.

As it happens, a friend of mine and I shared a cab with Shane Murphy and his wife on the opening night from the screening to the party at the Harvard Club. We asked Murphy all about the movie’s veracity. He said, “The movie’s very good. It’s funny to see five days compressed into two hours. But mostly, they’ve got it.” He did NOT say, Listen, Phillips tried to kill us and himself so one day there would be a movie.

As for “Gravity”: who cares if the science is bad? The 3D is amazing, the actors are great, and it’s damn exciting. You want to re-enact the whole thing and see if it works?

What’s next? That the man who wrote “12 Years a Slave” was a volunteer, that he did it all to write a book, and was only down south for 6 months in 1841. That nothing in “Mandela” is right, that Nelson Mandela came and went from Robbens Island by helicopter. How about “American Hustle”? Is there enough time to get all the ABSCAM people together so they can rat it out? And so on.

And so it was announced that Charlie Hunnam dropped out of playing Christian Grey in “50 Shades of Grey.” No adequate explanation. But did you know that Hunnam and director Sam Taylor Wood Johnson share the same manager? And that Cynthia Pett-Dante of Brillstein Management also manages Sam Taylor Wood Johnson’s very very young husband, actor Aaron Johnson?

Also Hunnam, it was announced in July, was going to be in “Triple Nine” with Cate Blanchett and Christoph Waltz. The John Hillcoat thriller was supposed to start shooting before the end of the year. But then Hunnam got “50 Shades” and was, according to my sources trying to exit that film. Or he actually did leave it for “50 Shades.”

All of this is very mysterious indeed. “Sons of Anarchy” finishes shooting next month. “Grey” was set to start right after that. It’s not exactly Shakespeare. Hunnam could easily have gone from one to the other. Was he really spooked by fans demanding someone else as Grey? And now can he go back to “Triple Nine”? And who will get handcuffed to “50 Shades of Grey” next?

If I were Jackie Collins, I’d be writing the book about this right now.

Paul McCartney has an excellent new album hitting stores and downloading systems on Tuesday. “New” is a lame title for a solidly constructed album produced by Giles Martin (son of George), Ethan Johns (son of Glyn) and Mark Ronson (stepson of Mick Jones). The album hasn’t been written about much because review copies really just arrived at the end of last week.

There are lots of good songs on “New” including a very catchy potential single called “Looking to Her.” But the song that jumps out the most is called “Early Days.” In it, McCartney seems actually angry that journalists and other experts are trying to rewrite his Beatles history.

He sings:

Now everybody seems to have their own opinion/Who did this and who did that

But as for me I don’t see how they can remember/When they weren’t where it was at

 And they can’t take it from me if they try/I lived through those early days

Maybe at 71 years old, McCartney is going to write a memoir–something he needs to do. Much has been written about him but there’s a lot to set straight about his collaborations with John Lennon, and his tussles with Yoko Ono. If McCartney were honest in a book, it would cause a sensation. Certainly in this song for once we get an idea of his feelings about reading all kinds of stuff about the Beatles propagated by friends and enemies.

I hope I’ll have some audio clips soon from “New.” But like Elton John’s new “Diving Board,” McCartney’s new recording presents a veteran star at the top of his game. McCartney still rocks like no one else even half his age.

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Early Days

They can’t take it from me if they try

I lived through those early days

So many times I had to change the pain to laughter

Just to keep from getting crazed

Dressed in black from head to toe

Two guitars across our backs

We would walk the city roads

Seeking someone who would listen to the music

That we were writing down at home

But they can’t take it from me if they try

I lived through those early days

So many times I had to change the pain to laughter

Just to keep from getting crazy

Hair slicked back with Vaseline

Like the pictures on the wall

Of the local record shop

Hearing noises we were destined to remember

We willed the thrill to never stop

May sweet memories of friends from the past

Always come to you, when you look for them

And your inspiration, long may it last

May it come to you, time and time again

Now everybody seems to have their own opinion

Who did this and who did that

But as for me I don’t see how they can remember

When they weren’t where it was at

And they can’t take it from me if they try

I lived through those early days

So many times I had to change the pain to laughter

Just to keep from getting crazed

I lived through those early days

I lived through those early days

Times are tough in Mel Gibson‘s personal recession: For years and years Mel Gibson kept parking tax free millions in his private Malibu church. By 2011, the Holy Family church–which is not part of the arch diocese and doesn’t acknowledge the Pope as the leader of the Catholic Church– was claiming over $68 million in total assets. All of it came from Gibson’s AP Reilly Foundation, according to federal tax filings.

But times have changed. In 2011, Gibson had to give half of everything he had in the world to his ex-wife Robyn. The total was reported at $425 million. That included two Malibu properties. Robyn’s name was removed from A P Reilly as an officer.

Today I received the church’s 2012 tax filing. Gibson’s donation to AP Reilly — he’s always the only donor to the foundation — is significantly smaller than ever before. Gibson put only $146,269 into A P Reilly last year. It’s clear that his finances have changed. He no longer has the flexibility of hiding his money in the tax free foundation.

And it’s not just the divorce: Gibson has not starred in a regular Hollywood blockbuster

But Holy Family still claims total assets overall at almost $70 million– not bad for a church that has few families. AP Reilly did claim a massive depreciation however– $1,606,579. For the first time, also, they list no salaries, and only $60,000 for miscellaneous expenses like legal fees and insurance. There’s no mention for the first of  landscaping. It’s not clear if anyone is mowing the lawn !