"Brett Ratner and Mariah Carey will Save Christmas"
L ike the Christmas star that found its way to the baby Jesus as he lay among the asses, so “All I Want For Christmas Is You” star Mariah Carey has found her way to Brett Ratner, with the two partnering on a new holiday movie for New Line. The film, still to be developed by Ratner’s The Family Man writers David Diamond and David Weissman, is intended to have a “major role” for Carey—a statement that has long been considered a threat for viewers of Glitter or WiseGirls , and a dare for director Lee Daniels. And now it is a glad tiding of the season, for those who are drunk and have already watched every terrible holiday movie on Hallmark and Lifetime. Deadline reports tha t the plot is still being kept secret, under wraps from those smug wiseacres who would presume to know what a Christmas movie might be about. However, it assures us that “the holiday is at the film’s center, along with a theme of how the power of music can transport you back in time to your truest and most