After getting canned by Fox, Roger Friendman is back reporting for the Hollywood Reporter..
Whitney, Mariah: Grammy Deadline Looms
source: http://www.showbiz411.com...ah-carey-grammy-deadline
Whitney Houston's new CD, her big comeback effort, is said to "near ready," "almost done," or "just about finished."
I'd heard last week that Clive Davis was putting a September release date on it. But really, here's the thing: the Grammy deadline is August 31st. That's a month earlier than usual because the Grammy Awards are a week earlier this year, on January 31, 2010.
Yes, that's right: a week, a month. It makes no sense, but that's what they did at Grammy HQ. At the end of January 2010 they're going to give out awards for music released between October 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009.
And Whitney's comeback may not make that deadline. Of course, it's possible a single could be released by then. But that's always a tricky story. J Records tried that with Alicia Keys a couple of years ago, with "No One" making the cut. A year later, her very good album, "As I Am," seemed old.
