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April 20, 20105 Potential Snooki Boy Toys
April 13, 2010Happy 50th Judge Mathis
With both Simon Cowell and Judge Mathis having now passed their 50th, the aging of America’s shadow judges is certainly an issue for us all to consider, although we can surely celebrate our mock courts now be governed by men of all the greater wisdom and experience. His honor, we have learned, celebrated his half-century at the Steven Ross Theater in Burbank last night. You weren’t invited? Don’t despair, pictures follow after the jump. April 12, 2010Could Team Katie Actually Win It All?
After the stunning introduction, Team Katie hit a rocky patch, as she was hammered on every side during the semi-finals, the victim of such contradictory advice from the judges that Ellen was actually driven to mock their randomness. Since then, slowly but surely, under the radar the Connecticut crooner has, climbed her way out of the basement into the solid middle tier. March 16, 2010Idol Inferno: The Magnus Militia Counts Down to Victory
Although we vastly prefer Paint It Black to, pretty much to any song ever written, from a purely tactical perspective, we’d have to advise that Rambler would be a better direction for this campaign. While privately, you can’t go too goth for us, playing the goth card too heavily has not been a winning strategy for any Idol gal. Adam Lambert can get away with such things (or at least get to second place) but the tweens are unforgiving of gothiness in a lady…and the wrath of the cougars is of course, ferocious. We need only point to the fate of the last Idol contestant to take on Paint It Black, the pioneer of Idol rocker ladies, the great Gina Glocksen. March 13, 2010The Best of the Worst: The Apple Nigel’s Masterpiece (Sorry Mary) The Apple. Some of you may have heard of it, some of you not, but trust me: this is one of the worst movies ever made. It’s also one of the best. When this masterpiece opened, producers handed out free copies of the soundtrack LP to the audience. Well before the final reel, these same LPs would end up in a heap, tossed with righteous anger at a screen audacious enough to play what audiences at the time considered nothing short of a crime against humanity. March 4, 2010Idol in Review: Siobhan for President
This hasn’t always been the way for Idol Nation. Throughout most of recent history, we have arrived at consensus choices. Carrie and Jordin were vastly seen as the favorites of their year and the David Cook victory, while bitter to some, did not open Pandora’s box. So as we entered a new season the question loomed; would season nine be the year when we healed the wounds that had torn our house asunder or would this season only pour salt into the rift and rub it in deeper, with the war of brother against brother raging on till the dying of the light where the sedge has withered and no birds sing. |
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