April 21, 2010

Idol Memory Lane: What Season One Friends Are For

How can any citizen of Idol Nation watch this video, knowing the destinies that await each of them without tears coming to your eyes?

In its way perhaps the most poignant and lovely of all group numbers. And not just because I’m a sucker for Bacharach.

March 5, 2010

Lane Of Idol Memories: The Golden Age of Idol/Ford Ads

Filed under: American Idol — Tags: Richard Rushfield @ 1:03 am

To think it all was so simple then, or has time rewritten every line?

The fact that Kelly didn’t win an Emmy for her interpretation of the line “I have a map” will go down as one of the great travesties in television history.