American Idol : Big News

A lot of very savvy song choices, some major stumbles from front-runners (by which I mean the people whose initials aren't D and A, since we're talking front-runners for second place) and my girl Syesha is in trouble.

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David Vs. David -- The Final Two Contestants!

Kimberly Caldwell, 05.19.2008

Even though the talent this year has been outstanding, I think all of America has known since the Top 24, that the finals would come down to David versus David.

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Talking Idol Before The Show's Finale

Kimberly Caldwell, 05.13.2008

We're now down to the final 3 of what I think is the most unique top 12 ever and I have to give kudos to Syesha for being the last girl standing.

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Mariah Carey is Destroying the World!!

Ken Levine, 04.11.2008

Oh no! Mariah Carey now has more number one singles than Elvis Presley. The unspeakable horror!! At what point do we just say we can't go on? At what point do we stop believing in God?

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"Life Of Barack": Obama Blows Nose - Denies Being Messiah

Martin Lewis, 02.21.2008

• ITEM "About a half-hour into a speech here, the Illinois Democrat announced that he had to take a quick break. 'Gotta blow my nose here for a sec...

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Why Entertainment Weekly Rules the World

Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts, 06.23.2008

Too many readers are concerned about prestige rather than learning something. EW takes us to new places because the magazine covers only what is new.

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American Idol and the Cool Quotient

Sharon Waxman, 05.22.2008

You can read the dominance of the cult of American Idol and the demise of the American music business in the cool quotient of performers at the results finale at the Nokia theater last night.

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Shame TV: Why Humiliation Sells on American Idol and Others

Tom Alderman, 02.13.2008

Our media is shaped by the content of our culture, so how do we account for this coarsening of our culture, this growth of Shame TV?

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Jesus Idol: Contestants Ask WWJD? I Ask WTF???

Patrick Waldo, 04.11.2008

What the hell happened to my favorite karaoke show? First Kristy Lee Cook vomits out "Proud To Be An American" and now we've moved on to singing praise to Jesus?

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"Lost" Season Finale Caps Broadcast's Strangest Year

Ed Martin, 05.29.2008

The strangeness surrounding the strike-compromised 2007-08 broadcast season just won't stop -- even now that the season is over.

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What Reality TV Reveals About Obama

Vanessa Richmond, 06.12.2008

So You Think You Can Dance is the underdog but odds-on-favorite in the race to be America's Next Top Reality Show. But though I have been glued to the box since it's first season, I have seen no previous winners of the show anywhere after.

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American Idol Auditions: Week Two

Michael Giltz, 01.23.2008

This season seemed to mark the beginning of a kinder, gentler Idol with the scenes of judges and bad singers emphasizing their kid glove treatment.

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American Idol Top 12: The Beatles

Michael Giltz, 03.12.2008

Ryan Seacrest said we had been waiting for it with bated breath. But it wasn't the Top 12 he was referring to -- it was the set.

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American Idol Finally...I Mean Finale

Ken Levine, 05.22.2008

I must say I was surprised and pleased that David Cook won. Not that I disliked Archuleta. He could certainly sing Dan Fogelberg songs. It's just that, well...I'm not twelve.

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American Idol Top 7: The Results

Michael Giltz, 04.16.2008

My apologies to Mariah Carey. I thought she would be a disaster as a coach and that a week devoted to her songs would be a mountain of melisma overload.

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