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Saturday, February 2, 2008
2/3: Paula’s Super Bowl video, Katharine McPhee marries, Gone Country recap, Spoiler 24
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DJSlim has posted the new video for “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow” from the pre-Super Bowl show Sunday night.. It’s been more than 10 years since she’s done anything like this. Hmm.. the most interesting things were seeing Randy on stage and that microphone that bounced back up like a Weeble. Paula’s dancing was distinctly underwhelming though she looked great. What did you think?
I thought Jordin Sparks did a lovely job with the National Anthem. She was clearly nervous but her performance was spot on. (A friend of mine thought she lipsynched it, but I didn’t see any evidence of the sort.)
Season five runner-up Katharine McPhee Saturday got hitched to her 42-year-old producer/boyfriend Nick Cokas, according to People.com. Kellie Pickler and Mandisa showed up. (Where’s Taylor? Hah! I can’t imagine those two having been friends…) The photo is taken by Mark Sullivan of WireImage.
TVSquad.com has fished around the Web for past histories of the Spoiler 24, as I’m calling them. (Kinda like the Oceanic Six on “Lost”!). It’s not surprising that “Idol” appears to be working hard to erase a lot of video evidence of contestants’ pasts, including their MySpace pages. Kinda irritating too.
Here’s TV Squad’s take on the top 12 girls..
And the top 12 boys.
Good job!
And Entertainment Weekly has their 12 favorite “Idol” auditions of all time and it includes a few folks I loved early on but didn’t quite pan out as well as we had hoped such as Brandon Rogers and Amy Adams, plus the usual suspects like Kelly Clarkson and Fantasia. But guess who landed on top? Paris Bennett! Indeed, that first audition was incredible. “Where have you been hiding?” Simon said.
Now onto “Gone Country”: Bobby Brown drinks too much, sleeps in while the other six are assigned to cook a downhome meal for John Rich’s grandma and his buds. they shop, Brown sleeps. Diana DeGarmo is a bit annoyed with Brown. Clearly, those two aren’t bonding the way Brown is with Maureen McCormick. But Brown apologizes and helps out with the cooking. All is forgiven. Some are bugged when Julio Iglesias Jr. takes a nap during food prep. Carnie Wilson leads the cooking and all goes well.
Then the seven are taken to a honky tonk called Fuel and play their biggest songs. Diana does so well singing “Dreams” that Carnie’s jaw drops, Carnie is a bit nervous and shaky with “Hold On,” Sisqo is a bit weak on his “Thong Song” (blaming the band for playing the wrong key), Julio does his dad’s song “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before” with Rich and pulls it off, Bobby Brown rocks the house with “My Prerogative” and so does Dee Snider with “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” Brown starts interrupting Snider, who gets annoyed and the two alpha males almost go at it. Maureen McCormick chickens out and doesn’t sing. Promos for next week feature Bobby drinking too much again and a visit to Gretchen Wilson’s ranch/farm.
