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American Idol Top 9 results show was tonight and America got it right vis a vis who went home. Ramiele Mulabay had a tough time connecting with the country song and looked visibly nervous last night during her rendition of “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind”.
The other girls who joined her in the bottom two were Kristy Lee Cook who even had her own tag for her stool in preparation for landing in the bottom three as she has week after week on this competition. How many more times can she survive this?
Newcomer to the bottom three was Mesa, Arizona native Brooke White. Brooke was really emotional as we had seen her earlier in the competition. She and Kristy both hugged Ramiele giving each other comfort before the final results were read. When Ramiele was named she broke down and Kristy held her tight until Ramiele could pull herself together for the final video with her journey. Much like when Alaina had gone home during the top 24 all of the girls came down to the stage to offer support to Ramiele when it was time for her to sing her way out. One funny- you could tell the guys were all feeling uncomfortable with all the tears and waited until Ramiele was singing before they came down to join the girls on the stage.
You can watch the Top 9’s performances from last night in my AI video channel- click here
Dolly Parton sang her new song “Jesus and Gravity” during the results show and then did what she does so well chatting with Ryan and charming the audience including the judges. She even complimented Simon on telling the truth when folks don’t want to hear it.
You can watch her interview that was broadcast on last night’s episode with the Top 9 performing her songs.
Posted to My Favorite AI Moments by supernatural66 on April 02, 2008
American Idol – Top 9 Performances.
By Erika Blake
Images all courtesy of WireImage
Last night was Dolly Parton night. Dolly who’s a legendary songwriter and singer presented our contestants the most challenging night of the season. Here are my list of how the performers faired in this tough round.
9) Kristie Lee Cook
I won’t lie and say that I haven’t been rooting for Miss Cook to get booted off each week, but I have. She certainly looked nicer tonight than she has all throughout the competition, I loved her dress and thought her earrings were gorgeous. She actually seems to be somewhat improving in her stage performance as well. The problem is, like Simon keeps repeating – she’s boring and forgettable. If you paid attention to Dolly’s talking about her, her biggest compliment was “Your momma would be so proud of you.” That’s about the sweetest way of saying, “Hon, you’re a lovely girl but are seriously lacking in real talent.” Her rendition of “Coat of many colors” was bland and uninspiring. Out of everyone who’s left in the competition she’s got the least amount of vocal range and needs to leave this competition for those who are more qualified to duke it out for the top 5.
8 ) Ramiele Malubay
I can’t even tell you how many weeks I’ve been sitting in my living room telling my sister that Ramiele could have a long career working on a cruise ship. Last night, Simon actually echoed what my main complaint of her has been all along. Ramiele is a sweet girl and when she belts out her big notes it’s rather shocking hearing these notes coming out of this tiny package. The problem is that she’s not very contemporary with her singing style and she’s been utterly inconsistent throughout the competition, letting nerves get the best of her. Her performance last night of Dolly’s “Do I ever Cross your Mind” was sweet and bubbly – but like Kristie, it was forgettable. Ramiele’s days are numbered…I still see that she’s got a long singing career ahead of her, it just won’t be on the pop charts.
Daniel Waters lives in a Hollywood home where Orson Welles lived his last 15 years, and died.
The screenwriter of the dark teenage comedy survived the ’90s. Now he’s breaking from the mainstream again.
By Paul Cullum, Special to The Times
April 2, 2008
For a certain stripe of moviegoers, Daniel Waters’ screenplay for 1989’s biting high-school satire “Heathers” produced more quotable lines than Roget, Shakespeare or the Bible. The film, starring Winona Ryder as a wise-beyond-her-years Midwestern teen who inadvertently becomes Bonnie to her murderous rebel boyfriend’s Clyde, served as the ultimate counterpoint to the far more sweet-natured John Hughes films that then ruled the multiplex.
Without “Heathers,” one could argue that there would be no “Jawbreaker,” no “Mean Girls” and certainly no “Juno.” Before Diablo Cody’s world-weary mother-to-be was hushing convenience store clerks with “Silencio, old man,” the members of the student body at Westerberg High were punctuating conversations with “how very” and “what’s your damage?”
Back in the early 1990s, the screenplay became a calling card for Waters, who scored writing assignments on some major studio releases — none of which really earned much in the way of critical acclaim: “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane,” “Hudson Hawk,” “Batman Returns” and “Demolition Man.” After moving so quickly into the mainstream, he seemed to disappear from the Hollywood radar. Until now.
Today, Waters lives in the Hollywood foothills in a home that belonged to Orson Welles in the last 15 years of his life — the place where he died, just off the main foyer, is still outlined in masking tape. Nearby is a coffee-table book called “Pornstar” by Ian Gittler, which features production stills from the numerous adult movies that were shot here in the decade after Welles’ death.
“I bought the house because I wanted to get that ‘Citizen Kane’ mojo,” says Waters. “Instead I’m getting the end of [Welles'] career, the hanging out with Henry Jaglom, doing wine commercials and magic tricks part of his life. I mean, I enjoy my life, but come on — where’s my ‘Touch of Evil’?”
His new film, “Sex and Death 101,” might not earn too many comparisons to Welles’ classic, but it does place Waters squarely back into off-kilter territory. The story follows a callow ladies’ man (Simon Baker) who, on the eve of his wedding, receives a mysterious e-mail containing the names of all his sex partners, past, present and future.
Continue reading ‘‘Heathers’ ‘ Daniel Waters makes a comeback’
Are your ready for some more Dillon Panthers football?
“Friday Night Lights” will be back for a third season, thanks to a deal between NBC and DirecTV that splits costs and distribution rights, giving DirecTV customers first dibs at the high school football drama, starring Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton.
The 13-episode season will air first on DirecTV in the fall and then run on NBC in midseason, probably in its current Friday night time slot, said David Nevis, president of Imagine Television, which produces the show. NBC is expected to officially announce the deal in a presentation to advertisers in New York this afternoon.
Nevins declined to say how much money DirecTV is forking over for the rights but characterized it as “a lot of money, significantly more than if we just did second runs on a cable network.” Nevins remarked that he wished a deal like it had been possible three years ago when Fox was forced to cancel “Arrested Development,” another show with a small but loyal audience.
“I love these shows, and I think that they’re unique,” Nevins said. “They have an incredibly strong bond with them and seem to appreciate the characters and actors in them at a deep level. My whole goal is to make television that is not boring. For better or for worse, we make these beloved but not-for-everyone TV shows. And I think that the truth is that in this new climate of television, there is more and more room. There are so many programming sources that there’s a hunger for distinctive programming even if it’s not unbelievably mass.”
While the audience of “Friday Night Lights” ranges only from 6 million to 7 million, its viewers tend to be upscale, which advertisers like, and very passionate and loyal, Nevins pointed out.
“Five years ago, or probably three years ago, this show would have sunk below the water and disappeared without a trace,” he said. “Now, there’s value in these shows that have incredibly passionate audiences and passionate fans in the public and passionate fans in the press. I just think it’s really interesting that NBC, being one of the big networks, is now able to capitalize on it.”– Maria Elena Fernandez
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Apr
NBC Reveals Fall Lineup
Network unveils details of upcoming season
By JOSEF ADALIAN
NBC has greenlit a spinoff of “The Office” that will debut after the Super Bowl, and will put “Saturday Night Live” in primetime next fall.Those are some of the headlines to emerge from the Peacock’s meeting with advertisers in Gotham Wednesday morning. Programming chief Ben Silverman unveiled a 65-week sked–this summer, plus all of next year–that emphasizes family-targeted fare at 8, broad appeal or “blockbuster” event programming at 9 and adult-themed dramas at 10.
Just four new shows are slated for the fourth quarter. Christian Slater starrer “My Own Worst Enemy” is set to air Mondays at 10, laffer “Kath & Kim” will bow Tuesdays at 9:30 (following “The Biggest Loser: Family Edition”, “Knight Rider” will bow Wednesdays at 8, and “Crusoe” is set for Fridays at 8.
“Friday Night Lights” will be back–but not until the winter. “30 Rock” and “Law & Order” have also been renewed, as has “Lipstick Jungle.” Matthew Broderick has been booked for the season finale of “30 Rock.”
NBC will use the post-Super Bowl berth to air a special episode of “The Office,” followed by the previously reported “Office” spinoff.
Peacock will once again air hourlong “Office” episodes in September. In October, “The Office” will be followed by “SNL Thursday Night Live,” a live half-hour of politically-themed sketches geared to the election. Primetime “SNL” will air for four weeks. Continue reading ‘NBC Reveals Fall Lineup’
Recipients include ‘30 Rock,’ ‘Dexter’
NBC’s “30 Rock,” AMC’s “Mad Men” and Showtime’s “Dexter” are all recipients of the 67th Annual George Foster Peabody Award.The awards, chosen by the Peabody board at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, recognize the best in electronic media for the year 2007.
Also taking home tropies were Sundance Channel doc “Nimrod Nation, Comedy Central news spoof “The Colbert Report” and Bravo’s “Project Runway,” marking the first time a reality show has ever won.
For TV news, ABC’s Bob Woodruff took home an award for “Wounds of War - The Long Road Home for Our Nation’s Veterans,” while CBS received Peabodies for both Kimberly Dozier’s report on wounded vets titled “The Way Home” on “CBS News Sunday Morning: The Way Home” and a report by “60 Minutes” journalist Scott Pelley called “The Killings in Haditha.”
The Discovery Channel’s doc “Planet Earth” garnered a prize, as did recent Oscar Winner “Taxi to the Dark Side.”
The awards were named at UGA’s Peabody Gallery in a ceremony on April 2, and will be officially presented to the recipients on June 16 at a luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria. NBC News’s Brian Williams will MC the luncheon.
“American Idol” rocker David Cook was hospitalized after last night’s show, a source confirms to People. The guitar-slinging hunk was reportedly
treated for high blood pressure and sent back home to the “Idol” apartments.
Cook, one of Simon Cowell’s favorites, soared through Dolly Parton’s “Little Sparrow,” but soon after, he went missing from the bleachers as the rest of the contestants watched Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown’s live performance.
TMZ.com says an “Idol” executive explained that David has been an emotional wreck because his cancer-stricken brother is not doing well.
Apr 2, 2008, 08:11 AM | by Shirley Halperin
You didn’t have to pay extra-close attention to David Cook’s introduction on Tuesday night to hear him credit Doxology (pictured with Cook inset), the little-known Seattle band whose arrangement of “Eleanor Rigby” partly inspired his own performance — he made sure to say it loud and clear. But with this Idol shout-out, does Doxology feel vindicated? EW.com got singer Luke McPherson on the phone after the show, interrupting the band’s rehearsal for an upcoming Guitar Center opening (sorry, guys), to find out.
EW.COM: When you first reached out to Idol about this whole situation, were they responsive?
LUKE MCPHERSON: Very. Basically, we got in touch with the 19 Entertainment people and began a discussion on how we could resolve it and what measures could be taken to make sure that proper acknowledgment was given for the arrangement. We’ve been working through that for the past couple weeks and tonight was the resolution. But they were very supportive the whole time.
In your initial statement, you seemed kind of pissed. Was it because you heard that David did mention the band in his pre-taped interview but it ended up on the cutting room floor?
We were never able to confirm that, and if we came across as angry, that wasn’t our intention. None of us were ever really upset. We were concerned because, after the press release, they did start crediting Chris Cornell, Whitesnake, and other artists on a week-by-week basis and we felt like we were left in the dark. But eventually, they came around and ultimately took care of it.
Did you know ahead of time that you’d be getting a shout-out?
We had no idea. We found out after the East Coast feed aired. Our drummer’s family lives in New York so he got a call from his mommy to tell him. She was excited. We watched the show, too, and were thrilled when [Ryan] Seacrest asked David about where he got his arrangements, but when he gave Doxology our long-awaited props, we were ecstatic.
Continue reading ‘David Cook gives Doxology its ‘Idol’ due — we got the band’s response’
Apr 1, 2008, 10:53 PM | by Nicole Sperling
Fox Atomic is plunging further into the Hayden Panettiere business. The Heroes actress is attached to star in Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, an adaptation of a book by authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, which the studio just purchased. (Fox Atomic also recently cast Panettiere in I Love You, Beth Cooper.) No Kiss List centers on teenagers Naomi and her gay best friend Ely, neighbors and soul mates since childhood who have created a roster of people who are absolutely off limits for kissing. Newcomers Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer are writing the script. Alexandra Milchan, Lesley Vogel, and Emily Gerson-Saines will produce. Cohn and Levithan are also the writers behind Nick and Norah’s Infinite Play List which Michael Cera and Kat Dennings just wrapped for Sony Pictures.
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