January 29th, 2009 10:24pm
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Heaven and the Neilson ratings help this show if anyone who advanced during Thursday night’s final auditions – from New York City and Puerto Rico – comes even remotely close to winning A-I VIII (just seeing if the Super Bowl fans out there are really paying attention).
And for all you sports fans, here are the numbers: 9 contestants passed from San Juan and gained a yellow ticket to …
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January 28th, 2009 10:41pm
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This episode from Salt Lake City was basically a three-part play:
1) We got the obligatory Osmond In ‘N Out early. Seriously, in a state (Utah) that has more Osmonds than mountains how were you gonna have a show without at least one auditioner named Osmond;
2) We actually got to watch a couple of contestants with some singing talent;
3) We got the sob story at the end. That didn’t happen in …
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January 27th, 2009 10:03pm
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Tuesday night we learned the true genius of A-I. The producers took a show that produced less talent than you probably could find at the corner of 4th and Mendo and turned it into a rather amusing hour.
The opening was sorta dedicated to Randy, two auditions into it Kara and Paula staged a faux make-out session, after Day One Simon proclaimed that the talent level as “mostly they were terrible” …
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January 27th, 2009 03:18pm
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The word on the west side of town is that Santa Rosa had its very own American Idol who advanced out of the audition round in San Francisco with a yellow ticket to Hollywood.
Word also has it that Sarah Durham of Roseland Prep didn’t make it out of the Hollywood round but she was told that she should return next year.
Rules of the competition prohibit contestants from talking about their …
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January 21st, 2009 10:51pm
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Here is an updated A-I schedule, Just so you’ll know when to hit that record button:
Jan. 27 – Auditions (1 hour)
Jan. 28 – Auditions (1 hour)
Jan. 29 – Auditions (1 hour)
Feb. 3 – First Hollywood round (1 hour)
Feb. 4 – Second Hollywood round (1 hour)
Feb. 10 – Third Hollywood round (1 hour)
Feb. 11 – Top 36 announced (2 hours)
Feb. 17 – 12 semifinalists perform (2 …
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January 21st, 2009 10:39pm
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Show No. 4 moved to Louisville, Ky. And if you didn’t know it beforehand, Louisville is home to the Kentucky Derby. By the end of the show you had had about 12 furlongs too many references to the Derby, that’s the bad news; the good news is that you got 19 passes to Hollywood bringing the two-week total to 85 and finally (”At Last” as Etta James would sing) you …
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January 21st, 2009 01:40am
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For Season No. 8, Show No. 3, A-I came to SF for auditions. They first assembled the throng at the Cow Palace. So, right off the bat that ought to tell you something. The annual Dog Show is there next week and most of these contestants would have fit in better with the hounds.
We were halfway through the hour-long fiasco and we had but two passes to Hollywood and both …
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January 20th, 2009 06:20pm
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Some Idol tidbits as we get ready for Week 2 Tuesday night:
Don’t know how true this is, but it is being reported that Katrina Darrell, the 21-year-old California Bikini Girl, was recently fired from her “day job.”And where was she employed in West Covina? You can probably guess – Hooters!And why was she relieved of her duties? For repeatedly leaving during the middle of a shift. No doubt she had …
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January 16th, 2009 11:31pm
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Just in case you were wondering….
After last season the final 12 contestents went on a cross-country A-I Tour.Of the 52 dates, only nine sold out and one of those was San Jose. Don’t quite know how to interpret that, maybe because it was early in the Tour or there was nothing better to do in San Jose the night of July 8th.Nonetheless, the entire Tour brought home over $29 million …
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January 16th, 2009 11:21pm
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If you want to mark it on your calendars, here is how the shows will unfold:
Jan. 13-14 – 2-hour audition episodes.Jan. 20-21 – Auditions Jan. 27-28 – Auditions Jan. 29 – Final auditionsFeb. 3-4 – Hollywood WeekFeb. 10-11 – Hollywood Week (top 36 semifinalists revealed Feb. 11.Feb. 17-18 – Top 36 semifinal round (voting begins Feb. 17).Feb. 24-25 -Top 36 semifinal round March 3-4 – Top 36 semifinal round March …
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