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While you were sitting on the couch with your hand in a bag of donuts and a bottle of Ranch wedged in your double-chin, someone at MTV was actually hard at work live blogging the show you were both wa... Continue reading "Idolatry: Von Smith advances, David Cook goes platinum" >

Last night's episode of American Idol was the first installment of the Hollywood Week pre-Round Of 36 winnowing, and boy did it seem like not a lot had changed at all since we were last in the cozy confines of Southern California. Barry Manilow as a mentor who basically gave an inspirational speech! There was a Ford commercial by a bunch of unnamed hopefuls who haven't even made it through to the second part of Hollywood Week yet! Well, I guess Fox needs to squeeze as much money out of its sponsors [...]

American Idol 's premier antifan site Vote For The Worst has got its hands on what it's claiming is this season's group of 36 semifinalists —i.e., all the people who made it through the Hollywood Round (which airs next week) and onto the big stage, where they'll be held up for scrutiny in front of text-message-ready Fox viewers. Tireless Idol blogger MJ has a page with links to the chosen ones' auditions here ; I've also placed the names of all 36 "lucky" ones after the jump. Surprises: It's Osmond -free! Non-surprises: [...]

Despite having already been on The View and the Rosie O'Donnell show, local stratospheric YouTube belter Von Smith still has to work his way through the ranks of American Idol. Or does he? The Green... Continue reading "Fleeting YouTube Sensation Von Smith Resurfaces, Advances to Hollywood on American Idol" >

Perhaps in honor of Kansas City-area native David Cook's grunging up all his songs, there was definitely a weird pall over last night's audition episode of American Idol . Sure, it was great to see Jason Castro again (he was there in support of his brother, Michael, who's pictured at left), but there was a little too much sadness: One of the contestants who made it through to Hollywood had an interview segment where he talked about his wife passing away four weeks before the audition; another singer sang "Cry-Baby"; some dude's backup singers, dressed as cheerleaders, got teary-eyed [...]