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Compared with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Clarkson is almost always portrayed as a wholesome, unsophisticated girl with an outsize natural talent--a bumpkin with a gift. She really was a cocktail waitress at a comedy club in her hometown of Burleson, Texas, before an Idol audition started her on the road to fame, but it's rarely noted that Clarkson already lived in Hollywood (she was only in Burleson because her apartment burned down), or that, as a demo singer for Gerry Goffin, the ex-husband of Carole King and co-writer...
...just one loss as he went 4-1 over the weekend. The one misstep came at the hands of Illinois’ No. 2 Alex Tirapelle, who decisioned Jantzen 11-4 in the semifinal bout. The drop pitted Jantzen against Missouri’s No. 10 Kenny Burleson in the consolation match, which Jantzen won 6-4, turning in his second straight third-place finish at the Cliff Keen Invitational...
...American Idol" producers should have called their show "American Dream." Even Disney couldn't come up with a better story line: the 20-year-old cocktail waitress from Burleson, Texas who sings her cheerful little heart out to capture the hearts (and votes) of the 100 million Americans who cast ballots over the course of the 13-week contest...
Retired horse trainer Janet Burleson created the nonprofit Guide Horse Foundation after a visit to New York City in 1999, when she and her husband saddled up on rented horses a few blocks from Central Park. Impressed by the animals' calm in heavy traffic and their mastery of right turns on red, the couple went back to Kittrell, N.C., and taught their 24-in.-high mare Twinkie to lead a blind woman through a mall. Burleson plans to donate 10 other pygmy horses--now in training--to the visually impaired...
Backyards are a must for these "wonderful little lawn mowers," Burleson says, which live inside and paw at the door when nature calls. No word yet on how they react to mailmen...