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...Bangs at an audition; his debut CD sold nearly 38,000 copies in its first week. Jackson says he sometimes is worried that Idol the reality show will undercut Idol the music search, which in its first two seasons produced both salable talents and high ratings. "Kelly Clarkson was great," says Jackson. "Ruben--great. Clay--great. This is about being a serious talent competition. It's not just about voting for who you like...
...hosts through the nuts and bolts of the mise-en-scene of the party before tackling gatherings like tailgates and barbecues. And publicists Lara Shriftman and Elizabeth Harrison bring their expertise in planning bashes for clients like Mercedes-Benz and Cartier to the rest of us with Fete Accompli! (Clarkson Potter) in September. But the best advice of all may be from Elsie de Wolfe's 1913 classic, The House in Good Taste, to be reissued by Rizzoli next month. "The color of [the dining room] should be selected with due consideration of its becomingness to the host or hostess...
...time when the record industry is floundering, Idol has discovered unlikely stars such as Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken. What the show understands and the music biz often doesn't, says Cowell, is that "it's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of those things that actually make [performers] interesting." Cowell has led a rebellion against the tyranny of self-esteem that is promoted on talk shows and in selfhelp books--the notion that everyone who tries deserves to win. At bottom, people are booing Cowell for gleefully confronting us with a fundamental truth: some are more...
...conventions in order to depart from more traditional cinematic renderings and privilege the message over the medium. The ensemble cast performs every bit as well as its marquee actors should imply. Nicole Kidman shows us why she should only act in art films; Chloë Sevigny, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Clarkson, and Ben Gazzara all live up to their names; and Paul Bettany, an upstart compared to his castmates, shockingly manages to upstage the veterans with a performance that should make his career...
What convinces us to buy into this charade? That the ensemble cast performs every bit as well as its marquee actors. Nicole Kidman shows us why she should only act in art films; Chloë Sevigny, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Clarkson, and Ben Gazzara all live up to their names; and Paul Bettany, an upstart compared to his castmates, shockingly manages to upstage the veterans with a performance that should make his career...