Word: idol
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...coverage of minority events and issues. The outburst was sparked by a particularly offensive reference in the first paper of the year—the Daily’s Arts section ran the caption “Buckwheat Sings” under a picture of Justin Guarini, the American Idol finalist, who is of mixed race...
...Monkees demonstrated long ago, there's no better medium than television for putting chipper, derivative pop singers on top of the singles charts. KELLY CLARKSON, 20, the former cocktail waitress from Burleston, Texas, who won Fox's American Idol talent contest along with a record deal with RCA, hit the royalties jackpot with A Moment Like This, the song she performed on the show's finale. The tune rose from its early slot of 52 on Billboard's Hot 100 to No. 1. Next month she starts a U.S. tour with nine former rivals, including runner-up Justin Guarini...
...MINUTES KELLY CLARKSON, AMERICAN IDOL...
...stood out in the prim world of Canto-pop like Eminem at a church social. Nicholas Tse Ting-fung became an idol by smashing guitars onstage?almost a ritual for rockers in the West but a gesture of liberating anarchy in Hong Kong. A handsome guy whose mood could swing from brooding to furious in a heartbeat, Tse, 22, is the top pop star of his generation, and an actor whose promise every top director has hailed. He notched a score of hit CDs and more than a few famous lady friends, including Mainland mega-diva Faye Wong and Canto...
...years I had nothing but crap thrown at me"?he skyrocketed as a new Prince of Canto-pop. This year he won a World Music Award as China's top-selling artist. And a poll of 1,343 Mainland students found him to be the fourth highest-ranking "idol," after Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Bill Gates. (Hmmm: diplomat, oarsman, entrepreneur, rock star; prc kids have a nice sense of variety...