Word: idol
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...long have you been offering entertainment odds? It goes way back. I've been doing the Oscars for 15 years, and started offering odds on reality television shows with the first Survivor back in 2000. Now I do American Idol and Dancing With the Stars. I also give odds for the Westminster Kennel Club dog show and the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest. A few years ago, I even hung odds on who was the Carver in that F/X show Nip/Tuck. That...
...self and others), but there are a few scenes where she cuts loose and we get to see her Lucille Ball-style warmth and wackiness. It's a simple pleasure to watch Becky attempt to retrieve a wrongly addressed envelope before it lands in the hands of her idol, fashion-magazine editor Alette (Kristin Scott Thomas, doing the haughty Devil Wears Prada thing very, very well...
...more than the combined take of three of its Best Picture rivals, The Reader, Frost/Nixon and Milk. (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which absent Slumdog might have been the film to beat, has grossed more than $120 million.) Though set in Mumbai, Slumdog has become a new American idol. The other films may as well sign up for Biggest Losers Ever...
Despite Randy Jackson's stock American Idol critique--"A little pitchy, dawg"--many beloved songs are actually off-pitch or out of tune. There's Ringo Starr on "With a Little Help from My Friends," of course, and just about every blues song slides into notes as opposed to hitting them dead on. Even Norah Jones, the poster girl of pure vocals, isn't perfect. "There's some wonderful imperfections of pitch on 'Don't Know Why' from Come Away with Me," says Anderson, "and most of the other tunes on the album as well. But I wouldn't want...
...being confronted with how others see and hear him shook the governor, it didn't last. He ended his media tour as he began, with a salesman's smile and an Idol rejectee's confidence. We would all know his true heart someday, he assured us. All we need is to hear his words in complete context. That may never be possible, however. Not until they invent a microphone that can record what it sounds like inside Rod Blagojevich's head...