Word: idol
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...Zaccagnino, one by the jazz group Modern Music Collective, one by Jamie B. Fordyce ’05—an acoustic guitar player who plays mostly instrumentals—and one track by Amy M. Zelcer ’07 (jazz vocalist and winner of the 2004 Harvard Idol competition...
...film centers on an idealistic Chinese antidrug cop (Vicky Zhao Wei) in Yunnan province who becomes emotionally entangled with a handsome stranger (Hong Kong's Nicholas Tse, with sideburns at proper idol-length). Tse turns out to be a drug smuggler, and because carnally cavorting with convicted criminals is a no-no in the Public Security Bureau, Goddess abruptly switches gears to an '80s cop-revenge drama, complete with shootouts and children in peril. All that's missing is Mel Gibson and Danny Glover engaging in witty repartee and senseless violence...
More proof that the people who made America were smarter than the people who made American Idol: the Founding Fathers had the foresight to create institutions to keep voters in check. Reality-TV connoisseurs were abuzz last week when the show's dial-in audience voted to boot JENNIFER HUDSON, a looker with a great voice, over candidates much less favored by the judges. Two other black singers wound up in the bottom three, and theories for the upset ran the gamut from racism to a power outage in the Midwest, Hudson's home. (Our theory: blame Florida.) After...
...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...
...manage. Walk down the street with Katie Couric and you'll see a woman under constant siege. Fans consider her a friend, and for each she stops to talk, answer questions, ask more of her own--long after you or I would have run away screaming. For an American Idol culture, Couric offers another lesson: how to be a celebrity. --By Richard Zoglin