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Everybody has heroes. Everybody, some time or other, nurses a glamorous career dream. Bryant's accuser did. Last November she went to Texas and tried out (unsuccessfully) for American Idol. Her audition piece was a Rebecca Lynn Howard country ballad, Forgive. How does it go? "Well you might as well've ripped the life/Right out of me, right here tonight,/When through the fallen tears you said,/'Can you ever just forgive?'" Those lyrics might be haunting Bryant--now not so clean, not so cool--and the two women who have shared his favors and his notoriety. --Reported...
...make a lot out of small opportunities," says Hitomi Hagio, a Tokyo-based film and theater critic. That's made Shido a natural character actor. Whether dolled up in white face paint and a kimono playing a samurai's prodigal son, or hamming it up on TV alongside pop idol co-stars, he visibly savors each one of his roles. And his gift for satire, evident in HR, reflects Kabuki's origins as a way for the common folk to ridicule the ruling samurai class...
Looking for another way to keep the kids from driving you nuts on those long summer road trips? Hasbro's new VideoNow might occupy them for a while. The $50 portable gadget plays 30-min. videodiscs ($7.99 each) with excerpts from popular shows like American Idol, SpongeBob SquarePants and Jimmy Neutron. It runs on a pair of AA batteries that should last for seven hours. And if the videos get too noisy, the kids can plug in a pair of earphones. It's a nice idea, but the tiny black-and-white screen is a disappointment...
Thank you for the piece on how the TV show American Idol and the movie From Justin to Kelly prove that teenagers value genuine ability over superficial sex appeal [TELEVISION, June 23]. Although I listen to stars like Britney Spears, I have much more respect for performers like American Idol's Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken, whose talents far outshine the clothes they wear and the way their bodies look. Each has an incredible voice, and that is what makes them beautiful. Kelly doesn't need micro-minis and tube tops; Clay was still idol material with red hair...
...Hollywood devices for much of its impact. The battles are as long and relentless as in Saving Private Ryan; copious blood and gore saturate virtually every scene. Death, ubiquitous as it is, usually comes garnished with generous amounts of melodrama. And most of the heroes are endowed with idol-caliber good looks, most notably the Wild Seven's icily gorgeous sniper Saki Sakurai, played by teen siren Natsuki Kato...