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...adds. "It's a quick and easy way to get people's attention, but it's becoming somewhat redundant. You need to use a celebrity very cleverly, or people are going to tune out. People don't hold these icons in such high regard anymore. Whoever's on American Idol or the MySpace.com kid next door, that's who's famous these days...
...Rick Warren, whose book The Purpose Driven Life has outsold Osteen's by a ratio of 7 to 1, finds the very basis of Prosperity laughable. "This idea that God wants everybody to be wealthy?", he snorts. "There is a word for that: baloney. It's creating a false idol. You don't measure your self-worth by your net worth. I can show you millions of faithful followers of Christ who live in poverty. Why isn't everyone in the church a millionaire...
...sing "Part of Your World" from the movie The Little Mermaid, but she didn't have a karaoke version and Ms. Bruner's tape of the song was too fast and, well, don't ask - Olivia has finally perfected her performance for the annual after-school talent show, "Frenchtown Idol." And "Awesome God" sounds great...
...THERE AN AMERICAN IDOL CURSE...
...wasn't bad enough losing to a guy who belongs in a Celebrex ad, American Idol's KATHARINE MCPHEE has fallen victim to the curse of the Idol runner-up--a bum foot. The show's 2004 No. 2 Diana DeGarmo slipped down a flight of stage stairs, tearing a ligament. Last year Bo Bice broke his foot during some rigorous onstage bouncing. And now McPhee has tripped backstage, fracturing her left foot. All of which makes us wonder what those singers need more: to prove Simon Cowell and America wrong or to wear slightly more sensible shoes...