Word: idols
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...somehow perfect that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich would begin his media self-justification-and-jury-pool-influence tour at the same time that American Idol has returned to TV. Like the bad auditioners who spring anew from city and heartland every winter, Blago inspires the same questions every time he opens his mouth: Does he really have no idea how he sounds to other people? It's gotta be an act, right...
...with an Idol auditioner, it is impossible to know. But the man who did more than a dozen TV interviews--saying he was doing it for his kids, for our kids, for the needy, for justice--seemed to mean it. On Good Morning America, he admitted having considered Oprah Winfrey for the Illinois Senate seat. On Today, he likened himself to a Frank Capra hero and said his arrest was like those of Mandela, M.L.K. and Gandhi. On The View, he said the Mandela-M.L.K.-Gandhi comparison had been taken "out of context," as had his recorded...
...context"--Blago repeated the phrases like Hail Marys on a rosary. Of course, he was not at liberty to give the context. But like a flailing Idol candidate, he insisted he couldn't be judged by his lines. His throat was dry! The judges hated him! If only he could start over, sing it all--the whole song!--Americans would see why he was their Idol...
...around, there's a sense of pop culture trying to feel its way toward the next thing, the new tone, whatever it might be. On 24, Jack Bauer is getting philosophical about torture. American Idol is trying to be nicer to its bad singers. Even Clint Eastwood's hit Gran Torino--in which a racist retiree snarls at Asian gang bangers to "get off my lawn" as he protects a young Hmong neighbor--is ultimately not the reactionary return of Dirty Harry but the 20th century grouchily giving way to the 21st...
Teen American Idol also-ran SANJAYA to release memoir...