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...going until March, in which the show hypes up its 12 finalists, the better to have a marketable product after one of them becomes champion. So why do the worst singers draw higher ratings than the best? You can thank in part microcelebrity William Hung, who tortured Ricky Martin's She Bangs during the third-season auditions and ended up with a record deal. But more than that, American Idol is the TV show that best understands America's schizophrenic twin desire to celebrate underdogs--and to destroy them...
Ford's design team is stacked with talent and has only got stronger lately. Two highly regarded Brits, Peter Horbury and Martin Smith, are in charge of design for Ford's North American and European divisions, and last year Ford lured a hot hand from Chrysler, Freeman Thomas. At Chrysler, he sketched the initial concept for the 300 sedan, one of Chrysler's biggest hits in a decade. At Ford, Thomas has already won praise for a concept car, the Reflex, featuring solar panels, butterfly doors and internal insulation made of recycled Nike shoes. "Bill [Ford] has come...
Kuumba singers marched down the aisles of Memorial Church on Monday, soulfully greeting the multicultural audience gathered for a commemoration of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Unlike in years past, leaders of seven different religious and ethnic campus groups were invited to speak about the meaning of Martin Luther King Day in the context of their own cultural concerns. “The idea is to involve a portion of the Harvard community that in the past has not been involved,” said Om L. Lala ’06, the chair of the Harvard College...
...Queen Trumped King. Before the crowd could get too philosophical about the event falling on Martin Luther King Day, opening presenter Queen Latifah reminded them what the night was really all about-money-when she touted her new movie, Last Holiday, and its weekend box office receipts. Always nice to have somebody help you keep it in perspective...
...Masterpiece Theatre coproduction captures the novel's satire, melodrama and horror-movie suspense without undercutting any of those disparate tones. Gillian Anderson is haunting as Lady Dedlock, a claimant tormented by the mystery of a long-lost lover. But the emotional heart of the story is Esther (Anna Maxwell Martin), the sensible orphan caught up in the suit. This is law drama such as Boston Legal's David E. Kelley can only dream about...