Word: proms
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Twenty-eight million people watched Kelly Clarkson win the first installment of American Idol in 2002. While "28 million" and "winner" are positives in the context of reality television, singing the swollen talent-show ballad A Moment Like This in a prom dress with mascara cascading down your face is not the kind of thing that endears you to cool-conscious pop-music fans. Just in case Clarkson's victory tableau didn't create enough skeptics about her chances for a successful recording career, she followed it up with From Justin to Kelly, a monstrous Idol movie musical that...
...woman bob driver, former brakeman Shauna Rohbock. Last season she dropped a partner she couldn't stomach. "You're winning, and then you're like, 'I don't want her to do well.' But she was on the sled." How inconvenient. Drivers swap brakemen like prom dates; soap opera surrounds the U.S. women's team like a Lake Placid cold front. Before the 2002 Olympics, driver Jill Bakken, the eventual gold-medal winner, jilted Rohbock, her partner of three years, for Vonetta Flowers. Jean Prahm dumped her best friend, Jen Davidson, for Gea Johnson. Now Prahm has picked Flowers...
Drivers swap brakemen like prom dates; soap opera surrounds the U.S. women's team like a Lake Placid cold front. Before the 2002 Olympics, driver Jill Bakken, the eventual gold-medal winner, jilted Rohbock, her partner of three years, for Vonetta Flowers. Jean Prahm dumped her best friend, Jen Davidson, for Gea Johnson. Now Prahm has picked Flowers, and after switching to the driver position, Rohbock is teamed with roommate Valerie Fleming. Bakken was back after a two-year hiatus but lost to Rohbock for one of two driver spots on the Olympic team. Got it? "There's so much...
...show's popularity. "What started as a simple talent quest has become a national phenomenon," he said over video of seas of teen and twentysomething applicants thronging stadiums and audition halls like pilgrims on the hajj. "It's become a modern rite of passage, like going to the prom. You get your first car, you graduate from high school, and when we roll into your town, you audition for American Idol...
This summer, the show shipped Johnson and 16 other college co-eds—a batch that included southern belles and farm girls, prom queens, and sorority sisters—to a New York City apartment. There, they shared living space while competing for a “Seventeen” cover shoot, an internship, and—oh yeah—a college scholarship...