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Critics deride the Eurovision Song Contest as a cultural Chernobyl, an ostentatious talent show in which gaudiness and sex appeal have more currency than musical ability. During the May 16 final, watched by more than 100 million people worldwide, contestants once again called upon their decidedly nonmusical charms: the Greek entry ripped his shirt to expose a waxed chest, while the Albanian entry wore a pink tutu and stood on a wind machine. But in the end, Alexander Rybak, a boyish fiddle player from Norway, stormed to victory because he had the best song - and he didn't even have...
...then there is Boyle, the youngest of nine children, deprived of oxygen at birth, bullied in school, living what seemed an airless life with her cat, Pebbles. When she auditioned for a TV talent show in 1995--in the age of arrogance and affluence--she was scorned. So she sang karaoke at the pub and cared for her ailing mother until the day she died. "Mum was my life," Boyle said. "She was the one who said I should enter Britain's Got Talent. We used to watch it together. She thought I would win." Boyle arrived center stage, with...
...need of talent - and believing popular kids will help recruitment - he plunders the football team for Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith), a quarterback with a secret penchant for singing in the shower. Will pairs him with his female lead, Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), a diminutive, driven diva who's the musical equivalent of Election's high school politician Tracy Flick. Upset that her glee mates are not taking their music seriously enough, she lectures them: "There is nothing ironic about show choir...
Idol is a reliable source of platinum talent largely because the talents it produces--Kelly Clarkson, Chris Daughtry, Carrie Underwood--respect the conventions of its genres. They are nice singers who sing nice songs nicely. Lambert, 27, may have the best chops of the bunch (his ability to hold high notes recalls Grace Slick in her prime), but where he really outshines them is in self-awareness. While his peers act as if being plucked from obscurity to sing in prime time is normal, he understands that he's on a television show, where acting normally would be completely abnormal...
...Brooks recognized his comedic talent and rewarded Dom DeLuise, 75, with roles in several Brooks movies, including Blazing Saddles and History of the World, Part I. The burly actor and chef also often appeared alongside Burt Reynolds in films like The Cannonball...