Word: talentless
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PEOPLE: A talentless Miss America contest; why Clinton's My Life is wacky in translation; a real-life fatal attraction...
...American Idol. Created by Mike Fleiss (The Bachelor), Superstar USA duplicates Idol's format, down to the three-judge panel--this one includes rapper Tone-Loc, has-been pop star Vitamin C and snappish TV producer Chris Briggs--but judges kick the able singers off while promoting the earnestly talentless, off-key William Hung types. None of the contestants are clued in to the hoax until the end. "What's extraordinary is to see people who are convinced that they're going to be the next pop star go up there and just stink up the joint," says Fleiss...
...theoretically possible (each is, after all, a triple threat in her own right—singer, dancer and actress). No such alternate explanations exist for the fame of my latest blonde obsession, hotel heiress Paris Hilton. She is so devoid of talent that she inspired equally talentless B-list comedian Jeffrey Ross to announce at Carson Daly’s Roast how proud he was to be on a stage “in front of all these extremely talented people—and the Hilton sisters...
...enough to make some people move: they still buy toilet paper and pull giant worms off each other. Other contributors (there are over 25) only tangentially refer to space. Mark Burriur's "Piano Music" tells of a lonely piano teacher and the painting of outer space that distracts a talentless student. With an excellent variety of stories that go from cute to existential, editor and designer Chris Pitzer has put together one of the best-looking and best reading anthologies of the year. Printed in black and white and silver, the aesthetics of "Project: Telstar" ingeniously tie the stories together...
...player with the hottest girl in town. Maybe you’re not the nicest guy in the world but, hey, you’re a big-shot basketball player with the hottest girl in town; people should cut you some slack. Now along comes this once-humble and talentless Alex P. Keaton lookalike who is turning himself into a werewolf all over the place. To make matters worse, he is using his remarkable werewolf speed, strength and agility to become the most astonishing basketball player in town. Then, benefiting from his illegitimate basketball success and his gimmicky werewolf persona...