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...Carrie Underwood because she knew who she was. She knew she was a country music girl. She made the right kind of record and it was the biggest debut record in Idol history. Kelly Clarkson also knew who she was and has done her thing. And from a pure talent level I also love Fantasia. Her version of "Summertime" was the best Idol performance ever. It was crazy...
...constructive criticism tend to strike a more reasoned note when the other two go over the top, which they often do. Like Simon and Paula, Randy Jackson has become a celebrity in his own right judging hundreds of warbling American Idol wannabes each week on Fox's unbeatable talent competition, which has steamrolled into its sixth season, debuting with its highest ratings ever. TIME's Jeanne McDowell talked to Jackson - the man who introduced "dawg" and "pitchy" into the lexicon - about a new Idol season, what Simon says and being a top "dawg" on primetime's biggest...
...Jackson: It started off with a bang. It's still about trying to discover the best new talent we can find. People either love the early rounds or hate them. There's no middle ground. I think the early rounds show the audience what we actually go through before we get to the finalists. We show them the good, the bad, the everything...
...English, slim and an actress," seemed miffed that Audrey got all that, and more. She rarely showed pleasure in her daughter's success. She came backstage after Audrey's Broadway triumph in "Gigi" in 1951 and said, "You've done very well, my dear, considering that you have no talent." (A few years later Ella appears briefly as a sidewalk cafe patron in "Funny Face".) Audrey's son Sean Hepburn Ferrer called his mom "a star who couldn't see her own light." Could that be because her mother's jealousy obscured the view...
...read the first three Crimson profiles of possible Harvard presidential candidates with great interest; clearly, people of the highest quality and talent are being considered for this tremendously important job. So I was surprised to see that the sub-headline of your first profile (“Provost Considered for Top Post,” 12/19) asserted that this candidate’s resume, more than any other’s, “may make him [the] most qualified candidate...