Idol Headlines For 6/30/08

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Brooke White, Jason Castro bring their down-to-earth sparkle to town for ‘Idol’ tour

Season 7 of “American Idol” came down to The Battle of the Two Davids, but it also offered engaging personalities in Brooke White and Jason Castro.

White, 25, was the sunny, chatty, vulnerable one from Van Nuys. The one-time nanny could flash a smile as bright as Goldie Hawn’s and, with her flowing gold locks, carried the aura of a ’60s flower child. She also wore her emotions on her sleeve, sometimes looking nervous and teary-eyed before the judge’s pronouncements. No other finalist this year lived so much on the edge.

Castro, 21, was a construction science major at Texas A&M University. He cast a mellow, goofy demeanor (and, hey, he himself says he is kind of goofy) with his long dreadlocks and looks of a young John Travolta. And the young female fans swarmed as if he were a young John Travolta. He could appear befuddled or delightfully self-aware. You had to chuckle when, asked the biggest obstacle to overcome this season, Castro said: “The brain being dead.”

Fresno Bee

‘Idol’ Finalist Coming To Help Local Charities

“American Idol” finalist and former Shawnee resident Phil Stacey will perform a free benefit concert for two local charities on July 6.

“I feel my job as a singer is part of my job as a human being. I’m supposed to be touching other people’s lives, doing the best I can to be a positive force in the world,” Stacey said.

Stacey grew up in an atmosphere of faith, family, and music. His grandfathers, father, and father-in-law dedicated their lives to the ministry. His father played the trumpet and keyboard professionally. His mother encouraged him to sing in church.

Shawnee Sun

Chelsea Trail Talks About So You Think You Can Dance Elimination

So You Think You Can Dance 4. In a conference call with media, Chelsea talked about her experience on the show and revealed the details behind why her dance partner joked that she was a flower thief.

When asked to explain stealing flowers, Chelsea Traille said, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Well, Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m Jamaican and I just love beautiful flowers and it kind of just started. Basically it was kind of a joke. But I love having fresh flowers and like being away from home, the apartment just was kind of dull. So, one day we all went on a walk to the grocery store and we passed all these beautiful flowers and I said, letà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s take some flowers.

Reality TV Magazine

Eliminated So You Think Can Dance Finalist Chris Jarosz Talks About Judges Going Crazy

Chris Jarosz recently became the third male dancer eliminated from So You Think You Can Dance 4. In a conference call with media after his elimination, Chris discussed how he was hoping to see Mary Murphy go crazy in a good way and how he thought it was funny when Nigel Lythgoe went crazy and turned into the Hulk.

When asked if any aspects of the So You Think You Can Dance competition caught him off guard, Chris Jarosz said, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think I was ever ready for all the cameras, like all the interviewing and stuff like that. There wasnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t too much of a surprise. I think some of the judging might have been a little bit of a surprise.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 

Reality TV Magazine

Some of my favorite So You Think You Can Dance routines

At first, I was a little disappointed with this season’s So You Think You Can Dance. I found most of the routines underwhelming. Furthermore, Mary and Nigel constantly telling us that it’s the “best dancers they’ve ever had” and the most “competition they’ve ever seen” is a red flag. I think most viewers, those with dance training and without, know what they like and why they like it. And viewers don’t like being told they should like something.

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  • t2

    Glad to see there’s news about Phil still circulating. His CD is good and I wish it was getting more radio play.

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=84731174 purplesmile

    Charm’s cool
    Brooke White, Jason Castro bring their down-to-earth sparkle to town for ‘Idol’ tour.

    Season 7 of “American Idol” came down to The Battle of the Two Davids, but it also offered engaging personalities in Brooke White and Jason Castro.

    White, 25, was the sunny, chatty, vulnerable one from Van Nuys. The one-time nanny could flash a smile as bright as Goldie Hawn’s and, with her flowing gold locks, carried the aura of a ’60s flower child. She also wore her emotions on her sleeve, sometimes looking nervous and teary-eyed before the judge’s pronouncements. No other finalist this year lived so much on the edge.

    Castro, 21, was a construction science major at Texas A&M University. He cast a mellow, goofy demeanor (and, hey, he himself says he is kind of goofy) with his long dreadlocks and looks of a young John Travolta. And the young female fans swarmed as if he were a young John Travolta. He could appear befuddled or delightfully self-aware. You had to chuckle when, asked the biggest obstacle to overcome this season, Castro said: “The brain being dead…”

  • http://myspace.com/girlgeek mj

    Thanks purple, I posted that out front.

  • jdanton2

    Jordin and Blake were at this event Saturday June 28th . This review from a Blogger that was there .

    http://blogs.pitch.com/wayward/2008/06/concert_review_red_white_boom.php

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=84731174 purplesmile

    Thanks purple, I posted that out front.

    Sure, mj. :)

  • http://www.dancin.ca dancin

    thanks jdanton great review again *wtg jordin* :)

    ty mj for all the news stories i enjoy comin here for the idol/nashville/cdnidol/sytycd reviews and news

  • sciencefan

    I liked the Fresno Bee article.
    I didn’t realize there was an interview.
    At first, I thought it was just some blog comments.

  • http://myspace.com/girlgeek mj

    Here is an interview from Michael Johns, it was posted in another thread, but it really belongs here:

    Comcast.net

    What can you tell us about what fans can expect from the show?
    Basically, youà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢re getting mini-concerts all in one. So youà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢re just seeing Jason Castro, or Michael Johns, or Carly (Smithson) by themselves on stage, like, with no one else. Weà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll be doing three or four songs each, and obviously doing some medleys and stuff like that.

    After going through rehearsals, is there any one singerà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s set youà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢re looking forward to?
    Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m really thoroughly impressed with Kristy Lee Cookà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s set, actually. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s like sheà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s way more comfortable doing this than she was on the show. Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m not the biggest country fan in the world, but sheà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s bringing it. Then thereà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Jason Castro and Brooke White. Thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s whatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s cool about it is you go from R&B to country to rock.

  • dfc

    Sorry, MJ. Didn’t mean to post it in the wrong place.

  • klp

    Looks like the positive “Grease” publicity may have affected sales of Taylor’s book.
    06/30/08 -
    One of the Internet’s top online book stores, Best Book Publish is offering a strong selection of works by celebrity authors. Some current celebrity books that are hot sellers include “Heart Full of Soul” by American Idol Taylor Hicks; “Golf Monster” by rock legend Alice Cooper; Barbara Walters’ “Audition”; and Eric Clapton’s autobiography “Clapton.”

    http://www.emediawire.com/releases/…rweb1062654.htm

  • skylight1219

    That’s wonderful news for Taylor. Thanks for posting.

  • http://myspace.com/girlgeek mj

    Sorry, MJ. Didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t mean to post it in the wrong place.

    Thanks for posting it, I missed that one.

  • Colleen

    Win a pair of AZ AI tour backstage passes today!

    http://www.movin975.com/Article.asp?id=769914&spid=12750

    Local AZ radio station, MOVIN 97.5 is giving away one pair of backstage passes to one lucky AI superfan today.
    The above link details the radio remote event tonight at 5:30 PM (Mountain Time Zone) before the AZ Diamondbacks baseball game. It is located in Tempe (Near ASU) on the outside stage at Tempe Marketplace.

    The winner of this AI trivia contest, gets a Super cool pair of Backstage passes for the AI concert tomorrow night.

    If you are able to attend this radio remote and lucky enough to win this awesome prize, your good buddy Colleen will be more than happy to accompany you backstage tomorrow night to share this experience! :clap_tb:

  • TylerWV

    For bucky covington fans, buy this month’s People magazine with Tim Russert pic on the cover. It has this year’s hottest bachelors in it and Bucky is one of only 3 country singers to make the list. It specifically talks about his blonde hair. WTG bucky!

  • AInoob

    TMZ caught David and Kim coming out of a restaurant. Cookie was polite but he looked irritated, Kim was a good sport and laughing at the stupid question that the pap asked. It was posted up today – I thought David and all the others were in AZ already?

  • brie200

    David is definitely in AZ, unless he has a twin. He was spotted at the venue last night with the rest of the Idols (tons of pics are floating around) and as per Archie’s blog he was part of the group that went out go karting last night. Yes, the Idols went go karting. Minus Brooke, Rami and MJ.

  • sherryw

    Not really headline related but didn’t know where else to ask: What happened to today’s Mediabase report?

  • sumidol

    From Jasons myspace today – awww he took the time to do this:

    hey guys!

    Body: thanks for the concern/ help with the bad noise on the page…. i think thats happened a few times but ive yet to hear it.

    anyways thanks for having my back!

    im at rehearsals, almost done a full show run thru, then were having dinner and then our first FULL DRESS REHEARSAL!!! woo hooo! im getting wayyy too excited….i dont know what to expect tomorrow… aaahhhh!!!!!

  • http://www.xanga.com/hisaki_chan707 Hisaki

    So I don’t know where else to put this…sorry in advance.

    I’ve basically been going hysterical over the last half hour (it’s a miracle I can still type correctly without just downright keysmashing every couple of words) and stalking IDF and TWoP for SYTYCD spoilers. Apparently the ONE person who went to the taping today didn’t say anything about coming back to relay any spoilers for anyone, but so far there’s been one piece of good news coming out from all my stalking: (per TWoP) OneRepublic is performing their new single, Say (All I Need) on Thursday night for the results show. Yay. :D

  • barefootgirl

    re: Fresno Bee interview. Brooke’s responses are at least twice the length of Jason’s answers to the same questions. That’s so Brooke. And so Jason.

  • Trina

    TMZ caught David and Kim coming out of a restaurant. Cookie was polite but he looked irritated, Kim was a good sport and laughing at the stupid question that the pap asked. It was posted up today – I thought David and all the others were in AZ already?

    TMA may have got the footage at an earlier date and decided to hold off on posting for whatever reason. they’ve done that before.

    Holy cow those two look great togeter. I think that dress Kim is wearing was Cookie’s bon voyage present. Yowsa!

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=84731174 purplesmile

    Another (nasty) TMZ video, this time of the other David (Hernandez)…

    Ex Stripper David Hernandez Video: American Idol Reject Sings Karaoke

  • BigNLiddle

    A Lucky Girl got to meet the Idols tonight in AZ :) Sounds like they’re all excited for the tour!

    http://www.david-cook.org/ROUND-3-3RD-TIME-REALLY-IS-A-CHARM-i-met-them-t8851.html

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=84731174 purplesmile

    Here is a nice (except they’re still whining about the boys’ popularity this season, lol) pre-tour interview with the Top 10 girls. There is a video, too (where Syesha makes her feelings known about the choice of Happy Feet for her final 3 performance, haha!).

    ‘American Idol’ tour kicks off

  • AInoob

    Thanks for that link, purplesmile. Like Brooke, I always wondered if Carly was pissed that she got sent home instead of Brooke that week that she messed up the lyrics.

  • Grammie Kari

    Glad to hear Jason is so psyched over the dress rehearsal. I just hope the girls don’t scream so loud that you can’t hear his singing. Even worse is if these girls are in front, behind, or next to you!

  • Grammie Kari

    Thank you for the link! I do appreciate it, Purple.