Month: May 2006

Saturday Night Live Kevin Spacey hosted SNL last night and he parodied American Idol in his opening monologue.  You can watch it (sorry no longer available…).  Reality TV Magazine has a recap.  The skit spoofed the typical 90 second AI performance.  Spacey

Update It’s official.  Live will perform on the American Idol finale this Wednesday.  From the Fans of Live Website:  Thanks Carla… “Live will be performing their new US single, “Mystery”, on the American Idol season

Finale News Here’s what we know so far: Taylor Hicks won the “coin toss” Wednesday night.  He’s decided to go second.  Every winner, except for Season 2’s Ruben Studdard has had the “pimp” spot. Each of

Katharine McPhee and Taylor Hicks Top 2 Conference interview. thanks xocyxs and folks who posted in comments Katharine McPhee and Taylor Hicks took part in separate press conferences today.  Here’s what they had to say according to USAToday. I’m

Elliott Yamin’s interview from MTV.com About his emotional boot, “I’m emotional anyways; it kind of runs in my family’s blood. And maybe because I’m an underdog. I was the kid who came from nowhere. They know

Bits and Pieces The Real World Politics of American Idol More  about how American Idol is very much like a political campaign.  In the article, pundits compare Taylor Hicks to Bill Clinton and Chris Daughtry to

Top 3 Results – Recap Goodbye Elliott Tonight’s show stretched into an hour.  Videos from the contestants home town visits are featured and they each perform  their cut from the American Idols Season 5 Encores CD. Ace Young and Kellie

Top 3 Results Eliminated Tonight – Elliott Yamin Talk amongst yourselves… But play nice!  I’ll be back with a re-cap.

Nigel Lythgoe’s Weekly Interview with TVweek.com Nigel recaps last night’s performances: Elliott – “Open Arms”, “I thought it was ok…for me to be quite frank with you, I’m not a huge lover of the song.

Final 3 – The Recap Clive’s Choice Watching Clive’s video package, it’s hard not to be awed by his starmaking ability.  He started and restarted the careers of many great ones–Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Patti