American Idol continues tonight, with more Hollywood action. I’ll live blog it here. Tonight, we’ll see the final Hollywood cuts — as foretold by the sword-wielding King of Swords. Haley Rinehart is up first. I pulled the Strength card for her — but at the moment I turned the card over, they showed red-headed Chelsee, [...]
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Tonight’s broadcast starts in just a few minutes. I’ll be live-blogging it here. The focus will be on group rounds. What can we expect to see overall? Yikes! The Nine of Swords! Okay, we know from past seasons that most of the contestants don’t get any sleep the night before their groups perform. That’s one [...]
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Here are my observations, typed live as Hollywood Week airs here in Minneapolis. I’ll update as we go, so keep clicking “refresh” for the latest insights. As I can, I’ll plug in the art from the cards, too. We start the night with Brett Loewenstern, the kid who reminds everyone of Simply Red. He gets [...]
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During tonight’s episode, we’ll find out who made the cut — the Top 24. Seven of the finalists were revealed last night. Janell Wheeler is the first to be featured in tonight’s episode. She gets the Five of Cups — the card of disappointment. She looks so much like the girl from The Princess Bride [...]
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8 pm — Tonight is Group Night on American Idol, when we find out if the would-be contestants can play well with others. 96 performers are forming groups. Most of them don’t know what they’re doing. I don’t know what I’m doing, either. It’s hard to pull cards for amorphous groups. I know! I can [...]
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Our pizza is in the oven. My Diet Coke is at the ready. I just need to shuffle my deck and we’ll be ready for the start of Hollywood Week in about 10 minutes. 7 pm — Tonight Ellen takes her place at the judge’s table. 100,000 people auditioned in 7 cities. Now 181 contestants [...]
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