"You have the heart of an arctic night. Your soul is as barren as dark space."

Said the judge.

I'm glad The Grammys...

...  weren't too much about Whitney Houston dying. It wouldn't make any sense to overshadow Adele, whose night it was, who seems lik...

"This wasn't Nikki over Tamyra bad, or certainly John Stevens and Jasmine Trias over Jennifer Hudson... bad, but..."

What can we learn about America's struggle over race through "American Idol"?

"American Idol" -- results. Nicely done!

With 6 left and 2 going down, 100 million votes are cast, and 2 white males go down. Time to be proud of America as the 3 black women surviv...

Simulblogging the Oscars!

I've got to get home first. The flight to Madison is boarding, so let me get going. Start without me! ADDED #1: Hey, I made it home. No ...

Golden Globes!

Hey, watch the Golden Globes with me! Comment away. I'll be adding to this post, with each update indicated by a number. 1. And they sta...

"Even Judy Garland's most iconic on-screen ballad performances seem small compared with..."

The critics go nuts for Jennifer Hudson in "Dreamgirls." And let me just say that I was writing about her by name the morning af...

"American Idol" -- the results.

NOTE: To read about the most recent "Amercian Idol" results show, click on the "Althouse" banner above and scroll down t...

It’s Big Band night on American Idol—just to taunt poor John Stevens.

Diana comes out in a too-tight purple nightie and pretends to be a grown woman as she sings “Someone to Watch Over Me.” She’s allowed to hol...

The vote for versus the vote against. Prof. Yin has an interesting new post on the question of whether the American Idol vote this week is...

First, a word or two about American Idol... and then I'm going to approach the reticulated Cuban iguana I was too tired to talk about l...

Quentin Tarantino, you are the geekiest film director--all right? But when you get into your geek mode--all right?--there's no one quit...

American Idol mostly drove home for me how great a singer Elton John is, as the contestants bungled or oversang his songs. It was pretty mu...

Are American Idol voters crazy? Here's Shack at Television Without Pity : I just figured that after Leah's and Matt's ejections...

Solving the Jon Peter Lewis mystery. Prof. Yin wrote : I actually kind of like Jon Peter Lewis' performance, but I don't think ther...

Jennifer Hudson's dress. I've been a big Jennifer Hudson fan since her first appearance on an audition show--February 3rd. (The to...

Oh, my dear boy made it! Love to John Stevens, who made it through tonight on American Idol. Love to Jennifer Hudson and Tiara Purifoy, wh...

More evidence for my American Idol conspiracy theory. Last night's show gives me more reason to think that the producers, faced with wa...

I don't even want to talk about last night's American Idol . I don't want to have to think about it. Each singer was worse than...

I really love she. Nicholas Fonseca at Entertainment Weekly is opining about all eight of the contestants on last night's American Idol...