AI Results Show – 4 Go Home – 02/28/08

Morning Everyone:

Well it was quite an emotional night again for these kids.

Ryan said that over 31M votes were cast.  Let’s hope America got it right.

Randy said the reason they had these kids sing the songs of ‘yesteryear’ is that they know all the new songs but wanted them to ‘workout’ the older songs which, a lot of times, were better than the new ones nowadays.

The Top 20 sang a bunch of 70s songs and, once again, were terrific.  The guys really blended their voices like a choir a few times.

OK, let’s get started and send one of the Guys home:

Ryan goes to the top row, has the 5 guys stand up and tlls Mike, Chikezie and Jason Castro to sit down.  Jason Yeager and Danny Noriega were left standing.  I thought Danny was going to have a heart attack!  Funny, I had both on the bottom of my list; now one of them is about to be saved.  It is Danny which means that Jason Yeager will go home tonight.

Ya know, one thing I don’t get…and they’ve been doing this all along..is that when the person has been sent home, they ask him/her to sing the song that got them sent home….again!  Makes NO SENSE to me.  Who wants to hear a crappy version of a song again????

I think Danny was saved because he’s only 17 and must have a young fanbase of girls to vote for him.  (we know how long we had to put up with Sanjaya last year until America FINALLY got it right).

The Ladies are up now:

Once again, Ryan asks the back row to stand.  Brooke, Asia h and Kristy are asked to sit down which leaves Amanda and Alexandrea standing.  Once again…my bottom picks so one is saved; one goes home.  In this case it is Amanda who is saved for another week.  One could only hope that she gets a dye job and dresses casual next week with just a little makeup.  Alexandrea (be sure you say her name CORRECTLY!) is going Bye Bye.  -  What is with David Archuleta balling his eyes out????  Once again people, competition, you will be going home eventually.  Unless they were buddies, I can’t see this.  The Girls seem to be holding it a little bit better this week with the exception of Ramiele who is ALWAYS crying.

OK, let’s go back to the Girls:  (interesting that they chose this way)

Front Row stand up:  Carly, Ramiele and Syesha can sit down.  This leaves Alaina and Kady Malloy (oh no…not Kady.  this kid has so much potential!).  Luckily America said Bye Bye to Alaina (17 yrs.) tonight.  Oh boy, the kid is having a massive melt down right in front of our eyes.  Ryan and Paula did a great job in calming her down and then the girls came out to give her support while she sang….that was interesting.

One More Guy to go:  (it better NOT be Luke Menard)

Ryan asks the front row to stand:  David Hernandez, David Cook and David Archuleta were all asked to sit down…oh boy, this left Robbie Callucio and LUKE!!!!  My heart is pounding.  I keep saying Robbie’s name over and over and over.  YES, it is Robbie and Luke is saved.  I’ll be voting many, many times next week.  So Robbie says his BYE BYEs and sings his song and takes his ‘would be rocker’ and fake hair (which may have helped him with backup for Britney but did nothing for him here!!!).

home.

Cat Deeley from So You Think You Can Dance is in the audience.

April 9th is the Give Back segment this year.

March 12th the group will be singing songs from the McCartney/Lennon songbook which should be terrific….loved the Beatles!

Rueben Studdard will be singing on March 12th too.

So it’s Goodbye until next week when, I assume, the group will be singing songs of the 80s.

(Is Simon text messaging while Ryan is signing off for the night?  Just wondering!).

Joanie

Weekend To Do – News/Rumors 02-29-08

Goodaye Everyone:

What’s new for the weekend?  Let’s see:

Out on DVD

The Daryeeling Ltd. (brothers fighting and then bonding)

30 Days of Night (thriller/scary)

Beowulf (Dir. Cut – Angie Jolie..need I say more?!)

Gone, Baby, Gone (directed by Boston’s own Ben Affleck – Jimmy Kimmel’s new BFF!!!)

In Theaters:

The Other Boleyn Girl (I’m going to try and see it this weekend)

Semi-Pro (Will Ferrell probably funny as evahhh!!!!)

Penelope (Christini Ricci, Reese Witherspoon and James hunky McEvoy)

NEWS

Looks like Josh Duhamel will have a lot more time on his hands to plan for his wedding to Fergie…cause LAS VEGAS has been cancelled.  Maybe Vanessa Marcil will come back to GH…one could only dream!

LOST will move to a new time slot on April 24th – 10PM – Channel 5.

USA ordered a new season of MONK.  It will be the 7th and final one.  The USA network will use MONK as an ‘anchor’ for the Summer Schedule which will include (starting in May) Psych, The Starter Wife, Burn Notice (whoopie) and newcomer, In Plain Sight.

FOX has decided to ‘overhaul’ it’s Spring lineup.  New episodes of Bones, House, Back To You, Til Death will be back with new episodes in April.

To make room for this lineup, newcomer Canterbury’s Law (Rescue Me writers, prods. etc.) will premiere on Monday, March 10th at 8PM leading into New Amsterdam (finally) at 9PM.  Law will close its run on April 14 which is when new episodes of Bones, House, etc. will begin.

“24″ will NOT return until next January, 2009!

FX:  Dirt returns this Sunday, March 2nd at 10PM…..watch it!

CBS has picked up 3 Drama Pilots for next Season:

1.  NY-LON This drama is based on a 6 episode UK series and centers on a man and woman who attempt an extremely long distance romance after a chance meeting in London.  (Rashida Jones starred in the UK version)

2.  MYTHOLOGICAL X  This drama revolves around a woman who discovers – via a psychic – that she has already dated the man she was destined to marry.  So she emarks on a mission to find “the one” by revisiting all of her old relationships.

3.  Can Openers (Rescue me – writers/prods.) Centers on a woman in her 20s as she enters in a seven year neurosurgical residency.

ABC:  Gary Cole has joined the cast of Desperate Housewives and will play the ex of Katherine Mayfairs (Dana Delaney).  He will first be seen on the April 20th episode and will stay for quite a while.  Gary was the star of two of my favorite shows of years ago: AMERICAN GOTHIC and MIDNIGHT CALLER!

DANCING WITH THE STARS

Just thought I’d give you a ‘heads up’ on who is paired with who before the show starts on the 17th.

1.  Adam Carolla will dance with Julianne Hough – talk about lucking out Adam.  This gal has won two times in a row and is ‘hot’ and oh so talented!

2.  Cristian de la Fuenta will dance with Cheryl Burke – Cristian has also lucked out as Cheryl has won twice too!

3.  Shannon Elizabeth will dance with Derek Hough – He is Julianne’s bro and is adorable not to mention a terrific dancer (must be in the genes!)

4. Steve Guttenberg (yuck!) will dance with Anna Trebunskaya.  Nothing to say….

5.  Mario will dance with Karina Smirnoff – Mario Lopez’s BFF.  Remember when they hooked up on the show?  Came in a VERY close 2nd!!!

6.  Marlee Matlin will dance with Fabian Sanchez.  He is new to me.  Don’t think he’s been on before.

7.  Penn Jillette will dance with Kym Johnson.  I think she left early last year…could be another early exit this season!

8.  Priscilla Presley will dance with Louis van Amstel.  Smooth, wonderful Louis who is sooo sweet and kind to the ladies.  Priscilla will have a great time with Louis.

9.  Monica Seles will dance with Jonathan Roberts.  He danced with Marie Osmond last season and brought her quite a ways into the competition.

10.  Jason Taylor will dance with Edyta Sliwinka – Is this guy hot or what?  He plays for the Miami Dolphins.  I hope he sticks around for a while!

11.  Marissa Jaret Winokur will dance with Tony Dovolani – Marissa played Tracy Tumblad in the stage production of Hairspray (wouldn’t it be fun if John Travolta showed up during the season?) – Tony, he is so smooth and wonderful.  I saw him last night on PBS dancing up a storm to the Cha Cha.

12.  Kristi Yamaguchi will dance with Mark Ballas.  Kristi is the fave to win even before the show starts!  Mark met his girlfriend on the show last year.

Hope everyone has a great weekend and I’ll talk to you next week.

Joanie