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'Idol' winners aren't singing all the way to the bank
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'Idol' winners aren't singing all the way to the bank
By RODNEY HO Cox News Service
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Los Angeles -- "American Idol" is a monstrous moneymaker -- for
creator Simon Fuller, for the judges, for Fox, for virtually anyone
who touches it.
Except, perhaps, for the once-unknown singers plucked from places
such as Snellville, Ga., or High Point, N.C., and thrust into
millions of households each week.
"Idol" producer 19 Entertainment won't talk a...
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'American Idol' again celebrates good, horrible: Fame, infamy waiting for both fortunate, unlucky
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; NEW YORK - Simon Cowell couldn't believe his ears. You'd think he'd be used to it by now. But the acerbic "American Idol" judge was railing again about the tone-deaf auditioners he, along with Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, is forced to endure. "People turn up who can't sing a note in tune," Cowell
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September 11: 'American Idol' Seizes the Day
The Washington Post
; ... much TV exposure the winner could expect at the Lincoln Memorial that day. That's because he's saving that information for a big news conference his organization has scheduled for tomorrow at the National Press Club to announce which lucky networks will get to ...
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'American Idol' is now on Q!(Entertainment)
Manila Bulletin
; Byline: Walden Sadiri Who will be the next American Idol? Once again the world is posed with this question as the prestigious star search American Idol returns for its seventh season not only on US television but to its worldwide viewers via their respective carriers. All eyes will again be on the
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American idol is killing the competition.(Daily Break)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: LARRY BONKO BY larry bonko THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT THE COMPETITION tried but failed to check the prime-time steamroller that is American Idol, which begins its sixth season at 8 tonight on Fox. Since Pop Idol was imported from the United Kingdom in the summer of 2002 and re-christened American
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Why 'American Idol' really clicks.(Entertainment)
Manila Bulletin
; ... show and wouldnt want to miss it for anything. At parties and press gatherings, the conversation would always touch on showbiz news and whos going to be eliminated in American Idol. But why does American Idol click? To my humble opinion, its not only about ...
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Pitchy perfect: lessons from American Idol.(culturevulture)
Sarasota Magazine
; Like most of us, my opinion of American Idol fluctuates wildly. Sometimes it's a guilty pleasure, sometimes a waste of time. Many of my more sophisticated friends consider it the nadir of pop culture and a textbook example of what's wrong with America--celebrity worship, instant fame, a bill of
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Beauty Turn for 'American Idol'.(Flying Colors is introducing products based on the television series)
WWD
; Byline: Faye Brookman NEW YORK - Now even beauty is going for reality. JAKKS Pacific's Flying Colors, the craft division of toy giant JAKKS Pacific, is introducing fashion and beauty items based on the Fox smash American Idol. Now in its second season, American Idol's premiere was watched by an
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Window on reality: American Idol and the search for identity. (Television).
The American Prospect
; ... the postmillennial United States is changing with regard to race, class, national identity and politics. As its affiliate Fox News was cheering on the Iraq War, the FOX network's American Idol--one of the top-rated TV shows of the period leading up to, during ...
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An 'Idol' moment 'American Idol' finalists bring their concert tour to the Save Mart Center.(Weekend)
The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA)
; Byline: Rick Bentley THE FRESNO BEE Fantasia Barrino describes her days on American Idol 3 as living in a bubble. Barrino and the other musical contenders on the Fox reality show did not have much contact with the outside world during the months the show aired. Most of their time was spent trying
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UNCOVERING THE TRUE 'AMERICAN IDOL'.(End Page)(an evaluation of 'American Idol')(Column)
TelevisionWeek
; Byline: Tom Shales If you watch American Idol with the sound off, which is probably the best way to watch it, you will see what looks like reaction shots from a horror movie. In close-up, young women and men have their eyes tightly closed and their mouths open wide in what looks like a pained,
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