American Idol | You’re Going to Hollywood! Oh No You’re Not!

American Idol aired their Santa Antonio auditions last night on Fox. Out of all the candidates, 3 stood out to me. Baylie Brown, a 16 year old beauty from a town that has more cows than people, Akron Watson, who at first bored Simon, then impressed him with his rendition of Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On and Ashlyn Carr, an 18 year old girl that reportedly was beat up at school for having a good singing voice. Ashyln did have a good voice, but the judges didn’t like the facial expressions she made. She’d kind of do this weird thing with her lip and show her gums when she’d hit some high notes. So Randy and Paula said it was too distracting and gave her the big NO. Simon however, said he would’ve given her a YES. In an AI first, the judges admitted they might have made a mistake and brought her back for another audition. After seeing her for a second time, Randy and Paula agreed to send her through to Hollywood.

But don’t start packing yet kids…tmz.com reports this morning that Akron Wilson received a call two days before he was to leave for Hollywood from AI producers informing him that he was no longer in the competition for unknown reasons. Perhaps being arrested for a misdemeanor possession of marijuana could have something to do with it? Apparently, Ashlyn Carr allegedly has an arrest under her belt as well. The 18 year old was reportedly arrested for pouring sugar into her ex-boyfriends gas tank. Tmz.com did not report as to whether or not Ashlyn was still in the competition.

So out of the three that I liked, looks like I can only count on seeing Baylie Brown compete in Hollywood.

Snickers Super Bowl Commercial Banned

So great, my favorite super bowl commercial was banned. Incase you didn’t see it…there’s these two mechanics working on a car. One of them puts a Snickers bar in his both and the other bites the other end until they meet in the middle. And smooch. So they jump back and yell aarrrghh!! Do something manly. They proceed to pull out a patch of chest hair. End of commercial.

Apparently, there were two other endings that were being shown on the Snickers website. One was where after yelling, one of them grabs the other one and puts his head into the engine compartment and starts banging the hood down on him. The other has them both reaching for and drinking motor oil. The website also showed the football team watching the commercial and there were a lot of “oh gross”, etc. type comments.

So GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Association Against Defamation) is pissed. They feel that the ads don’t represent the gay community in a positive light. Blah, blah!

The commercial was funny. I didn’t see anything defaming to gay men. The mechanics were not gay, obviously and they were grossed out when their lips touched. What’s wrong with that? If your not gay, why would you want to kiss someone of the same sex.

Anyway, I’m not gay, so I’m not hyper-sensitive about it. I still thought it was a great commercial.

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Countdown to Survivor Fiji

We’re two days away from the premier of Survivor Fiji. To my surprise, 8 out of 19 of the castaways are from Southern California. Why is that? Are there so many starving actors in twinkle town that they tip the scales in the screening process for Survivor? I also notice that there are 19 castaways to start the season rather than the usual 16. Wonder what Mark Burnett has up his sleeve. I think they will have a hard time topping the cultural divide that was demonstrated in the last season, but I’m confident that there will be some new twists. I hope they get rid of that hidden immunity idol. I think whoever has that has too much leverage too early in the game. If they do keep the hidden immunity idol in the game, I hope the other castaways are smart and make whomever has it use it before they get down to the jury.

At any rate, I was reading the bios on the new survivor castaways and based on that I’ll make some predictions:

Yau-Man Chan will be the first to go. If they cut two on the first episode, Lisi Linares will go as well.
Anthony Robinson grew up in Compton, therefore, he is already a survivor and single mom Rita Verreos will make it to the finals.

Let’s see how my predictions pan out over the next few weeks.
Survivor airs this Thursday February 8th at 8pm on CBS.

The Academy Award Goes To…

Jennifer Hudson’s recent fame has really built a foundation for her as both a singer and an actress. I suppose the honor of winning the Golden Globe and the Oscar nod are enough accomplishments for her if she never worked in the industry again.

Hollywood is a small town and tabloids are portraying Miss Hudson to have made statements that were less than positive of her American Idol launch into her new found stardom.

In a recent article in Essence magazine, Jennifer was quoted to have said that her experience on AI was abusive and that she was misled and brainwashed into believing whatever they wanted her to think. AI’s Randy Jackson was on the Today show this morning and stated that he had heard she was misquoted. In her defense, I have heard her state that without AI, she would’ve have never received a call for Dreamgirls.

So, let’s hope it was a misquote. Like I said, Hollywood is a small town and as much fame as she has earned over the past few months, I hope Jennifer doesn’t burn any bridges behind her. AI is what it is, but regardless it is what opened the door for her. She should really leave it open.

The Oscars air Sunday February 25th at 5pm on ABC.

Why I’ll Never Buy a Chrysler

I recently saw a commercial for the new Chrysler 300 sedan. The commercial shows an old guy leaving a country club and getting into his car at the valet. The announcer states that Chrysler secretly switched this guys Toyota with a new Chrysler. Okay whatever, if the guy can’t notice the difference between a Toyota Camry and the Chrysler 300, then why would anyone want one anyway. That’s not what ticked me off though.

At the end of the commercial, they show the old guy driving in the car with this young lady that could easily be his daughter if not granddaughter. Then the announcer says that they also secretly switched his wife Agnes of 20 years with this young supermodel Isabella. Then the old guy smiles and says thank you Chrysler.

As a wife of almost 16 years, that commercial completely offended me. Where are the values there? Not only that, but I am totally grossed out at the idea of some old guy with a young girl. Tacky!