Posted on 03/13/2007 5:46:36 AM PDT by silent_jonny
I think the sideburn area looks shorter which might make it look darker.
and looks damned good....
Hey there................... I don't know if you all have seen this or not.
American Idol's Simon Cowell to be judged by drivers on 60 minutes: #2-Kurt Busch, #15-Michael Waltrip and Racing Legend Mario Andretti will be the "judges" who critique Simon Cowell's high-speed driving abilities in a segment in Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes" on CBS, the show airs at 7:00pm/et. Cowell will be behind the wheel of a 600 horsepower, full-sized Indy-style race car in conjunction with the Mario Andretti Racing School. Busch will also be the special featured guest on Monday night's edition of ESPN2's NASCAR Now show, which airs at 6:30pm/et.(Tom Roberts PR)(3-17-2007)
Thanks for pinging us to this, WCG. :)
LOL! AI has seeped into every aspect of our pop culture, it seems.
BTW, just who is going to judge Michael Waltrip's high-speed driving abilities? Except for the period when DEI was out-engineering every other team with Daytona and Talladega cars, "Mikey" has never been able to drive himself out of a paper bag.
Have I mentioned how stupid it is for a 40-something man to let people call him "Mikey?"
BTW I love Simon, he's got that sexy look about him. :) Looking forward to that show even though normally I wouldn't be caught dead watching 60 minutes.
Uhhhh....this is American Idol. I'd much rather see one of the Eagles, or Tom Petty, or Stevie Nicks, or Cher do the coaching.
Or maybe Simon just isn't as glorious to rockers that started out awhile ago on this side of the pond.
I agree. I keep hoping some day they will have Neil Diamond on. :)
Simon Cowell Regrets Turning Down Sex Cash 3/18/07
http://www.celebrityspider.com/news/march07/article031707-6.html
American Idol star Simon Cowell regrets turning down $100,000 to critique a couple's lovemaking.
The music mogul admits he was offered the cash by a kinky, rich guy to watch him have sex with his wife, and now wishes he'd taken up the offer.
Cowell says, "He wanted me to come to his house and comment on him and his wife in bed. He was going to pay me $100,000 for it.
"I stupidly turned it down... It would have been a much more interesting story now."
Hi Jonny. I might record 60 Minutes tonight, then just skip to Simon's part. It has literally been years since I last watch 60 Minutes.
That's the first half, the second half is Simon.
Simon gets paid 30 mil. a year by FOX for Idol and ANOTHER 38 mil. for hosting a similar show in England.
Cowell drives an Indycar and afterwards he's critiqued by Andretti, Waltrip and Busch--pretty funny :)
Supposedly Simon is the richest man in England.
At least Busch and Andretti are championship caliber drivers. Waltrip is useless.
LOL! Did you see the pre-race show today? Jeff Hammond, some blonde woman and Darrell Waltrip were doing an American Idol spoof with them playing the judges.
They critiqued Michael Waltrip and even Darrell (as Simon) couldn't make any excuses for him.
Hammond (as Randy) said "Dog, I'm not even a driver and I have more points than you."
LOLOL!
I did. It was very funny. I loved Hammond's line. :)
Has rap music hit a wall?NEW YORK (AP) -- Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit.
The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture's negative effect on society.
Rap insider Chuck Creekmur, who runs the leading Web site Allhiphop.com, says he got a message from a friend recently "asking me to hook her up with some Red Hot Chili Peppers because she said she's through with rap. A lot of people are sick of rap ... the negativity is just over the top now." (Watch how hip-hop can revel in stereotypes -- or highlight injustice )
The rapper Nas, considered one of the greats, challenged the condition of the art form when he titled his latest album "Hip-Hop is Dead." It's at least ailing, according to recent statistics: Though music sales are down overall, rap sales slid a whopping 21 percent from 2005 to 2006, and for the first time in 12 years no rap album was among the top 10 sellers of the year.
A recent study by the Black Youth Project showed a majority of youth think rap has too many violent images. In a poll of black Americans by The Associated Press and AOL-Black Voices last year, 50 percent of respondents said hip-hop was a negative force in American society.
The death of rap and hip-hop can't come a moment too soon for me.
Wow, that's good (and surprising) news. I'll be happy to see hip-hop/rap go too.
A recent study by the Black Youth Project showed a majority of youth think rap has too many violent images. In a poll of black Americans by The Associated Press and AOL-Black Voices last year, 50 percent of respondents said hip-hop was a negative force in American society.
Thank goodness someone's getting it! If it disappears tomorrow, it wouldn't be too soon!
I agree with both of you. To me, rap is not music, but just rhythmic speech. It all sounds the same. Hip-hop is more musical, while what passes for R&B these days is a pale imitation of classic R&B. All of the so-called urban genre of music celebrates the absolute worst, most vile aspects if human nature.
The good thing is that as urban music fades, rock is making a strong comeback.
The Britney Spears type of bubblegum pop is also fading, thank goodness.
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