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American Idol 2006--Live Thread I
FOX ^ | 1-16-06

Posted on 01/16/2006 4:00:11 AM PST by silent_jonny

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To: silent_jonny; All

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18638,00.html

JUST A SNIPPET...(more current info on AI at link)

DialIdol.com

Citing its analysis of Idol phone lines (i.e., the busier the phone line the more popular the contestant), this speed-dialing site predicted that Elliott Yamin would get the hook on Wednesday. The week before, it pegged Lisa Tucker for the inglorious title of lowest vote-getter.

Yamin and Tucker, however, are still around; Corvais and Melissa McGhee, who was bounced the week before, aren't.

So, no, DialIdol.com isn't perfect. (It did much better in the semifinal rounds.) Webmaster Jim Hellriegel, a Chris Daughtry fan who votes for all the finalists equally, said Thursday he's identified a problem in the hopes of making the site more accurate next week.

And, yes, it looks like there will be a next week. Although Hellriegel has heard from Fox's lawyers (over alleged copyright infringement), he hasn't heard from them lately. He even defended the network against conspiracy theorists who allege Fox kept Yamin around in order to call into question DialIdol.com's predicting powers. Said Hellriegel: "I don't think Fox is fixing the results."




MisterPoll.com

There are several Idol polls to be found at this site. The most to the point appears to be the one titled, "Who do you think will win American Idol Season 5?" With some 700 votes cast as of Thursday afternoon, Chris "Daughtery" was misspelled, but safely in the lead.


14,641 posted on 03/24/2006 12:27:58 AM PST by stlnative
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To: All

Several Interesting AI Polls all on one page here...

AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 5 ULTIMATE POLL
This is the one poll that is all about AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 5.

Vote for your favorite, and well the people you'd like to see go home...

http://www.misterpoll.com/53684763.html


14,642 posted on 03/24/2006 12:33:45 AM PST by stlnative
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To: silent_jonny; All

Results

( http://www.misterpoll.com/results.mpl?id=53684763 )




Who do you WANT to win this year's American Idol?

Chris Daughtry (31%)


Taylor Hicks (21%)


Katharine McPhee (15%)


Elliot Yamin (8%)


Mandisa (8%)


Kellie Pickler (7%)


Ace Young (4%)


Kevin Covais (1%)


Melissa McGhee (1%)


Paris Bennett (0%)


Lisa Tucker (0%)


Bucky Covington (0%)


157 total votes




Who do you THINK is going to win this years American Idol?

Chris Daughtry (66%)


Katharine McPhee (9%)


Taylor Hicks (9%)


Mandisa (5%)


Kellie Pickler (3%)


Ace Young (2%)


Elliot Yamin (1%)


Kevin Covais (0%)


Paris Bennett (0%)


Bucky Covington (0%)


Lisa Tucker (0%)


Melissa McGhee (0%)


154 total votes




Who is the hottest female in this year's competition?

Katharine McPhee (50%)


Kellie Pickler (20%)


Mandisa (13%)


Becky O'Donahue (4%)


Lisa Tucker (2%)


Paris Bennett (1%)


Melissa McGhee (1%)


Ayla Brown (1%)


Heather Cox (1%)


Kinnik Sky (0%)


Brenna Gethers (0%)


Stevie Scott (0%)


153 total votes




Who is the hottest male in this year's competition?

Chris Daughtry (45%)


Ace Young (32%)


Taylor Hicks (11%)


Elliot Yamin (2%)


Kevin Covais (2%)


David Radford (2%)


Will Makar (1%)


Bucky Covington (0%)


Bobby Bennett (0%)


Jose "Sway" Penala (0%)


Patrick Hall (0%)


Gedeon McKinney (0%)


149 total votes




Who will be this year's Top 5?

Chris Daughtry (19%)


Taylor Hicks (16%)


Mandisa (15%)


Katharine McPhee (15%)


Kellie Pickler (10%)


Paris Bennett (7%)


Elliot Yamin (6%)


Ace Young (6%)


Lisa Tucker (1%)


Bucky Covington (0%)


Melissa McGhee (0%)


Kevin Covais (0%)


758 total votes



Which famous singers would make it to the finals in THIS YEAR's competition? (Check all that Apply)

Mariah Carey (22%)


Beyonce (21%)


Christina Aguliera (20%)


Gwen Stefani (13%)


James Blunt (6%)


Britney Spears (4%)


Ludacris (3%)


Eminem (2%)


50 Cent (1%)


Bow Wow (1%)


Daddy Yankee (1%)


Cascada (0%)


388 total votes



Which ONE contestant would you be able to hold an hour-long conversation with?

Taylor Hicks (30%)


Chris Daughtry (18%)


Kellie Pickler (13%)


Katharine McPhee (11%)


Mandisa (10%)


Elliot Yamin (6%)


Ace Young (4%)


Lisa Tucker (2%)


Melissa McGhee (2%)


Kevin Covais (0%)


Paris Bennett (0%)


Bucky Covington (0%)


150 total votes



Which contestants after this year's American Idol, will be guaranteed a record deal? (Choose all that Apply)

Chris Daughtry (21%)


Mandisa (15%)


Katharine McPhee (14%)


Taylor Hicks (12%)


Paris Bennett (10%)


Kellie Pickler (7%)


Elliot Yamin (7%)


Ace Young (6%)


Lisa Tucker (3%)


Bucky Covington (0%)


Kevin Covais (0%)


Melissa McGhee (0%)


639 total votes



Which judge is your favorite?

Simon Cowell (72%)


Paula Abdul (13%)


Randy Jackson (13%)


151 total votes



Which of the following Idols from prior seasons would NOT make it to the Top 12 now? (Choose all that Apply)

Mikaylah Gordon (16%)


Scott Savol (14%)


Lindsey Cardinale (13%)


Ryan Starr (11%)


Nikki McKibbin (11%)


Trenyce (10%)


Kimberly Caldwell (8%)


Ruben Studdard (7%)


Tamyra Gray (5%)


552 total votes


14,643 posted on 03/24/2006 12:43:02 AM PST by stlnative
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To: silent_jonny; All

OH BARF... GET OUT YOUR PUKE BAGS!

Lifetime puts Fantasia's life on film

LOS ANGELES: The inspiring story of "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino is being put on film for the Lifetime cable network.

~snip~

http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=30718


14,644 posted on 03/24/2006 12:58:04 AM PST by stlnative
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Clarkson cancels Israeli concerts
24 Mar 2006

http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=30705


14,645 posted on 03/24/2006 12:59:38 AM PST by stlnative
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To: stlnative; Wolfstar
Thanks for the link--

Clarkson cancels Israeli concerts

JERUSALEM: "American Idol" champion Kelly Clarkson canceled her Israel concert tour Thursday, saying a recently acquired throat illness has gotten worse.

Clarkson performed in Berlin Wednesday after canceling a Paris show, but her condition flared up afterward, and doctors advised her to refrain from singing until it healed, Ha'aretz news service reported Thursday.

Partner Telecom, owner of mobile phone operator Orange Israel and a major sponsor of the concert series, is expected to take a hit after investing approximately $400,000 in an advertising campaign and offering reduced price tickets to customers, Ha'aretz reported. The company said all tickets would be refunded.

Clarkson rose to fame after winning the first season of Fox TV's talent competition.

http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=30705


14,646 posted on 03/24/2006 5:52:47 AM PST by silent_jonny (You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day)
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To: stlnative
Who is the hottest female in this year's competition?
Katharine McPhee (50%)
Kellie Pickler (20%)

LOL! Can't argue with that :)

14,647 posted on 03/24/2006 5:56:49 AM PST by silent_jonny (You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day)
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To: stlnative; Wolfstar; retrokitten
PUKE is right!

Lifetime puts Fantasia's life on film

LOS ANGELES: The inspiring story of "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino is being put on film for the Lifetime cable network.

The singer is expected to play herself in the story of how she overcame sexual abuse, poverty and illiteracy to win the Fox TV talent competition's third season, create a double platinum album and grab four 2006 Grammy nominations, The New York Post reported Thursday.

Barrino released a memoir last year called "Life is Not a Fairy Tale" and revealed she was functionally illiterate and working with tutors to improve her skills.

http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=30718


14,648 posted on 03/24/2006 5:59:02 AM PST by silent_jonny (You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart every day)
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To: silent_jonny

You can bet money that I won't be watching it!


14,649 posted on 03/24/2006 6:24:50 AM PST by Netizen (I voted for Scott and Anthony, because I like the underdog singers the best. texasflower 04/20/2005)
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To: LA Woman3

She is so....I don't even know. I'm running out of ways to say cray.


14,650 posted on 03/24/2006 6:26:09 AM PST by retrokitten (You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there)
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To: silent_jonny

Are you going to do a live thread? Bwaaahaaahaaaaa!!!


14,651 posted on 03/24/2006 6:27:27 AM PST by retrokitten (You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there)
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To: stlnative
Which ONE contestant would you be able to hold an hour-long conversation with?

Kellie Pickler (13%)

Wow, she can't even seem to hold up very well in a 2-minute interview.

14,652 posted on 03/24/2006 6:30:44 AM PST by Always Right
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To: retrokitten
Are you going to do a live thread? Bwaaahaaahaaaaa!!!

That is SO funny! :)

14,653 posted on 03/24/2006 6:33:23 AM PST by Netizen (I voted for Scott and Anthony, because I like the underdog singers the best. texasflower 04/20/2005)
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To: LA Woman3
She is so....I don't even know. I'm running out of ways to say cray.

I'm running out of ways to say craZy, too. ;-)

14,654 posted on 03/24/2006 6:35:29 AM PST by retrokitten (You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there)
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To: Always Right
Wow, she can't even seem to hold up very well in a 2-minute interview.

Well, it would be a two-minute conversation, interrupted by 58 minutes of explaining all of the words used in that two-minute conversation.

14,655 posted on 03/24/2006 6:44:48 AM PST by kevkrom ("...no one has ever successfully waged a war against stupidity" - Orson Scott Card)
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To: kevkrom; Always Right
it would be a two-minute conversation, interrupted by 58 minutes of explaining all of the words used in that two-minute conversation

Or, now that I think of it more... 2 minutes of conversation, 48 minutes of explaining all of the words used in that two-minute conversation, and about 10 minutes of frustrated screaming along the lines of "I DON'T CARE IF THERE'S AN 'L' IN THERE, IT'S PRONOUNCED 'SAMMON'!!!"

14,656 posted on 03/24/2006 6:48:39 AM PST by kevkrom ("...no one has ever successfully waged a war against stupidity" - Orson Scott Card)
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To: doodlelady

That's what I thought at the time.

She was bragging about being his mother. "You know, I'm Barry Manilow's mother"

Aids was really in the news back then. Everybody was talking about it, and how horrible it was.

Plus, I was there for 3 weeks, almost 12 hours a day. So I saw her a lot.


14,657 posted on 03/24/2006 6:57:14 AM PST by Collier
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To: over3Owithabrain

It's absolutely true.

She was laughing when she said it.

If I remember correctly, she either said she sent it or was going to send it for his 40th birthday.

This was July 20th, 1987 to August something. Find out when his birthday is, and if he was born in 1947.

Also, my son was there, 16 yrs old, with a catastrophic injury.........so my memory is not perfect. But that I remember.


14,658 posted on 03/24/2006 7:01:02 AM PST by Collier
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To: stlnative
"Who do you WANT to win this year's American Idol?

Paris Bennett (0%)"

That's not a good sign for her.

14,659 posted on 03/24/2006 7:01:46 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: silent_jonny; stlnative

Thanks for the info about Kelly having to cancel her Israeli concerts. I had already seen the news over at KCE, of course. Kelly has toured almost non-stop for about 18 months now. The Israeli concerts were going to be the end of this European tour. Hopefully she will now take a good, long rest. She has had occasional throat problems ever since she was on AI and both she and Tamyra got sick. They still had to perform and do other AI stuff. Kelly got sick in Australia last year and had to cancel some of her New Zealand dates. She was able to reschedule them later. Hopefully she'll be able to reschedule the Israeli dates at some point.


14,660 posted on 03/24/2006 7:26:05 AM PST by Wolfstar (There is no death, though eyes grow dim. There is no fear when I'm near to Him.)
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