[grania]

You're being unkind. Listen to last week's performance eyes closed. Kelli has a very sweet voice, and she actually wasn't much more off in places than were some of the trained singers. Also, the way she took the criticism showed a lot more class than you detractors give her credit for.

I see her as the next Suzanne Summers(who started from rock bottom), only doing a situation comedy with some singing thrown in.

My comparison is with the Paris Hiltons of the world, who start out with everything, and think it's funny to act like white trash.

Kelli has a natural graciousness and humility. I hope she chooses a path more higher-end than you give her credit for. At least now, she has a future.

[Palladin]

OK--truce. To tell the truth, I would much rather see a natural talent like Kellie win over a pampered Boston Conservatory grad with an overambitious mother and a saccharinely sentimental old man--I speak, of course, of Katherine McPhee.

But of the three women left standing, I like Paris the best. She has the voice, the personality, and the pizazz to sell a song.