Archive: May 6, 2007 - May 12, 2007
LaKisha Out
"The Dreamgirls" semi-finals won't happen next week on "American Idol." LaKisha Jones got the hook after receiving fewer of the 45 million votes cast this week than had Melinda Doolittle, Jordin Sparks, or Beatbox Boy Blake Lewis, who we increasingly suspect is a hologram. The Results show is strangely distressing...
By Lisa de Moraes | May 10, 2007; 8:09 AM ET | Comments (31)
All Hail 'Imperial Idol'
"American Idol" producers finally threw off the pretense they're doing a nice little singing competition and revealed the show for what it has become: "Imperial Idol" -- a bloated, overproduced, marketing barge on which the show's judges, host and contestants are being forced to row faster and faster. There's no...
By Lisa de Moraes | May 9, 2007; 6:00 AM ET | Comments (28)
