It had all the earmarks of one of those crazy auditions. Sam Novacek of Sutersville, Pa., was about to audition on American Idol, but the camera crew wasn’t focusing on her. They were focused on sister-in-law Patricia Bell. And more specifically, her planking. Which apparently is a yoga position in which one lies on his…
Hallie Day, 24, of Baltimore, certainly impressed the Idol judges during her audition in Pittsburgh. They saved her audition for last in the Pittsburgh episode, and Jennifer Lopez left saying they might have found the one, much as Steven Tyler did last year after Lauren Alaina’s audition. But the Idol judges weren’t the first to…
Gotta admit, I cringed a bit when Eben Franckewitz said people tell him he looks like Justin Bieber during Idol’s Pittsburgh audition episode. That’s because I think Idol would be much better off with less focus on finding the next young teen sensation and more focus on pure musical/vocal talent. That said, Eben was likable…
You might say William “W.T.” Thompson has a little riding on American Idol. He gave up a job at a federal prison to audition for the show last summer. His wife, Laura, was 6 1/2 months pregnant a the time, with a baby due in December. “I had to make a decision, either a job…
