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Season 9, Season 9 Contestants, Season 9 Hollywood
Meet the American Idol guys from Los Angeles

February 7, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

Andrew Garcia He’s the 23-year-old from Moreno Valley, Calif., who had a featured role in the Los Angeles audition show — the guy who wants a better life for his young son after watching his parents struggle and hearing how they were involved with gangs in their earlier days. Remember? We met his parents, too,…
Carrie Underwood
Carrie at the Super Bowl (photo gallery) and other Underwood news

February 7, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

Carrie worried about forgetting the lyrics to the national anthem at today’s Super Bowl. She need not have fretted. The performance came off flawlessly, of course. And the Carrie Underwood news keeps coming at us, fast and furious. For instance … * Carrie has landed a role in her first studio movie, called “Soul Surfer.”…
Season 9, Season 9 Auditions
Idol contestants and their wacky, wacky talents

February 5, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

For starters, I never again want to hear about Wheat Thins. I don’t want to see one, let alone eat one. After all, I’ve just watched videos done by about 180 Hollywood-bound American Idol contestants. Dozens and dozens and dozens of which were preceded by a wheat thin commercial. But I learned lots about those…
Carrie Underwood
Carrie will be rooting for the Saints … well, sort of

February 5, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

Carrie hemmed. Carrie hawed. She was facing the toughest question of the day. And it had nothing to do with a Cowboy quarterback named Tony Romo. She got this apologetic look on her face, then finally confessed her allegiance. “I hope people won’t hate me. I hate picking sides. But I’ll probably, 51 percent, be…
Season 9, Season 9 Contestants, Season 9 Hollywood
Meet the American Idol Guys from Denver

February 4, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

Blake Marvin This guy from Lone Tree, Colo., heads his own country-pop-rock band and released a seven-track CD, “Keep Movin’ On, back in 2007. He said he’d been thinking about auditioning for Idol for six or seven years and finally did it in season nine because was prodded by “everybody I know.” His most memorable…
Season 9, Season 9 Contestants, Season 9 Hollywood
Meet the American Idol gals from Denver

February 4, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

Alex Nester This Simi Valley, Calif., resident is a singer, songwriter and cancer surviver. She was diagnosed with cancer back in 2000, at age 16, shortly after winning outstanding female vocalist honors at the Los Angeles Music Award. After chemotherapy and a year-long battle with the disease, she was declared cancer free. “That gives you…
Idols on the Music Chart
Music Charts: Yet another top 10 hit for Carrie Underwood

February 4, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

Everything else is coming up roses for Carrie Underwood these days, why shouldn’t she be graced with another top 10 country hit? I mean, she recently got engaged. She just won another Grammy. Her new album debuted at number one. She’ll have the honors of singing the national anthem for Sunday’s Super Bowl. And her…
Hope Johnson, Season 9, Season 9 Auditions
Meet Hope Johnson, the gal you can’t help but root for

February 3, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

That was a touching end to the American Idol audition episodes, right? I mean, introducing us to Hope Johnson, the 19-year-old waitress and bartender from Pollard, Ark. She lived in poverty as a youngster and told Idol she didn’t realize, growing up, that it wasn’t normal not to have dinner every night. Well, she made…
Aaron Kelly, Lacey Brown, Michael Lynche, Season 9, Season 9 Auditions
And, finally, we meet some of the more talented bound for Hollywood

February 3, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

Tonight, we get an episode of Idol called “The Road to Hollywood.” I don’t remember such an episode in the past. I don’t know what to expect. I’m hoping Idol will spend the hour introducing us to top talent we missed during the audition episodes. Say someone like Crystal Bowersox, who won a golden ticket…
Kimberly Caldwell
Which Super Bowl player was Idol worthy?

February 3, 2010 By Mark Franklin 0

American Idol-like singing competitions are pretty typical these days. But at the Super Bowl? Apparently, “Entertainment Tonight” tried it at Tuesday’s media day. Saint and Colt players were asked to grab a mic and belt out a song — Beyonce’s “Single Ladies,” no less. Season two Idol beauty Kimberly Caldwell — who will finally release…

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