Hollywood Here Comes American Idol 8!
American Idol welcomes the 147 Idol hopefuls in Hollywood last night. They made it from the national auditions to the Kodak Theatre, where they were informally enrolled in a bootcamp of makeovers and coaching at the start of Tuesday’s Idol episode. The singers also got a little speech from “Copacabana” singer Barry Manilow. His definition of stardom? “Preparation meets opportunity.” You said it!
And the auditions go on for the top 36 contestants. Some recognizably good voices got put through to the next day: Lil Rounds, 23; Anoop Desai, 21; Jasmine Murray, 16; Rose Flack, 17; Jorge Nunez, 20; Jackie Tohn, 28; Jamar Rogers, 26, and his music teacher buddy Danny Gokey, 28; Jeremy Michael Sarver, 27; David Osmond, 28; Adam Lambert, 26; and Emily Wynne-Hughes, 21.
Other singers surprise the judges and make it to the following day: Von Smith, 22, highly theatrical in a Judy Garland way. Simon commented to Von – “Indulgent nonsense … the sort of thing a child would do”; Nick Mitchell, 27, whom Idol viewers know as the eccentric Norman Gentle; and Katrina “Bikini Girl” Darrell, 20, who once again wowed Randy and Simon and vaguely sickened Kara.
Ms. Bikini won the best speech of the night saying, “I’m the next American Idol because … I am.”
Before he got out, Dennis Brigham, 19, dissed Simon on his way back to obscurity. “For somebody to be so rich,” he said, “your pants are very very cheap.”
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