Unfortunately, with "You'll Never Walk Alone" Hollie fell into the same trap tonight that she stumbled into all season. Great voice. Song choices that put viewers to sleep. Stephanie - I groaned a bit when Ace mentioned the jeweler. I was like "Is this Idol? Or The Bachelor?" Even with the competition is over, singing "You'll Never Walk Alone," Hollie still looks like she's forcing it. Great voice, but she struggles to be natural. Inexperience maybe. Joined by Jordan Sparks. The press room BOO'd loudly when he made this into a sponsored segment by announcing the name of the jeweler. After Ryan's recent fake out with his girlfriend, former contestants Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo DO get engaged on Idol. YAY! They're adorable! I'm so ... Continue reading →
Adam 'Ad Rock' Horovitz, Michael 'Mike D' Diamond and Adam 'MCA' Yauch of The Beastie Boys. Mark Mainz/Getty Images "I'm totally numb," Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys said bluntly, in his only interview following the death on May 4th of his bandmate Adam Yauch. Sitting in the New York office of the Beasties' publicist, only 10 days after Yauch's passing, Horovitz fondly recalled their lifetime together in punk, hip-hop and hijinks. He also struggled to describe his feelings after his friend's death and admitted that healing was slow in coming. "My wife is like, 'I want to make sure you're getting it out.' But then I'm walking the dog and I'll start crying on the street." Horovitz shook his head wearily. "It's pretty fucking ... Continue reading →
Rich Addicks for The Wall Street Journal The Battlefort: Brothers Noah and Jacob take a break from engineering with some recreational gun play near their cardboard-box stronghold. Like a lot of boys, Jacob and Noah Budnitz like to build things. And they like to take things apart. First it was Bristle Blocks, then Tinkertoys. They went through Legos—lots of Legos. But now, Jacob, age 10, and Noah, age 8, have graduated to other types of building materials: Doorknobs, alarm clocks and telephones. Plastic bottles and cardboard boxes. Scotch tape. Duct tape. Keys without locks, locks without keys. One thing they don't use? Directions. When the boys use imagination and whatever they find at hand to create something, their mother, Tina Budnitz, calls it tinkering. Their ... Continue reading →
By Alexandra Cheney ABC Madeleine Stowe as Victoria Grayson on “Revenge” MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIF. — Marvel Studios sits on a palm-lined lot in Manhattan Beach, adjacent to a golf course and open to the ocean breeze coming off the Pacific. There’s an abundance of golf carts, although most people prefer to walk around the freshly poured asphalted lot. It is where ABC’s “Revenge” is shot, along with a host of other prime time network shows. On a particularly sunny spring morning, Josh Bowman, who plays the privileged Daniel Grayson, arrived to set in a cutoff shirt, boat shoes and classic Ray-Ban’s. Stepping into his sparsely decorated trailer, he took a huge sigh. Quickly he rose and decided instead to settle across the parking lot. He ... Continue reading →