by WindUpDoll

Gotta start with a cheesy group number featuring our final 5. The choreographer has completely given up. The contestants just needed to sit in a certain order when they start with ‘Cracklin’ Rosie.’ Then they had to step-touch to ‘Song Sung Blue.’ They also wow us with ‘Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show.’ David Cook brings the creepy by sounding like a charlatan preacher man. Nice.

Constantine Maroulis and Gina Glockson are working on American Idol Extra, so they’re shilling. Constantine tries to do the stare into the camera. He can’t really do it. I think his extra doughiness is throwing off his Grecian vibe. Then we get the recap of last night’s episode.

Ryan brings up the Paula controversy and says none of the rumors are true and Paula’s a part of the family. Paula is all demure tonight. I think she’s too scared to say anything. Personally I don’t know why everyone was in such a froth. She got confused as to what was dress rehearsal and what was a live performance. So not a big deal. [Read more →]

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by WindUpDoll

Whitney thinks she comes off as fake because she’s nervous. Fatima thinks the girls are jealous of how strong she’s getting. She also talks about how even she forgets about Katarzyna, and she lives with her.

Anya is confused by the TyraMail. Anya seems like she would be confused by many things.

The girls are taken to a field with what we assume are ruins and there are several ‘gladiators’ fighting. The girls get their own lessons in gladiator fighting, which, of course they have to combine with looking fierce. Fatima is getting confused and admits she doesn’t like fighting. Can’t imagine why. However, when Fatima can fight Dominique, she gets into it. [Read more →]

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by WindUpDoll

Ryan Seacrest is wondering if anyone will lose their cool tonight. God willing, someone will. Some chick who looks like Finola Hughes is in the audience. Ryan appeals to us to vote, vote, vote, just like they do in Chicago.

So tonight is Neil Diamond night. He’s very sparkly. Ryan mentions that his first number one was ‘I’m a Believer’ for The Monkees. Oh, yeah. Kristy Lee Cook is wishing she were here to “Come Into America” today. Neil has had some work done. It’s not severe, but he’s rather smooth for having as long of a career that he’s had. The contestants are doing 2 songs, which makes me grateful for the lack of filler.

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Posted by Mike

Before we get started, it’s worth mentioning that the “Sandcastles in the Sand” music video from last week is currently available as a free download at the iTunes Store. So go get it before they start charging for it. We’ll wait till you get back.

OK, so, it’s Ted’s 30th birthday and he’s got a big story to tell about a goat. Wait till you hear it. It’s incredible. But first, there’s another story that needs to be told. One that started at the end of last week’s episode, when Barney and Robin made out. Well, they slept together. Big shock. But here’s where it gets interesting. When they wake up in bed together the next morning — both in a state of shock — they agree to pretend that nothing happened and go back to normal. But not before Barney lifts up the covers to check out naked Robin one last time. “Right click, save as, into the BPEG folder, and OK.” Could it really be that easy? Well, it takes Barney all of a few seconds to brag about scoring with Robin — to Robin. “So, Robin, guess who nailed the chick from Metro News 1 last night.” Classy.

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Posted by: haro1d

And the knot gets pulled just a little tighter. But that’s about it.

The quick recap: Li’l James had a birthday. Brooke (and Peyton, by extension) found out that being a mom isn’t all cutesy bootsies — there are diaper wipers, crying and projectile vomiting, too. Peyton’s recording studio was in the works, Skills was harboring guilt for letting the wicked nanny take off with Jamie at Lucas’ would-be wedding and Millicent let her new roommates know that she could be one of the guys. Jamie’s birthday had a triple dose of creepiness: Deb hired a clown. Dan Scott showed up. Then Deb apparently did the deed with the clown. Lucas continued pining away for Lindsey, but Lindsey wasn’t having it. Handing over her key to Lucas’ place, she made her exit.

And Dan Scott has six months to live. Or so he says.

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Tags: Brooke, Dan Scott, Lucas, Nathan, One Tree Hill, OTH, Peyton

Posted by Cubicle QB

Features on the April 29 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s E:60 sports newsmagazine series:

Mike Tyson Inside the boxing ring, Mike Tyson has fought one highly publicized battle after another. He has served time in prison, battled addictions, made and lost millions of dollars and, ultimately, watched his career as the world’s greatest heavyweight boxer disintegrate into a sideshow. Now at 41, Tyson, one of the world’s most recognized athletes, is entering a new phase of his life. He is living under court-mandated sobriety with monthly drug and alcohol testing after spending much of last year in rehabilitation. Tyson talks to E:60 correspondent Jeremy Schaap about this latest dramatic turning point, including his decision to appear in a documentary about himself.

Ryan and Alicia Shay Ryan Shay was a young man on a mission. An elite marathoner who had won nine national titles at Notre Dame in distance running before switching to the marathon, Shay was training to make the U.S. men’s Olympic team. But on Nov. 3, 2007, during the men’s marathon trials in New York, Shay fell to the pavement and died of a heart ailment. He was 28 years old. E:60 correspondent Lisa Salters sits down with Ryan’s widow, Alicia, to explore Shay’s promising running career and sudden death. Alicia, who is also training for the U.S. women’s Olympic trials in the 10,000 meters, recounts her struggle to move forward without her husband and best friend.

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Posted by Ryan

Yeah, I’m a few days late with the Earl recap. Better late than never, I suppose. But given the quality of this episode, I’m not so sure.

Regrettably, The Hickeys still isn’t canceled. Earl’s now dreaming that he and Billie are old and tired … much like this storyline.

The hospital wants Earl off their hands. So they offer Randy either long-term care for Earl at a county medical facility or a one-time payment of $2,000 in Camden Cash good at four area businesses (one of which is paintball!) if he just takes care of Earl himself. We shouldn’t have to tell you which option Randy chooses.

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Posted by Mike and johnnysweeptheleg

ABC has been running previews for this week’s episode that contain the line, “The island takes one survivor for its own.” Does that mean that another character will be meeting an untimely end, a week after we said goodbye to Alex (not to mention three random members of Locke’s camp who were too stupid to listen to Sawyer — and the sound of gunfire — and stay inside their house)? Maybe, although it’s a pretty open-ended statement. Still, after watching the previews below, we’d be a little worried if we were Claire, Sawyer or Miles.

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By Elaine

Throughout this game, I kept picking different titles for the episode: Parvati plays nice. James gets batty again. Girls gone wild. Erik sucks. But nothing fits the episode quite as well as Killer Bitch.

And, good Lord, isn’t she? I mean Natalie, of course, who used the B-word so frequently to describe Jason (who hadn’t done a single thing to earn the title but be fiercely loyal to her) that I suspect that parents who let their young kids watch this show as either a lesson in how to grow up to be Dick Cheney or the next CEO of some Enron clone, must have given up on holding their precious darlings’ ears. CBS is the network that blurs plumber’s cracks and the castaways’ lips when they swear. Perhaps they should have bleeped the word and flashed it on the bottom of the screen because every kid old enough to read already knows it. That would have been apropos because it would have made it seem like it applied to Natalie and not what she was saying. Or, as Pee Wee Herman put it, “I know you are, but what am I?”

So, for those who missed this episode, let the drama (or at least as much of it as I can remember) unfold.

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Tags: CBS, Fans vs. Favorites, Jason, micronesia, Natalie, Recap, Survivor

Posted by knockturn

Wow, a new episode? Finally …

Brian and Stewie are at Joel’s 2nd birthday party when Brian spots a girl across the yard. When she tells him she thinks magicians are hot, he tells her he’s a magician and would be happy to do a show for her kid’s party. Stewie volunteers to be his assistant, but at the party it turns out that this woman has a boyfriend and they they’re completely happy in their fixer-upper relationship, so Brian bails.

Turns out that Brian found his soulmate years ago in the form of Tracey Flannigan, to whom he admittedly was not the nicest guy (he responded to her story of childhood molestation with, “so you DO go all the way …”)

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