Entertainment Updats: May 2012

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Jay-Z, Kanye West's 'No Church' Video Sparks Revolution

The Throne don't appear in their new 'No Church in the Wild' video, but deliver a powerful clip all the same.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand": If a quote could sum up the Throne's "No Church in the Wild" music video, Frederick Douglass' famed call for revolution might do it best.

Neither Kanye West nor Jay-Z actually appear in their Romain Gavras-directed clip, which was released online Tuesday (May 29) — and, frankly, an appearance by the megastar duo could've very well hindered the powerful message they were trying to send.

President Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to musician Bob Dylan.

WASHINGTON - Music icon Bob Dylan, wearing sunglasses, and Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as secretary of state, were among 13 people awarded the Medal of Freedom Tuesday by President Obama.

Justin Bieber is a suspect in a criminal battery ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.

Justin was in Calabasas, where he lives, just after noon Sunday at a mall called The Commons. A paparazzo attempted to take Justin's picture and, according to law enforcement, some sort of physical altercation erupted between Justin and the camera guy.

DOGS IN THE CITY. 8 p.m. Wednesday, CBS 3.

BREAKING POINTE. 8 p.m. Thursday, CW Philly 57.

CBS’ newest "reality" show isn’t a singing contest, but Randy Jackson might feel right at home there, anyway.

Not that "Dogs in the City" needs any dawg-loving "American Idol" judges: It has actual dogs.

Fans of Animal Planet’s "It’s Me or the Dog" or National Geographic’s "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan" will recognize this summer series about New Yorkers and the canines that own them for the copycat it is, but who cares?

It has dogs!

Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain jumps ship from the Travel Channel to CNN this fall.

The author and TV personality, best known for his series "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" and his willingness to travel anywhere for good food - even into war zones - will have his own show on the cable news network's 2013 lineup.

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave the United States' top civilian honor on Tuesday to musician Bob Dylan, novelist Toni Morrison and 11 other people he described as his heroes because of their powerful words, songs and actions.

"What sets these men and women apart is the incredible impact they have had on so many people - not in short, blinding bursts, but steadily, over the course of a lifetime," Obama said, presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom awards in a packed ceremony at the White House.

Doc Watson: Bluegrass picker elevated guitar

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound and lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world, died Tuesday in North Carolina, a hospital spokeswoman and his manager said. He was 89.

OK, so this was the least painful episode of "The Bachelorette" yet this season. But it included a visit to Dollywood. So, obviously.

That's right. Dolly Parton herself made an appearance on "The Bach" this week, and her glitter and ample cleavage and bedazzled gloves temporarily made this season bearable. Unlike the men vying for Emily's affection, Dolly was also the only person capable of bringing some personality out of our leading lady.

She's played everything from a distressed publicist to a noblewoman on the big screen, and now Jessica Biel is looking at a completely new role in real life: housewife.

"To me, nothing will really change, because I'm almost never home," the Total Recall actress, 30, tells the French magazine Gala in a translated interview. "But when I am home, I enjoy cooking."

Some specialties she might serve up to soon-to-be husband Justin Timberlake?

Justin Bieber Investigated In Criminal Battery Against Paparazzo

Photographer claims that Bieber got into a physical altercation with him on Sunday.

Every young star has to go through the certain rites of passage: your first starring role, landing a platinum debut album, first fake tabloid headline. On Saturday, Justin Bieber earned his stripes by allegedly getting into an altercation with a paparazzi photographer.

According to TMZ, Bieber is a suspect in a criminal battery investigation after he got into it with a photographer on Sunday at a mall in Calabasas, California, where the singer lives. The site reported that the unnamed photographer was attempting to snap a shot of Bieber when a physical altercation took place between them.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- She was caged at King’s Landing all season long, but on Sunday’s “Game of Thrones,” Sophie Turner’s Sansa Stark took flight.

After Queen Cersei abandoned the ladies of court at the height of the battle of Blackwater, Sansa went from “little dove” to pack-leading wolf, with an inspired speech. A defining moment for the Stark character, the young British actress said the hardest part of the scene wasn’t pulling off her address.

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, “Amour.”

Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather your closest friends for some wine and nightshade, raise the drawbridge and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.

“Some of those boys will never come back.” “Joffrey will. The worst ones always live.”

Cynthia Nixon has finally said "I Do" to longtime partner Christine Marinoni.

The couple, who got engaged three years ago at a rally to support gay marriage in New York, wed Sunday in the Big Apple, according to People.

MORE: Tony Nominations: Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Nixon Score Nods—but Did Spider-Man Snag Anything in Its Web?

Scott D. Pierce: Nicole Kidman says sex during wartime is ‘awesome’ — on film, that is

In the fact-based HBO movie "Hemingway & Gellhorn," the two title characters make passionate love in the midst of the Spanish Civil War.

Really passionate love while bombs explode and the building collapses around them.

And it was "awesome," according to Nicole Kidman, who stars as acclaimed war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, the third wife of Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen).

"It really emphasizes that they came together through war," said Kidman. "They fed off that drama and that energy, in a way. Two people that would make love through a building collapsing, that says something about who they are."

Can’t really argue with that.

Gellhorn’s name doesn’t ring down through the years the way Hemingway’s does, but she is far more than just the third of his four wives. She was one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century, a pioneer who covered everything from the fight against Franco to the European and Asian theaters in World War II to the Six Day War in the Middle East to the Vietnam War.

At age 81, she reported on the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama. And Kidman said she was inspired by Gellhorn’s life. "I love these women that defy the odds and that burn bright," she said.

The Hemingway-Gellhorn romance certainly burned hot. "It was probably the serious love of his life," Owen said. "The relationship lasted about seven years, and it was incredibly intense, incredibly passionate. He met his match, really."

As depicted in the 2½-hour movie, which premieres Monday at 10 p.m. on HBO, Gellhorn was both journalist and crusader. She hated the fascists and the nationalist Chinese and found stories in the regular people most affected by war.

And at one point during the film, she uses an expletive to refer to journalistic objectivity.

"She didn’t believe in being objective as a journalist," Kidman said. "She believed in having an opinion. And I think that’s important in this day and age — having an opinion and being willing to stand up for that."

The story of Gellhorn and Hemingway’s tempestuous romance plays out on a background of some of the most important events of the ’30s and ’40s. And the film very cleverly and seamlessly inserts Kidman and Clive into archival footage, which works in an amazing way.

Although she gets second billing in the title, "Hemingway & Gellhorn" centers on Gellhorn. There’s a line in the movie when she says, "I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else’s life."

And the love-among-the-ruins-of-war scene tells you as much about her as it does about him.

"It was important," Kidman said, "because you really see that this is where they’re their most comfortable, they’re most passionate, and that’s where their love thrives."

'Game of Thrones' recap: The Battle of Blackwater brings HBO series to new heights

Proof of the extra heft of Sunday's episode of HBO's "Game of Thrones" came as viewers realized that there would be no continuation of most of the open storylines that make up the epic fantasy series.

Happy Birthday, Shiloh! Brangelina's Third Child Turns 6!

It's time to throw on that tuxedo (shirt) and party!

It seems like only yesterday the world was awaiting the arrival of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's little one; today their free-spirited tyke Shiloh Jolie-Pitt turns 6.

MORE: Brad Pitt Talks Marrying Angelina Jolie While Stepping Out Solo at Cannes—Did He Reveal Wedding Date?

And considering the superstar couple was snapped doing some major decorations shopping for Shiloh's last birthday party, we're guessing this year's bash is going to be quite the festive shindig as well.

Hatfields, McCoys pitted in miniseries

SAN FRANCISCO — The bloody feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families at the end of the 19th century has become so much a part of American folklore and cultural mythology that it would be unthinkable to refer to it, even 130 years after it started, as the McCoys and the Hatfields.

The indelibility of the mythology is just part of what director Kevin Reynolds and screenwriters Ted Mann and Ronald Parker were up against as they turned the feud into a three-part miniseries for the History cable network, running three nights beginning Monday.

When you consider that the feud defined Americans’ concept of “hillbillies” — from Al Capp’s classic comic strip L’il Abner to old sitcoms such as The Real McCoys — the challenge for Reynolds, Parker and Mann was to disabuse us of the notion that there was anything remotely humorous about the feud.

What we do know is that for six years, two families in West Virginia and Kentucky killed one another.

Hatfields & McCoys does a good job of explaining the roots of the feud. The hatred between the patriarchs of the two families began with friendship. Devil Anse Hatfield (Kevin Costner) and Randall McCoy (Bill Paxton) fought together in the Civil War, until Hatfield mounted his horse and returned home to his wife in West Virginia in the midst of battle.

McCoy returned to the hills just across the state line in Kentucky much later, embittered by his experiences in the war and resentful of Hatfield for deserting. That bitterness was the tinder that would fuel the titanic war between the two families.

There was no single cause of the feud — one thing just seemed to lead to another. The murder of a McCoy family member by Hatfield’s uncle, Jim Vance (Tom Berenger), was the first spark, followed by accusations that the Hatfields had stolen a pig from one of the McCoys.

The families also fought over the timber rights to a plot of land deeded to the Hatfields by a deceased McCoy. Then there was the Romeo and Juliet plot twist: Devil’s son, Johnse (Matt Barr), fell in love with Roseanna McCoy (Lindsay Pulsipher), who left her family and moved in with the Hatfields, incurring biblical wrath from her father. She gave birth to a child out of wedlock, while Johnse went on to marry Roseanna’s cousin, Nancy McCoy (Jena Malone).

As the body count rises, even the family members seem to forget why they hate one another, which only adds to our realization that, if anyone had just taken a step back at the beginning, all those deaths could have been avoided.

Michelle Obama, daughters attend Beyonce concert in Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY — Michelle Obama was with the single ladies this weekend, joining 5,500 fans at a Beyonce concert in Atlantic City.

The first lady was with daughters Sasha and Malia at Revel Resorts, where Beyonce performed two dozen songs Saturday night. Obama's husband, President Barack Obama, did not attend.

Gov. Chris Christie was among the sell-out crowd packed into Revel's Ovation Hall.

MEN IN BLACK III
DIRECTED BY: BARRY SONNENFELD

WRITTEN BY: LOWELL CUNNINGHAM

STARRING: WILL SMITH, TOMMY LEE JONES, JOSH BROLIN

There are two things that I remember about the Men in Black films: Will Smith being in them, and Frank The Pug. Granted, I was young when I saw them. Man, I loved Frank The Pug. But alas, while Frank The Pug isn't back for Men In Black's third installment that nobody asked for, Will Smith is, for his first movie in four years. MIB III reunites us with Agents J and K, with the former going forty years into the past to discover the mysterious time-space continuum disappearance of the latter.

History Channel miniseries looks to tell the true, tragic story behind the post-Civil War family antagonism

“This successful life we’re livin’

Got us feudin’ like the Hatfields and McCoys ... ”

— Waylon Jennings, “Luckenbach, Texas”

Like almost everyone else in America, Kevin Costner grew up hearing stories about the 19th-century feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, clans along the West Virginia-Kentucky border.

While Phillip Phillips' win drew a record 132 million votes, ratings were down 30 percent.

It was the best of times and the worst of times for "American Idol" this week. Yes, a record 132 million votes came in on Tuesday night to help Phillip Phillips take home the top prize. But when the ratings for the finale were tallied up, well, nobody was popping corks or firing up the confetti cannons anymore.

Ponder this: Ratings for the season 11 finale were half of what they were during the 2003 season when Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken duked it out in front of 38 million viewers. Half is still 21.5 million, but that number is way down (27 percent) from the 29.3 million who saw Scotty McCreery take home the crown last year.

In fact, according to final Nielsen Co. figures, Wednesday night's "Idol" viewership is the smallest ever for the show's finale. Not only was the tune-in number an all-time low, but the show's 6.4 rating among the coveted adults 18-49 demographic was down 30 percent from last year as well.

"Idol" can take some solace in easily beating the finale ratings for such up-and-coming rivals as "The Voice" (11.93 million viewers, 4.4 rating) and "X Factor" (12.59 million viewers, 3.8 rating). The ratings decline this year was expected, since season 10 got a bit of a boost when Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler were added into the mix following the departure of former lead judge Simon Cowell.

Though it came into the season with the bragging rights as the #1 show on TV, "Idol" shed nearly 25 percent of its audience this year, falling below 20 million viewers for the first time since 2003. According to reports, the steepest drop-off was among viewers 18-49, the most sought-after demographic among networks.

The other shoe to drop on Thursday was that for the first time in eight years, "Idol" will not finish the season as the top-rated primetime program. According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC's "Sunday Night Football" finished the 2011-2012 season as the dominant primetime program in total viewers and in all key audience demographics. "Football" averaged 20.7 million viewers this season and an 8.0 rating in the 28-49 demo.

The Wednesday night "Idol" performance broadcasts averaged 19.7 million viewers and 18.3 million on Thursday for the season, along with a 6.2 rating on Wednesday's.

Al Gordon, Skit Writer for Benny and Burnett, Dies at 89

Al Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer whose fast-paced material helped Jack Benny make the transition from radio to television in the 1950s and was later a staple of the Smothers Brothers, Flip Wilson and Carol Burnett comedy shows in the 1960s and ’70s, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 89. His death was confirmed by a spokesman for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

CANNES, France (AP) — Love is in the air at the Cannes Film Festival, as the jury sits down Sunday to choose its prizewinners.

There's love in the face of death in Michael Haneke's "Amour," love in conflict with faith in Christian Mungiu's "Beyond the Hills" and love against the odds in Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone" — three favorites to take the top prize, the Palme d'Or.

The jury, which is led by Italian director Nanni Moretti and includes actors Ewan McGregor and Diane Kruger, director Alexander Payne and fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, will announce the prize winners at a ceremony later.

Thursday night's debut of network TV's latest singing competition, "Duets," marked the re-emergence of R&B singer Robin Thicke into the mainstream.

The 34-year-old singer-songwriter, best known for his 2006 hit "Lost Without U," admits that he isn't very well known outside of his more niche audience, but is excited to expand his brand to the rest of America.

In the Eurovision Song Contest, the perfect score is 12 points. Unfortunately, it's necessary to get these top marks from most countries in most rounds — as the 2012 winner, Loreen from Sweden, achieved on Saturday night — rather than accumulating the dozen votes from 41 countries across the whole evening, as happened to the UK's Englebert Humperdinck in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.

Director Jeff Nichols couldn't help but to notice a big trend at this year's Cannes Film Festival – the Southern United States is extremely well-represented in the South of France.

There are six American films in competition and many of these films take place in the South – including his film Mud, a tear-jerking drama set around the Mississippi River.

Michelle Obama, Daughters Attend Beyonce Concert

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Michelle Obama was with the single ladies this weekend, joining 5,500 fans at a Beyonce concert in Atlantic City.

The first lady was with daughters Sasha and Malia at Revel Resorts, where Beyonce performed two dozen songs Saturday night. Obama's husband, President Barack Obama, did not attend.

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN - Sweden’s Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan on Sunday before an international TV audience of 100 million, days after angering Azeri authorities by meeting rights activists critical of the host country’s human rights record.

Cannes gets happy ending with river film "Mud"

By Mike Collett-White

CANNES, France, May 26 (Reuters) - "Mud", a touching
coming-of-age tale set on the Mississippi River and starring
Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, brought the Cannes
film festival competition to a close on Saturday, earning warm
applause at a press screening.

Ruining Star Wars

(May 25, 2012) -- Star Wars. Whether consciously or not, simply the name of the film series sends waves of memories and reflections through millions of people's minds. With an immense cult following and colossal marketing strategies, it should come as no surprise that Star Wars will likely go down as one of the most popular science fiction franchises in modern history.

Despite the huge fanbase and unmistakable name, Star Wars' demise may very well be in the hands of the man who created the saga — George Lucas.

In its 75 years, the miracle that is the Golden Gate Bridge has inspired generations of musicians, filmmakers, writers, artists and everyday people who have their own creative thoughts and feelings about the iconic span.

When musicians look at its harplike towers and cables, they hear it as much as they see it.

David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis,” an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s complex 2003 novel, the camera lingers on a row of shiny white stretch limos as a narrator ominously informs us that the rat has become a unit of currency. This sets the film’s tone of impending doom, and that’s only the beginning.

Robert Pattinson's Big Cannes Cosmopolis Premiere: Did Kristen Stewart Show Up?!

Kristen Stewart had her day in the Cannes spotlight on Wednesday (when she wowed for the premiere of her film, On the Road), but today is all about Robert Pattinson.

Prime time is flush with its fair share of competing reality singing competitions, but veteran judge Paula Abdul is hopeful for her successors on “X Factor.”

Atlantic City's Revel resort and casino is clearly more than just another concert stop for Beyonce. It's the first time she'll be performing since the birth of her daughter, Blue Ivy , in January, and the $2 billion resort is pulling out all the stops to promote her three dates at the casino's largest theater, which coincide with Revel's official grand opening this weekend.

CANNES, France — Here’s why the world’s greatest film festival, the one on the Cote d’Azur, means something, and to some filmmakers means everything — even if a lot of the surrounding movies are lame.

Doc Watson, the 89-year-old guitarist whose expert flatpicking style brought him a level of acclaim during the folk revival of the 1960s and who is still revered 50 years on, is recovering after he fell down at his Deep Gap, N.C., home. According to Mitch Greenhill, president of Folklore Productions International, which represents him, after being taken to to a hospital, other health issues were discovered.

"They determined after keeping him overnight that there were more serious things going on, and they transferred him to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem for surgery," said Greenhill. The musician, who lost his eyesight when he was a year old, remains in critical but stable condition after undergoing colon surgery, he added.

A statement on the company's website reads, "Doc Watson is in critical but improved condition after undergoing colon surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The family appreciates everyone’s prayers and good wishes."

The guitarist and banjo player didn't achieve national acclaim until age 30, but drew influential supporters after his first appearance at Gerde's Folk City in 1961. After hooking up with fellow folkies such as David Grisman, Watson became a well-known figure in the budding scene. He was a regular performer at the Ash Grove whenever he was in Los Angeles.

These days, Watson is known as well for his founding of the popular North Carolina music event Merlefest, which brings together folkies from all over the country for a pleasant, family-friendly weekend of music. The event, which Watson started in the memory of his late son, celebrated its 25th anniversary in April, when the three-day event brought together dozens of acts, including Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and John Hammond. And, of course, headlining was Watson himself.

What Scares Oren Peli?

For Oren Peli, the filmmaker who helped usher in a new wave of found footage horror movies after the success of his first feature, “Paranormal Activity,” the scariest devil is the one you don’t know. His latest project, “Chernobyl Diaries,” follows young travelers who participate in what the film calls “extreme” tourism. A tour guide drives the group into the city of Pripyat, the former home to workers at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, a place that was evacuated after the disaster. The travelers, of course, learn that the town isn’t completely deserted.

Third film in the franchise sees Agents K and J time-traveling to 1969, but is it worth a trip to the theater?

Can you believe it's already been 15 years since we first met Agents K (Tommy Lee Jones) and new-recruit-turned-agent J (Will Smith)? Time flies, even when the subject of fictional time travel is at play. "Men in Black" debuted to rave reviews back in 1997 and its filmmakers and stars are hoping for the same warm welcome at the box office this weekend when "Men in Black 3" rolls into theaters.

Demi Lovato's mother Dianna thinks Simon Cowell is ''even better looking'' in person after her daughter made her debut as a judge on 'The X Factor' USA yesterday (24.05.12).

Demi Lovato's mother thinks Simon Cowell is ''even better looking'' in person than on TV.

The 19-year-old singer joined the music mogul, L.A. Reid and fellow new judge Britney Spears on the 'X Factor' panel for the first time at auditions in Austin, Texas, yesterday (24.05.12) and Demi's mum Dianna Hart de la Garza was particularly enamoured with 52-year-old Simon.

British boy band talks to MTV News about their 'incredible' Stateside tour experience and their 'Up All Night' DVD dropping Tuesday.

One Direction are in the first week of their headlining U.S. tour. And, according to the guys themselves, they've gotten as much love from fans in the States as they did abroad.

"[It's going] good, great," Louis Tomlinson explained to MTV News. "We did the first show [Tuesday and] it was amazing."

Liam Payne still hasn't gotten over the scope of the shows they are playing here in the States, adding, "[It's] incredible. It's the biggest show we've done as a band so far, biggest audience for our own tour. So, it's amazing, absolutely amazing, incredible."

For fans who weren't able to nab tickets to the show, or have seen it and want to relive it, the band will drop their concert DVD, "Up All Night: The Live Tour" on Tuesday. And, Niall Horan explained how it all came together. "It was a show of our U.K. tour we did in January and we shot one of the shows for people who couldn't get tickets to the show," he said. "And we're actually touring that show now in the U.S., so everyone's going to get to see it at some stage."

"Up All Night: The Live Tour" is 73 minutes of 1D goodness, filled with campfire sing-alongs, quick shots of the guys shirtless during costume changes and even the fellas all done up in sleek suits as they close out the show with "I Want."

Once the band wraps up their tour here in July, One Direction will come back to the States in 2013 as a part of their massive world tour.

Kidman glam at Paperboy premiere

Nicole Kidman took to the red carpet in Cannes with co-star Zac Efron for the premiere of their new film The Paperboy.

The Oscar-winning actress wore a backless, rose-pink Lanvin gown as she arrived with her husband, Australian country music singer Keith Urban.

Nicole, 44, and Zac, 24, were joined by the film's other stars, Matthew McConaughey, Macy Gray, John Cusack, David Oyelowo and director Lee Daniels.

Nicole plays fake-tanned, bottle blonde Charlotte Bless, who pens letters to a death row prisoner - played by John - in the movie, while High School Musical's Zac stars as a young aspiring writer who falls for Charlotte.

Zac spends much of the film in his underpants, but said he didn't mind the scrutiny.

"I don't think I was supposed to feel comfortable," the actor revealed.

"It's like life. This character is supposed to be learning the ways of the world, and that can be very uncomfortable. But it's also exciting."

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Kelly Clarkson brings ‘Idol’ lessons to ‘Duets’

Kelly Clarkson is having a major case of deja vu.

The first winner of “American Idol” is now helping other singers get their start in the new ABC talent competition “Duets,” premiering tonight at 8 on WCVB (Ch. 5). Clarkson, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles and Robin Thicke each pick two singers to perform with each week

"Men in Black 3," with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, has a nonsensical time-travel theme and has little to recommend it, says Seattle Times movie critic Moira Macdonald, who adds that the franchise seems to have forgotten that it is supposed to be funny.

(Reuters) - Former "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert pushed his fellow "Idol" alum off the top spot of the Billboard 200 chart on Wednesday to score his first No. 1 album with "Trespassing."

Lambert's second studio album sold 77,000 copies in its first week, a significantly lower debut than Underwood's "Blown Away" debut two weeks ago, which sold 267,000 copies to score the top spot on the chart.

"Blown Away" fell to No. 3 this week, behind Adele's juggernaut "21," which added a further 63,000 copies to its phenomenal sales record this week.

Dancing with the Stars": Donald Driver crowned champion

(CBS News) "Dancing with the Stars" is a popularity contest, as much as it has anything to do with dancing.

'American Idol': Tonight's The Night

'[Today] is the last episode of the season and I think we are just really relieved,' finalist Jessica Sanchez says about Wednesday's finale.

The end is finally upon us. On Wednesday night (May 23), someone will be showered in confetti and ultimately crowned the 11th "American Idol" after going head-to-head in last night's final performances.

Will Jessica Sanchez take home the title, finally becoming the first female contestant since Jordan Sparks in 2007 to win? Or will it be Phillip Phillips, whose stage presence is so similar to the last few years' winners, apparently all he needs to do is make the ladies melt with that guitar and he'll be a shoo-in for first place. Regardless, not a lot of people can say they stuck it out this long.

"Of course we all want to win, but it gets to a point where nobody really makes it this far," Sanchez, a.k.a. the tiny girl with the huge voice, said backstage Tuesday night. "I love that I'm with [Phillip] in the top two. It's amazing. He's goofy and he's funny and he is an amazing artist and an amazing person overall."

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