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Finally the amazing Kelly Clarkson gave her first tv performance of her new single “Never Again” on The Today Show! I was really excited to check out this performance. First, Miss Clarkson looked great in that outfit. Now, overall it was great performance but wasn’t her best one. Something happened when she was trying to hit the chorus’s notes but the rest was pretty good. I’m happy to see Kelly again doing tv performances and well she has a lot more shows to do and you can CLICK HERE to check out her calendar. Enjoy [Credit: To thesweetescape blog 4 da vid]

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Filming was fun. I went to the set at 12:30 and arranged to have my friend meet me there for lunch. He’s gay and when he saw my wardrobe he said, “No, Honey,” and I trust him implicitly. So we went to the wardrobe trailer and played dress up in crack whore outfits for a few hours, adding more and more cleavage with each change. Gay men know all the secrets of ‘chicken cutlets,’ and double sided tape and things I don’t even want to think about, but I looked ready to feed an infant orphan nation all by myself.

In the scene we filmed, I was watching a girl get raped and trying to intervene. Apparently I was doing too good a job because the other actor couldn’t fend me off and finally asked if he could slap me in the face. Of course I said yes, and he was not kidding. I couldn’t see out of my eye for about an hour so I waited for my vision to come back, stuffed my pie hole with Craft Service, and talked to an actress with a heavy Russian accent. She said, “I have been driving for just a short time and already this year, I have accident with three cars. And all three very brand new, expensive. And all named ‘Mike.” I thought my ears had deceived me, but no. She continued, “They should have a sign to warn me that their name is Mike.”

It would be the only decent thing to do, really. She said, “I just start to cry and they forgive me.” Her eyelashes were so long and she looked so innocent, I don’t see how anyone could resist. I caught myself staring at her tiny body trying to figure out how a person’s elbows could be bigger than their shoulders, but she didn’t join me for quesadillas and sandwiches, so that was probably it.

Fried at the beach with my new friend and were in paroxysms of laughter as we watched a handstand-off between two men in banana hammocks. She thought one of the guys was imitating the other one and making fun of him but I think it was the Swedish gymnastics team taking in a little sun.

A pod of dolphins were nice enough to perform for us as we read Eckhart Tolle and used-car shopped in The Recycler. “I want an ‘07 Beemer with power windows, power doors, and Power of Now!” Eckhart told me that my stalking tendencies were from clingy neediness and I say phooey. Someone should decide if their intentions are pure BEFORE they kiss you. That goes for Dad’s Bags as well, who has suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Had a lunch meeting with a producer a couple of days ago for the flight attendant comedy and as I was leaving, this lady who looked like a beige Cookie Monster, told me she had just spoken to the angels Gabriel and Michael and they wanted her to give me my messages. Piqued, I walked with her “wherever God guided us,” which was uncannily to the ATM and had my crystals read. I had to make wishes out loud, and it was kind of like making a life plan with my accountant, only about spiritual matters. Funnily enough, both my finances and my soul are in shambles. Apparently someone cursed me at birth, and she eradicated it, so I’ve got that going for me. The thing about people who are a few shy is that they so totally believe every word they utter, you start to get swept up in it.

I have another friend who’s schizophrenic. He told me he’s the Chosen One and has been stalked by different incarnations of Mary Magdalene through seven lifetimes and to save the human race, he had to marry a girl and live in Hawaii so he could survive the Los Angeles Tsunami which was scheduled for last September. I only wonder who his bride is because I egged him on for three hours, but a lifetime is just a whole other kind of commitment.

The Houston Chronicle says none of the remaining four contestants on American Idol will find the sort of success Carrie Underwood and Chris Daughtry have found.

Nevertheless, the newspaper has outlined a short profile on the singers performing tonight:

Melinda Doolittle
In her favor: A gigantic but very skilled voice. She shows more control and restraint than singers (we won’t name names) currently making millions.
Not in her favor: There’s still a little of the modest, “who me?” thing, which has been annoying for weeks.
What makes her (not) interesting: She’s a backup singer!
Our odds: Even. Jordin or Blake Lewis could pull an upset, but Melinda has been the one to beat since the show’s first round. Maybe earlier.

Jordin Sparks
In her favor: Good voice, sometimes. It should be said that looks can matter, and she’s the prettiest of the final four.
Not in her favor: Melinda, who has more control over her voice.
What makes her (not) interesting: She’s 17!
Our odds: 3-2. It all depends on her songs. She’s not as crafty as Blake, not as consistent as Melinda and not as capable of rafter rattling as LaKisha Jones. But when she’s on, which is often, she’s good enough to win.

Blake Lewis
In his favor: As the judges have told us time and again, he’s different. (So was Scott Savol.)
Not in his favor: his Elmo-esque “ballad face.” His overused dance spin. He likes (and covers) middling bands.
What makes him (not) interesting: He beatboxes!
Our odds: 2-1. He has an arsenal of smoke and mirrors to distract people from a mediocre voice. He’s easily the worst singer of the four, but it might not matter.

LaKisha Jones
In her favor: When she gets into her gospel-tinged upper register, she can belt it out.
Not in her favor: Melinda and Jordin, both of whom have been consistently better.
What makes her interesting: She has a kid!
Our odds: 10-1. This could be 100-1 too. Barring death or laryngitis striking one of the other three, she’ll go home this week.

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These 2 are starting to look like each other…I love this little couple.. Wedding bells and maybe a bun in the oven soon will be great…

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Late last year I discussed the very first feature film ever made and how it was actually an Australian movie about Ned Kelly entitled The Story of the Kelly Gang.

I opened my email today to find a letter from AFI saying that the film has been painstakingly restored by the National Film and Sound Archive and there will be a screening of the restored footage next week at ACMI in Melbourne (unsure about the rest of the country).

The Story of the Kelly Gang opened in Melbourne on Boxing Day 1906 and went on to thrill audiences across the country. Thanks to meticulous restoration work by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), nearly a quarter of this extraordinary film has now been pieced together and digitally restored by Haghefilm for contemporary and future generations.

Considering it was made 100 years ago and barely any of it had survived over the century, it’s pretty amazing that we will actually be able to see it at all.

The existing parts of the film are to be released on DVD along with an educational guide and book. If you’re at all interested in the history of the film medium then I’d suggest seeking it out. There is a screening, as I said, next week on May 17 at 6.30pm at ACMI including an introduction by those involved with the restoration. I’m not gonna be going, but if you live in Melbourne maybe you should. It’s a complementary screening, after all.

All the details about booking tickets (you must book, don’t just show up) can be found at Metro Magazine.

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Jessica Simpson hit the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala, where her costume was apparently “Vegas Showgirl.”

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