- Seal and wife Heidi Klum had their second child yesterday. Though only a few hours old, the boy is already pleading with his father to knock it off with movie-soundtrack crap and get back in the studio with Trevor Horn. [
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- If you woke up this morning thinking, "Boy, it's been a while since the British press hyped up a story about which the rest of the world could give two shits," then it's time for you to get up to speed on the Oasis-Westlife chart feud. [
Guardian UK]
- Finally, singer Anita O'Day—who collaborated with the likes of Gene Krupa, and whose substance-abuse history earned her the unwanted nickname "The Jezebel of Jazz"—died yesterday at the age of 87. [
AP]
Idolator
Welcome to our second night of live-blogging the American Idol finale, two hours of spectacle leading up to the crowning of a David as the favorite pop singer of this very phone-equipped nation. I'm watching the TV Guide Channel's preshow, which has Kimberly Caldwell screaming a lot and Justin Guarini laughing dumbly a bunch and Janice Dickinson saying that she's in the tank for Archie too. (For that the producers denied Danny Noriega a ticket? Hmph.) Also, apparently Simon Cowell told Justin Guarini that it was a draw while I was on the phone?! Looks like someone saw our poll! Coverage begins after the jump...
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