Thursday, April 3, 2003

"SCUMMY": The Hot Button's David Poland, whom I've rarely seen worked up on these issues, on American Idol and race:
I said it last time and I’ll say it again… the American Idol competition has an ugly racial element. This week, along with the scummy move of removing a competitor and not removing any contestants after putting the show’s viewers through the regular ringer, both black female contestants were in the bottom three. Virtually any objective analysis would put them both in the top half of the eight contestants. Last year, two black women singers – one of whom is now guesting on Fox’s Boston Public – were eliminated before clearly inferior performers.

I’m not a big fan of crying “race.” And I don’t know if there is a way to get more black people to watch the show or to get more white people to vote for people regardless of race. But while neither of these two young ladies seems likely to make the Top Two, they both seem to deserve the Top Five. And based on this week’s voting, it looks like both will be gone in the next three weeks.

Unfortunately, given Josh Gracin's bizarre level of support from the voters, he's probably right.

Poland's other hot story of the moment? Vin Diesel wants to play Sky Masterson in the upcoming 'Guys And Dolls' remake. Yikes.

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