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Jane Carrey, no longer an 'Idol'

Jim Carrey’s Daughter Doesn’t Make the Cut on American Idol, Surprisingly (Video)

A lot of times it feels like we know too much about the children of celebrities. Like Blue Ivy Carter is only a month old, and we already know how many nannies she had, how much her birth cost, and that there's a strain of weed named after her. But sometimes the children of famous people stay out of the spotlight, waiting for the right moment to reveal themselves to the world. (Lily Atkinson, we're waiting for your starring role!)

Such was the case with Jim Carey's daughter, Jane Carrey, who is currently auditioning on American Idol, because she doesn't want to trade on her family name and wants to "make (her) place in the world," without people pressuring her to be better because her dad was in Dumb & Dumber, because under pressure, we learn, Ms. Carrey tends to choke.

Which is exactly what happened when she made it past the first round of Idol.
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Beyoncé’s Strategy of Bifurcation

Beyoncé's fourth album, 4, is to be released in June, and she has thus far begun promoting two singles, fast and slow. This was the same strategy she pursued in fall 2008, promoting her album I am... Sasha Fierce, a double album devoted to the concept that she really loved ballads but excelled at dance Read More

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American Idol 2011: An Appraisal. Or, J.Lo Can You Go?

This season of "American Idol," its tenth, began as it needed to, with an introduction to its new judges, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez (who join game-hardened veteran Randy Jackson). But did it have to be so lengthy? Minute after minute was devoted to a montage of TV-news gossip about potential new judges from last Read More

The Last Critic

Copy This, Baby: Nothing’s Unique In the Age of Google

A few years ago, I found myself on the giant playground known as the Google "campus" in Mountain View, Calif., speaking to a small group of Google employees about, among other things, originality. I tried to make what I thought was a pretty unoriginal point.

The culture, I suggested, rewarded successful copying and ignored Read More

Translating the Fox Press Tour

The Television Critics Association summer press tour came to a close on Monday with the Fox executive session, which meant only one thing: Deflections about American Idol. Peter Rice and Kevin Reilly, prepare to be translated.

On the rumors of American Idol deals with producer Nigel Lythgoe, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler

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The Price of Free

For the past few years, media buffs have been waiting for the elusive answer to a simple question: When is what’s on TV going to really start acting more like what’s on the Web? It’s a two-part question, really, and the answer isn’t nearly as clear as you might think.

The first part has to do Read More

Dear American Idol, I Already Miss you!

So, we have our winner on American Idol: Kris Allen. At a certain point, midway through the incredibly-long-seeming two-plus-hour finale last night, I began to get a feeling this was the way it was going to go down, and then it went. Sigh. Ever since that terrible Gokey mess got voted off, I told myself Read More