Haley Reinhart sings Alanis Morissette’s ‘You Ought Know’
But from the start of the song, it looks like we might be watching Haley in reverse this week. Where for the past two weeks, she improved dramatically between her first and last songs, she obviously struggles with this one. The band’s anemic arrangement doesn’t help her, but she struggles with the wordy B section, which isn’t in her comfort zone, range-wise at all. Fortunately, she rescues the performance with two stellar choruses. This was almost a great choice for her — but she and Jimmy Iovine did better than the judges.
“Those were some amazing choruses by you,” Randy says, though he acknowledges that she had rhythmic problems with the verses. Yeah, and Randy has vocabulary problems with the judging.
“There’s nobody that can match you” in the choruses, Jennifer says. “I think we all heard the same thing in the middle parts.”
Britney Spears Debuts Video for ‘Hold It Against Me’
The video for Britney Spears’s new single, “Hold It Against Me,” premiered Thursday night at 9:55 p.m. ET on MTV and on the Web.
And Britney fans should be pleased! The pop star looks as delicious as ever as she writhes around futuristic settings in microscopic shorts and red, sequined shoulder pads.
The best part of the video, which was directed by Jonas Akerlund, is a full-action fight sequence with edgy camera work against jumpy bass riffs. (The worst part is all the product placement!)
‘Fringe’ season premiere review: ‘She’s our Olivia now’
Grace be unto you and peace, Fringe admirers, Cortexi-fans, and Frewbies; the third season of the great parallel universe saga has finally made itself manifest. The episode entitled “Olivia” was both superb and surprising. After last season’s slam-bang, two-part “Over There” finale, I expected the producers to do one of two things: offer either another sinuous sensory overload to match that finale, or a let’s-build-our-base, Beginner’s Guide To Fringe catch-up episode.
Instead, we got something different: A beautifully emotional hour with suspense, humor, and kissing. And 98% of it took place Over There, in the world where our Olivia is being held captive by Walternate and his minions. (I’m going to pause here to savor the first time in months that I’ve typed out the term “Walternate.” It feels mighty right.)
Miley Cyrus Says She Never Reads ‘Anything That’s Bad’ About Herself
‘Can’t Be Tamed’ singer says her team protects her from ‘the bullcrap that people write about me.
Miley Cyrus is certainly growing up. As the 17-year-old expresses her growth on her new album, Can’t Be Tamed, she’s been criticized by some who say she’s trying to be too old too fast. But the Disney star has a message for those who may not approve of her: She doesn’t read what you have to say anyway.
“I try to think of really just the positive things. My family, we’re only allowed to have 10 channels basically at our house, because we don’t want to see any of that stuff,” she told MTV News on Friday, days before celebrating the release of her album with a concert in L.A. to be live-streamed on MTV sites. “So the people that are around me, they bring me the good things, and I never see anything or read anything that’s bad because it’s never e-mailed to me by my manager or publicist or whoever.”
Cyrus claimed to be deliberately ignorant of any gossip or negative talk about her. “That’s the job of the team that I have around me: to make sure that those things aren’t talked about,” she explained.
Bon Jovi Rock ‘American Idol’ With ‘Superman Tonight’
‘The harder we work, the luckier we get,’ Jon Bon Jovi says of group’s continued success.
With Casey James and Lee Dewyze cleared to the top three and the fates of “American Idol” hopefuls Michael Lynche and Crystal Bowersox hanging in the balance, New Jersey rock band Bon Jovi flew to the “Idol” stage to provide a brief moment of respite from the audience’s nervous anticipation.
Bon Jovi performed a blaring rendition of “Superman Tonight,” the second single from their 11th studio album, The Circle. In the past, frontman Jon Bon Jovi has described the song as “something like a diary of the observer, and I’m just the fly on the wall,” providing a suitable context for the musician’s role on Wednesday night’s (May 12) “American Idol”: While Bon Jovi himself is used to taking center stage, even his rocking presence couldn’t fully alleviate the crowd’s anxiety over who would be going home next, an unfortunate distinction that ultimately fell upon Lynche.
Following the end of “Superman Tonight,” Ryan Seacrest spoke with Bon Jovi, lead guitarist Richie Sambora and the rest of the band’s roster to congratulate them not just on their performance, but on their status as “the #1 touring band in the world [and] another #1 album.”
Classic Hollywood: 100 years of Robin Hood movies
The legend of Robin Hood is firmly entrenched in British folklore — an archer and swordsman who, with his band of merry men, robbed from the rich and gave to the poor during the early 12th century in Nottinghamshire’s Sherwood Forest. Originally portrayed as a commoner, Robin’s image changed so that he was later thought of as a nobleman who lost his lands and was cast out as an outlaw.
The earliest surviving ballads telling his story are dated to the 15th century or early 16th century. And, of course, Robin Hood has long been a cinematic favorite, dating back to 1909′s silent “Robin Hood and His Merry Men.” With Russell Crowe playing the hero in Ridley Scott’s new version of the adventure, “Robin Hood,” opening Friday, we take a look at a few of the actors who would be Robin.
Tom Rinaldi reacts to Tiger Woods’ first interview since accident
PALM HARBOR, Fla. — An executive with Transitions Optical was not pleased Sunday night that Tiger Woods’ first interviews may have upstaged the PGA Tour event his company sponsors at the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club.
While Jim Furyk was on the 18th green, two putts away from his 14th career PGA Tour victory, five-minute interviews conducted with Woods aired on both ESPN and the Golf Channel.