Stacy Jenel Smith has answered your questions with the candor and industry perspective I’m so proud we have here, and she took the time to mention, “This was fun, and I have to say I’m impressed by the obvious intelligence and savvy of your readers.”
The Beck/Smith Hollywood website is always fascinating (http://becksmithhollywood.com) because of the [...]
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A quick bit about the business of American Idol… as we’ve discussed, Simon Cowell’s contract doesn’t come up until next year (in 2005, when he settled with Simon Fuller, the creator of AI, in connection with The X Factor, he agreed to participate through AI9 and that’s why his company Syco basically has the first [...]
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Your questions and Tom O’Neil’s answers were great, and we’ll have more special guests coming soon. This month has been a blur with multiple international deadlines but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. I can only imagine what Adam’s month has been like :) I’ve been following and reading your thoughtful messages and [...]
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Tags: AI Rules and Release Form, Crawl Thru Fire, Monte Pittman, New CD, On With The Show
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Here are answers to your nymichael.com questions from Tom O’Neil; hope you find them interesting and informative. To make it simpler, here are questions and answers together. Tom mentioned he had lots of fun answering them and we’re planning more guests in the near future. I hope you’ll join me in saying thanks to Tom [...]
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It was pretty surprising about Susan Boyle (and for those that asked, Britain’s Got Talent charges people to vote… “Each phone vote costs 50p from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may be higher and from mobiles will be considerably more.15p from each phone vote goes to the Royal Variety charity, The Entertainment Artistes’ [...]
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Here’s an outstanding and thoughtful interview with Adam you really need to see. Idolatry EW Interview (direct to interview and it will automatically load each part): http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid24451091001?bclid=24395203001&bctid=24448789001. In part 4 (it will keep loading automatically) Adam talks about his vision for his album and it basically follows the blog posts and your messages…
Adam’s had preliminary [...]
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