Rewind: Top 6 'American Idol' performances

We live-blogged Tuesday night's "American Idol." The theme was nation music, with a singers selecting songs from a Shania Twain songbook. Shania served as mentor.

5:00 - "This ... is 'American Idol!'"

5:07 - Having a small technical problems though we goal we can work them out. we don't consider I've longed for any singers nonetheless ...

5:17 - Oh man. FAIL! Sorry. I'm behind in time to locate last few seconds of Michael Lynche's performance.
Randy: "Very good."
Ellen: "It felt similar to Luther Vandross singing which song."
Kara: "I suspicion it was great which we didn't shift it too much. Great job."
Simon: "I suspicion a opening was a small bit wet. A small bit girly for you."

This will be an interesting night because I'm not familiar with a Shania Twain catalog during all.

5:25 - Casey James is up next. (I contingency have longed for a opening thespian of a night. Wonder who it was?) He's singing a strain "Don't." Shania says she's missing a small of Casey's confidence. He's sounding similar to Eddie Vedder again. No electric guitar again - usually a acoustic. we can't contend this is genuine thrilling, though it will do. He pronounced he would move something new tonight, though I'm not sure.
Randy: "One of a many appropriate Casey performances ever."
Ellen: "Beautiful. we consider it was your many appropriate performance."
Kara: "You were vulnerable, we were raw, as well as that's what we need to do."
Simon: "I agree this is probably your many appropriate performance. It didn't feel similar to somebody else's song."
[Guess we longed for a boat upon this one.]

5:36 - Crystal Bowersox is next. She's definitely got a nation vibe down with "No One Needs To Know." she pronounced she's singing it for her boyfriend. Once again, not genuine exciting, though I'm not certain it's Crystal's fault.
Randy: "I suspicion it wasn't my a one preferred from we ! though w e liked it."
Ellen: "You're brilliant though it wasn't my a one preferred performance."
Kara: "It was believable."
Simon: "Shocker: We don't similar to Crystal this week. we suspicion it was limp. we suspicion a strain was a small some-more fogettable. It was a usually week when we didn't similar to your performance."

5:44 - So I've found out which Lee DeWyze went first tonight as well as sang. "You're Still The One." Early opinions have been mixed. And Michael Lynche's strain was "It Only Hurts When I’m Breathing."

5:46 - Aaron Kelly is up next. Shania's perplexing to build up his confidence. He's singing "You Got A Way." He's got a strong vocal, though this is nonetheless another snoozer upon nation night. Somebody abate up! During a judges' comments he pronounced he was singing a strain for his mom. Awww.
Randy: "I consider we did a unequivocally great job."
Ellen: "The volume of tension we had was impressive."
Kara: "It was similar to we unequivocally felt it."
Simon: "You struggled a last few weeks, though tonight, we were similar to a different artist."

5:55 - Siobhan Magnus is singing "Any Man of Mine." Shania says she needs to move this strain to life. Well, Shania you've strike a nail upon a head - it's been tough for Siobhan to unequivocally get into a songs she sings for this show. In this case, she pulls off. It was a many fun as well as lively opening of a night, as well as a vocals were fine. So during slightest a uncover closed upon a fun note. She even got to strike her freakishly tall note during a end!
Randy: "I desired it!"
Ellen: "Good way to finish a uncover - fantastic."
Kara: "Guess who's back? Siobhan."
Simon: "I suspicion a strain was perfect. The screaming during a finish competence have gone upon a bit long. It was similar to someone was giving birth. But it was good."

What did we consider of tonight's performances?

My ranking i! s pretty elementary this week:

Siobhan Magnus brought it! Her's was a usually memorable opening we saw.

Casey James, Crystal Bowersox as well as Aaron Kelly usually punched their time cards with nothing special.

I couldn't rate Michael Lynche or Lee DeWyze because we longed for their performances.

I'm anticipating for something some-more sparkling subsequent week!

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Ailing Bret Michaels diagnosed with another malady

LOS ANGELES —

An already bum Bret Michaels has been diagnosed with another medical malady. After suffering a brain hemorrhage final week, a audacious 47-year-old glam-rock being TV star has grown a side effect that causes seizures, according to a matter posted Tuesday upon a former Poison frontman's website.

The condition, called hyponatremia, stems from a miss of sodium. The matter did not prove if Michaels had essentially suffered any seizures.

Michaels was unwavering as well as in critical though stable condition in a complete care section of an undisclosed hospital.

The matter pronounced he was remaining certain as well as responding well to tests as well as treatments.

"Even yet currently was a teenager setback, doctors remain carefree for a full liberation as well as plan to recover some-more specific information subsequent Monday," it said.

Michaels, a competitor upon "The Celebrity Apprentice," suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage, that causes bleeding in a fluid-filled spaces around a bottom of a brain. He was rushed to a sanatorium upon Friday with a serious headache.

"Doctors state Michaels is really propitious as his condition could have been fatal," according to a statement, that was also provided by Michaels' New York-based publicist Joann Mignano.

"With serve contrast as well as rehabilitation, they have been carefree that Bret will gradually urge as a red blood surrounding a brain dissolves as well as is reabsorbed into his system, that can be a really unpleasant liberation as well as take several weeks to months," a matter said.

Michaels was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes during age 6. He had an puncture appendectomy April 12 after angry of go through heedfulness before he was scheduled to perform in San Antonio.

A matter posted upon his website after a surgery pronounced it had "taken a toll," though doctors approaching him to have a full recovery.

On Donald Trump's rival being show, "The Celebrity Apprentice," Michaels ! has serv ed as a single of a season's most outspoken celebrities as well as has so distant avoided being fired in a boardroom.

Before fasten a show, Michaels starred in VH1's strong being dating array "Rock of Love" for 3 seasons.

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On a Net:

Bret Michaels, http://www.bretmichaels.com/

"Celebrity Apprentice", http://www.nbc.com/the-apprenticale/

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Art world remembers artist Jeanne-Claude in NYC

NEW YORK —

Members of a art world collected Monday to recollect "The Gates" co-creator Jeanne-Claude as a passionate, uncompromising creative force who fought tirelessly to move giant art projects to fruition with her father Christo.

"I've had a respect of meeting many artists in my life, but Jeanne-Claude was maybe a many passionate, a many meticulous as well as a many impervious to a word 'no,'" New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg pronounced to a crowd. "She was a kind of singular as well as colourful artist who comes around only once in a lifetime."

More than 5 million people saw "The Gates," that arrayed 23 miles of Central Park's footpaths with thousands of saffron drapes. It was "a massive celebration of life, color as well as a creative spirit," Bloomberg told those attending a commemorative during a Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"The Gates" as well as alternative large-scale "wrapping" projects around a creation were a product of Jeanne-Claude's marriage as well as partnership with Christo. They met in Paris in 1958 as well as had collaborated for 51 years upon temporary open arts projects when Jeanne-Claude died in November during age 74.

"It was an inseparable partnership of art as well as love," pronounced John Kaldor, who concurrent their square "The Wrapped Coast" in Australia. "Born upon a same day, two people as one. They built upon any other's success as well as strengths."

Their functions were in vast partial due to Jeanne-Claude's conspicuous organizational acuity, pronounced architecture critic Paul Goldberger, who spoke of a endless official battles a integrate were required to take upon to get capitulation for their projects. "The Gates" was twenty-six years in a making.

"She knew that each project was a marathon, as well as she was rebuilt to run a full course, however prolonged it took," Goldberger said. "She focused upon a little details, as well as in so doing, she freed all a rest of us to applaud a many extravagant, glorious gestures."

All a couple's projects required huge manpower as well as miles of fabric as well as alternative materials. At a time of her death, Christo vowed to go upon their current work "Over The River, Project for a Arkansas River, State of Colorado" as well as "The Mastaba," a project in a United Arab Emirates. On Monday, he was between those during his partner's memorial.

A male who answered a phone call to a number for Christo pronounced a artist wasn't accessible to criticism upon a memorial.

The span pronounced they never supposed any sponsorship as well as financed all their temporary installations by a projects themselves. They sold their basic drawings, collages, scale models as well as strange lithographs.

"Christo as well as Jeanne-Claude have shown us what happens, what you can achieve, when you let go of a constraints that connect us as well as embrace the very best ideas," pronounced Elizabeth Broun, Smithsonian American Art Museum director. "They show us what it means to live utterly freely, in debt to no patron, no sponsor, no beliefs as well as unequivocally recognizing no management in the lives beyond the own moral compass as well as personal vision."

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Associated Press Writer Ula Ilnytzky contributed to this report.

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Amy Winehouse bruises ribs in fall at home

LONDON —

Amy Winehouse is being treated for painful ribs during the London hospital after falling during home.

The essence diva's orator says Winehouse additionally suffered the cut upon top of her eye after she tripped as well as fell during her north London residence upon Saturday.

Spokesman Chris Goodman said Tuesday that the 26-year-old singer is recuperating during the private clinic, as well as is expected to be fine.

Winehouse shot to stardom with the Grammy-winning manuscript "Back to Black" in 2006, though her song has been overshadowed by drug use, authorised run-ins as well as the vigourous marriage that ended in divorce last year.

Goodman says she has been recording new material with producer Mark Ronson.

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