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Babyboo
Member
06-16-2003
| Friday, May 06, 2005 - 7:13 pm
Possible, makes sense to me.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Friday, May 06, 2005 - 8:24 pm
I just watched CNN's Showbiz Tonight with Corey, Carmen and Trenyce on there. They kept referring to the fact that AI has "blackballed" them in the industry. What is that all about? Wouldn't it make sense for AI to want them to succeed? If it were just Corey saying it, I would kind of dismiss it as his just using the wrong term for something - but Carmen said, "Corey that isn't just you that is all of us" and Trenyce agreed. Hmm, maybe there is the real AI scandal.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 06, 2005 - 8:54 pm
You know, even today Audrey Hepburn looks completely contemporary and hot. But who's the middle aged vixen in the red dress? I don't have any idea who she is.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, May 06, 2005 - 9:28 pm
My tongue was firmly in my cheek when I typed "Oy" 
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, May 06, 2005 - 9:34 pm
Loretta Young?
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, May 06, 2005 - 11:30 pm
It looks like Loretta Young. I am thinking her, then Myrna Loy, then Maureen O'Hara(always a stunner), and Audrey. The Journey thing did it for me. Thats when I started believing him. My sister is a Journey fanatic and was shocked to see Randy Jackson in the group. I doubt Corey knew that. And the way Paula jumped on that tidbit during judging did look like she was waiting to say it. I believe him wholeheartedly. I also believe he is doing it for publicity, but thats a give in. I think his feelings and ego were hurt when she dumped him after he was thrown off. She didn't have her dressup doll to play with anymore so she wasn't interested. That'll mess with any young kids mind when he thought he was on top of the world. He probably thought she'd see him through that whole mess. If Simon was caught doing all this with some cute 22 yr old girl, I think there would be more outrage. Its shocking to me because we usually attack the women for being with younger guys and the older men are safe from ridicule but for some reason, I think Simons doing this would cause more backlash. Maybe we take him more seriously as a judge, therefore we would take his manipulating the system more seriously. He would look like a perverted casting couch director. Just speculation on my part.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 1:04 am
Yup, that's Loretta Young. I used to watch The Loretta Young Theatre in 10th grade after school! (It was the same year I took Drama and played tiny parts in a couple shows. Miss Young cast herself in almost every show, of course. I always marveled how she looked so different in every role.) And the rest are right, Fab! (I'm always surprised when someone recognizes Myrna Loy.) Okay, back to the topic at hand. You know how short our (the public's) attention span is. Thinking Paula can simply wait for the 'next event' (in our geopolitical world or in the entertainment world) to shove her out of this nightmarish spotlight so she can strut her semi-star status in a bit dimmer light. (Not very charitable, am I?)
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Carrie92
Member
09-15-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 2:34 am
Alisons - in response to blackballing... I don't know if these people expected help in getting their careers promoted or what, but if they didn't win, they shouldn't be allowed to rest on AI's shoulders to promote themselves. That said, it is possible that something is going on to make sure that the albums put out by AI winners aren't getting any competition from the "losers". However, you can get Diana DeGarmo's CD at the AI store, and she didn't win, so... I think it's more likely the ousted contestants are expecting too much, and perhaps think a little too highly of themselves and their talent.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 3:49 am
Ah, Loretta Young. Now see, we just don't have scandals the way they used to. Loretta was a very young, very single, very Catholic missy back in the thirties when she encountered a very married Mr. Clark Gable. Clark I think was married to an older financial patron. Loretta proceeded to get knockers, disappeared for a year or so, showed up back in Hollywood still single and childless, starred in a few more movies then adopted a little orphan girl from a Catholic convent. As the kid grew up, she developed ears like a bat, bedroom eyes and a million-watt smile. Her mom stuck to the adoption story just about til her deathbed in the late '80's or early 90's, even though the kid had heard back in her playground days that Loretta was her real mother and Clark Gable was her father. I don't think Loretta ever admitted it publically, but if you've ever seen her daughter she is the spit and image of Clark Gable. I mean, good times. Paula and Corey? Ppppptttthhhhh!!!! Appalachian League.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 4:10 am
Yep Goddess and she looks like both of them.

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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 4:42 am
OMG, she does look like both of them! Maris, is that you? I am just so fascinated by Trenyce's mystic monologues - it is sort of like a latter day version of the Navajo code talkers. I know there is something there but I can't.....quite....
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 5:01 am
I remember when she starred in General Hospital way back when and the rumors were all over the place about her being Gable's daughter. I read her autobiography and she didnt find out out till her thirties the truth. Gable did come to the house when she was a young child but she never knew who he was, just thought he was a nice man. Kind of sad. You have to admire Loretta Young. It must have been very tough.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 6:20 am
Aw...isn't this sweet!!! Stop picking on Paula, sez Corey By ADAM NICHOLS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER 'She didn't do nothing but have sex with someone. Everybody has sex. They should keep her.' - Corey Clark on Paula Abdul "American Idol" cad Corey Clark got a massive fame boost by trashing Paula Abdul. Now he's telling the show's producers to leave her alone. "I don't want to hurt her," Clark, 24, told the television show "Extra" after the Fox network announced it was investigating his claims that she helped him advance in the competition. "She shouldn't get fired. "She didn't do nothing but have sex with someone," Clark said. "Everybody has sex. They should keep her." But it appears Clark may indeed have put Abdul's position as a judge on the show in jeopardy by spilling the beans to a TV audience of nearly 14 million Wednesday night. Fox promised an investigation into Clark's claims to ABC, including that the singing star bought him clothes, gave him a cell phone and picked songs to impress other judges. "We have concerns about the motives behind . . . the [ABC] news special, as much of it was filled with rumor, speculation and assertions from a disqualified contestant who admitted during the special to telling lies," a Fox spokesman said. "Regardless, we are absolutely committed to the fairness of this competition. We take any accusation of this nature very seriously." Clark was not impressed. "I don't have any interest in helping 'American Idol' out whatsoever, because they haven't helped me out," he told ABC's "Good Morning America." "I think they should look at what I was trying to say, which was that [Abdul] risked so much to help me avoid the exploitation of the machine called 'American Idol.' " Abdul remained silent yesterday. It appears Clark's tell-all is already paying off. His single "Wiggle 'n' Shake" became a top seller on music-distribution Web site Wraptor yesterday. He is also selling a tell-all book, "The Sex, Lies and Paulatics of one of America's Idols," through the site. Clark challenged Abdul to deny his accusations. "I will take a lie detector and Paula, if you want to come down . . . and take a lie detector test with me . . . I will sit down with you," he told CNBC last night. Clark was thrown off the series in 2003 after it was discovered he lied about having no criminal record. Clay Aiken, who came in second that year, raced to Abdul's defense and told CBS' "The Morning Show" that even if Clark is telling the truth - which he doubts - she is "just an amazing asset to the show. I believe the show wouldn't be the same without her." Originally published on May 5, 2005 http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/story/306937p-262580c.html
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 8:24 am
Wow on the Loretta Young story! Thanks for sharing. I never knew that! Her daughter is beautiful and does look like both of them (can't see her ears--ha--but that smile and those eyes)! Times were different, I know, but so sad that she felt she had to hide that 'secret' from her daughter for so many years. 'Living a lie' out in the open must have required some fancy mental gymnastics. Alisons, you crack me up! LOL on the Navajo code talkers! (A cartoonish image of a big plate of knotted spaghetti came to mind as I read her post. Where was her 7th grade English teacher?)
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 8:38 am
Life imitates art - remember when I said that Constantine should join Paula on SNL this weekend? Apparently he was asked but AI nixed it. Still, I am going to watch this puppy and see what is up. Thanks Herck, I live to serve! 
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 9:36 am
Hope someone spoils the show! (I will be in Brooklyn with my dd, dh and Herc--celebrating Mother's Day--hopefully at some comfortable, relaxed, and dog-friendly place!!)
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 9:45 am
I will definitely post what goes down but I can't promise realtime as I am over 40 and will likely fall asleep! 
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 10:04 am
LOL - Alisons - re: Trenyce... so many words, so few thoughts! I think Bo might have something to help you stay awake tonight! 
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 11:02 am
that picture of Loretta Young looks more like this woman who used to play on the soap opera, The Doctors (I think that's what it was called). My grandmother used to watch The Edge of Night, and The Doctors came on right afterwards
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 11:08 am
I don't know where my other post went, but... I googled "The Secret Storm," because I realized that the soap, "The Doctors" was wrong. I believe that picture is of Judy Lewis, who played on The Secret Storm. If you google her, she is supposedly the daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 12:05 pm
This is from Media Life Magazine. Pretty much sums up the aftermath of the "American Idol sex scandal that isn't..." I have posted the first & last paragraphs of the article, but follow the link - it's a good read. Why no one cares about Paula's tryst Or the 'American Idol' s#e*x scandal that just isn't By Toni Fitzgerald One day after the ABC special “Fallen Idol” was supposed to scandalize the nation, the nation issued a collective yawn and moved on. The big scandal that was supposed to have caused so much trouble for Fox and for its No. 1 show, the alleged affair between “American Idol” judge Paul Abdul and 2003 finalist Corey Clark, has become very much a non-story. Never mind all the convincing evidence ABC marched out to make its case. Only 13.8 million people bothered to watch the special, barely half “Idol’s” audience that night. “Idol” itself got almost no boost from the controversy. Perhaps more significant, the online message boards, which light up at the slightest hint of controversy, all but ignored the ABC report. The continuing buzz over who should win buzzed on, unabated. What talk there was of the scandal was calmly pro-Paula. Even Fox, which never fell into a scandal it couldn’t turn to its own advantage, seemed ready to dismiss the controversy with a smartly worded statement yesterday that promised an investigation but in language that essentially ensured that no investigation would ever take place. ... Truth is, the audience likes Abdul and wants to believe the best about her. And most of all, they want to keep their focus on the interesting and compelling contestants. Judging from Clark’s performance on ABC’s “Primetime” and “Good Morning America” and CNBC’s “Donny Deutsch” yesterday, he's the loser in an odd way in all this, a doofus who lost as a contestant and didn't have the good sense to move on in his life. And even he says Abdul should stay. “She didn't do nothing but have sex with someone. Everybody has sex. They should keep her,” Clark told “Extra.” Watching him prattle on about Abdul’s irresistible bod and how he really needed to get “this 900-pound gorilla” off his chest, the biggest question became: Is Paula such a fool that she’d risk a great gig to help this guy? In the end it will not matter. Unless another former contestant pops up with the same claims, and many were already rushing to Abdul’s defense, Abdul’s not going anywhere. “Idol” got some relatively harmless publicity, and ABC got a small sweeps bump. But two weeks from now no one will even remember Corey’s last name. In the end, as ABC's news producers surely must have realized, their story lacked tragic figures in the dramatic sense. The characters, including Abdul, are bit players, and they were only diminished as the story unfolded. May 6, 2005 © 2005 Media Life LINK
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 12:24 pm
I agree with the article
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 12:48 pm
me too. something about that kid rubs me the wrong way. did he really think they wouldn't "investigate" after that interview and evidence? but, no, he wasn't trying to get her in trouble....just trying to get the "gorilla off his back" and get it out? yeah, can't he do like the rest of us and tell our friends and or family? he had to get the gorilla off his back on national tv? i'm sure it had NOTHING to do with the publicity he'd get. (eyeroll) whatever. i hope he falls flat on his face with his cd and book, both.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 12:54 pm
Yes, I guess I should add that the article covers all the bases for me. The more I see of Corey, the less I care about him. And he would have to be able to gain a lot of sympathy for any sort of groundswell to mount that would result in Paula's demise. As Meredith said on The View yesterday regarding Corey & the scandal, "Shut Up, already!"
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 12:59 pm
the only reason the show wasn't a scandalous surprise was that we all heard about it for weeks and there was nothing new in the show itself. no 3-ways, no illegitimate offspring, no drunken orgies at neverland.... just the same stuff they more than hinted at in commercials and spoilers. i still say the only 'wrong' is that paula was a judge and they aren't supposed to have individual contact and meetings over what to sing, how to dress, how to do your hair, etc. to try and get to the next level.
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