# American Idol 2/13--Hooray for Hollywood! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045 "2007-02-13T18:22:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/1 "2007-02-13T18:22:38Z")
That screwy, ballyhooey Hollywood! ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/2 "2007-02-13T19:00:17Z")
_Yaaaaaaay!_ And I am getting the _best_ Valentine’s Day presents this year, too. Not only has my husband promised to let me watch “unmolested” tonight and tomorrow, but _he also let me take the batteries out of his Wii remote_, just to prove how serious he is about it. Now that, my friends, is “twu wuv.” Go … somebody! (No favorites yet.) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/3 "2007-02-13T20:21:11Z")
Sounds like a good man, **rockle** …my husband watches with me, but then he wants to flip around other channels during the commercials and he doesn’t get back right on time. Grrrr! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/4 "2007-02-13T21:47:51Z")
My 10 favorites in no particular order: [Sanjaya Malakar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub9dkNhjkdA) [Lakisha Jones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMtB8dT6zVU) [Paul Kim](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKPsDuFXXIc) [Jimmy McNeal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZ6x0GfXCI) [Baylie Brown](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWAiPTSa0Q0) [Alaina Alexander Brandon Rogers Brian Miller](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QU9-UIq5BI) [Sundance Head](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2BJcCNM13M) [Chris Richardson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZLzup0lVss) ============================= The only one I really cannot stand. Please eliminate her immediately. [Katie Bernard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-vNImoIUo) ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/5 "2007-02-13T22:19:05Z")
My favorite part of Hollywood round is that you can watch the whole thing, and then realize you never even saw one of your favorites from the audition shows, because they got cut right away. Talk about manipulative TV. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/6 "2007-02-13T22:31:20Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Sounds like a good man, **rockle** …my husband watches with me, but then he wants to flip around other channels during the commercials and he doesn’t get back right on time. Grrrr! [/QUOTE] Yes, he’s a keeper. I’m sure there’s a catch, somewhere, but I’ll be damned if I can find it. Yet. But I’ll find it eventually, have no fear. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/7 "2007-02-13T22:46:06Z")
I’m excited! No more _really_ bad auditions. I don’t have a favorite yet - but I’d like to see that one guy - is it Sundance Head? - do well. He’s from near here. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/8 "2007-02-13T22:57:19Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] My 10 favorites in no particular order: [Sanjaya Malakar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub9dkNhjkdA) [Lakisha Jones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMtB8dT6zVU) [Paul Kim](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKPsDuFXXIc) [Jimmy McNeal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZ6x0GfXCI) [Baylie Brown](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWAiPTSa0Q0) [Alaina Alexander Brandon Rogers Brian Miller](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QU9-UIq5BI) [Sundance Head](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2BJcCNM13M) [Chris Richardson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZLzup0lVss) ============================= The only one I really cannot stand. Please eliminate her immediately. [Katie Bernard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-vNImoIUo) [/QUOTE] That’s a pretty good list (and a cool idea to link to the auditions because I’d never remember any of them by name.) I’d take off Lakisha because her daughter doesn’t want her to go and, well, she’s only three. In her place I’d put it quirky opera singing young girl from NYC. I’d take out Bailey and replace my own eye candy-- Sexy McJailbait. Brandon Rogers out because I didn’t really like his voice and Pedi-Cab girl in because I liked hers. But besides that, I totally agree. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/9 "2007-02-13T23:31:04Z")
Does LaKisha’s daughter really not want mom to go? I got the impression that the daughter was crying because mom was crying. If mom had been jumping up and down happy, daughter would have been jumping up and down happy too. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/10 "2007-02-13T23:39:51Z")
I assume Idol pays for air fare and lodging for the Hollywood contestants. Is that right? Do they have to live together in the same hotel(s)? I read the Wikipedia article and looked at the website but didn’t find anything about the logistics of travel and housing. ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/11 "2007-02-13T23:49:54Z")
I also agree that the list is missing a Sexy McJailbait. Pretty much my only concern for the entire season of American Idol. And when I get his name, I’m going to claim him as all mine for the entire season. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/12 "2007-02-13T23:58:23Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] I assume Idol pays for air fare and lodging for the Hollywood contestants. Is that right? Do they have to live together in the same hotel(s)? I read the Wikipedia article and looked at the website but didn’t find anything about the logistics of travel and housing. [/QUOTE] I always understood that they house them in hotels during the winnowing process, and ensconce the final 12 in a large estate/mansion in the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/13 "2007-02-14T00:19:46Z")
Who the heck is Sexy McJailbait? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/14 "2007-02-14T00:31:08Z")
Only two hours of AI this week, but next week has **five hours**. Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/15 "2007-02-14T00:35:47Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Who the heck is Sexy McJailbait? 😕 [/QUOTE] The 16-year-old black man (kid?) with the great cheekbones who looks like a famous model. Damn but I can’t think of the model’s name. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/16 "2007-02-14T00:45:54Z")
[Jenry Bejarano](http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2007/01/jenry_bejarano_.html) who looks like [Tyson Beckford](http://www.freewebs.com/zuluo/tyson%20beckford.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/17 "2007-02-14T00:53:48Z")
[Tami Gosnell, the pedi-cab girl (Youtube)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJXpA7arVpg). Maybe not the best voice technically, but I love this girl. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/18 "2007-02-14T01:11:23Z")
That was brutal. Imagine flying all the way to Hollywood and then told to go home in two seconds. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/19 "2007-02-14T01:12:09Z")
How did Perla get through? She sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045/20 "2007-02-14T01:30:13Z")
Both hyped military people out in the first round? I guess the war really, really isn’t that popular. Oh, and I forgot about Zit boy. And Jesus bin Laden made it through! Yay! Today I’m in the livingroom sitting in front of the computer. Sorry for the fingertip diarrhea. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-2-13-hooray-for-hollywood/392045.md?page=2)