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WED MAY 07, 2008 11:30AM
David Cook is cooking up more than an album these days.
The newly crowned American Idol champ no longer seems unattached as he was captured out on date with season two contestant Kimberly Caldwell by TMZ over the weekend.
And sorry ladies – he hopes there’s more to come.
“I went out on a date the other day with a woman named Kimberly Caldwell,” the 25-year-old ‘fessed up on Live with Regis and Kelly Tuesday morning. “I did [have a good time]. We’ll probably hang out again. So we’ll see.”
The two dined at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and David was caught opening the door to the car for his date after the meal.
A correspondent for the TV Guide Channel, Kimberly, 26, who finished seventh in the second season, met David through her weekly AI coverage. He asked her out on live TV on Wednesday’s night wrap-up.

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“American Gladiators” is back and bigger than ever for its second season. NBC hammered this idea home with the new intro, which featured huge versions of the Gladiators taking on faceless challengers as they towered over metropolises. The events were bigger, the new gladiators were better – NBC is ready to kick the series into a higher gear.
Monday night’s premiere was two episodes wrapped into one, just like last year’s premiere. They teased some of the new events and Gladiators after the opening (Atlasphere is back! However, it was nowhere to be seen in full form last night). Randy; a hyperactive contender with 13 siblings, took on Jay; a SWAT team leader. Their first event was Rocketball, one of the additions this year. Basically, contenders must grab a ball and then push a button that will launch them into the air. In the middle of the arena are two baskets and the challengers will try to get the ball in the baskets – one point for the lower basket and 2 for the upper. Meanwhile, two Gladiators will be launching up with them in an attempt to keep them from scoring. The men did alright, each netting two points.
They moved onto Hang Tough, where Wolf dominated Jay (who made a lame “Lord of the Rings” reference) but couldn’t pull Randy down before time expired. Gauntlet was next, and Jay made use of his larger frame to bust through the course, which has changed since last year - there is no longer a “gate” at the end. Randy got knocked around and was only able to get through three sections. In the Pyramid, big boys Titan and Justice kept the men from scoring.
The new Eliminator has changed for the better. The beginning wall climb is gone, replaced with a longer swim under fire. After the rope net climb, there is a rope swing that looks very difficult before the hand bike. The hand bike section now has a deep ball pit beneath it, so it is no longer a shorter route to just drop. After a new spinning-barrel run, it’s up the pyramid and down the zip line before attempting to keep your balance on a large teeter-totter. Then it’s the menacing travelator before swinging on another rope through a banner and into the water. Randy tackled the Eliminator head on and beat Jay easily with an impressive time of 2 minutes, six seconds.

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By LYNN ELBER – 5 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The grown-up rocker triumphed over the smooth-voiced kid as David Cook claimed the “American Idol” title Wednesday, and it wasn’t as much of a surprise as it seemed.
While the judges all but crowned 17-year-old David Archuleta the night before, the voters decided otherwise — and in a huge and unexpected way. Host Ryan Seacrest said before the results that that the margin was 12 million votes, and it turns out they broke in the favor of the 25-year-old from Blue Springs, Mo.
Cook was overcome with emotion, bending toward the stage after his name was announced. When he stood up, his eyes were filled with tears, the second time in as many nights that the scruffy, grainy-voiced belter had broken down.
“This is amazing,” he said. “This is all your fault,” he added, addressing his brother, Andrew. The story goes that Cook was only tagging along with his sibling to the “Idol” auditions to lend support, and wound up getting on the show.
To close out the show’s sevent season, Cook immediately took the microphone and began to sing “Time of my Life,” a midtempo rocker by Nashville singer/songwriter Regie Hamm, winner of the annual “Idol” songwriting competition.
Cook refused to bow to the conventional during his three-song set Tuesday, with Collective Soul’s “The World I Know” as his pick for a closing performance. He also sang U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and the power ballad “Dream Big,” his choice from the songwriting competition’s non-winning finalists.
“If I had to choose between playing a song that not a whole lot of people know that I could get behind, or the opposite, I’ll choose the lesser-known every time,” Cook told The Associated Press backstage Tuesday.

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Gavin DeGraw describes himself as a singer-songwriter but he says it with a sour expression. That’s because these days that term evokes a sensitive pretty-boy image, while DeGraw’s ideal would have a bit more gravel and gravity, along the lines of Kris Kristofferson.
“That’s exactly how I view it,” said the 31-year-old artist, whose self-titled sophomore album debuted this week at No. 7 on the national sales chart after selling more than 66,00 copies in its first week of release. “Right now there are a lot of young men who are singer-songwriters who have this image that is a little softer than I like. I’m more comfortable with men who act like men and make music that reflects that.”
The rock-inflected “Gavin DeGraw” gives the singer his first trip to the Top 10, and his path has, like so many music stars today, been paved by television more than radio. The South Fallsburg, N.Y., native first cut through when his song “I Don’t Want to Be” was selected as the theme song to “One Tree Hill,” and his songs have popped up repeatedly on “American Idol.”
“The era of a Wolfman Jack picking up a song and making someone’s career by bringing it to a radio audience, that’s just not happening anymore,” DeGraw said. “Now you have to find different routes to your audience, and television and the Internet are the ones that seem to be working.”
That approach is working for veterans as well: Neil Diamond, boosted by his recent visit to “American Idol,” saw his latest album, “Home Before Dark,” sell 146,000 copies to claim the No. 1 spot on the chart — the first time the 67-year-old star has reached that top slot on the tally.
Also debuting this week: Toby Keith’s double-disc “35 Biggest Hits” at No. 2 (103,000 copies sold) and Clay Aiken’s “On My Way Here” at No. 4 (94,000). Josh Groban, Dierks Bentley and Luis Miguel also debuted this week with new albums, taking positions 8 through 10 on the chart.

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All three editions of American Idol — the performance show, the results show and the “Gives Back” show — wound up in Nielsen’s top ten ratings for last week; however, the total number of viewers who tuned in to watch them was significantly lower than last year’s count during the comparable week. But then, the total TV audience was down significantly as well, as the aftereffects of the recent writers’ strike continued to linger. Idol’s Tuesday-night show topped the list with a 14.2 rating and a 22 share, followed by the Monday-night edition of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, which posted a 12.8/20. A new episode of CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation followed in third place. For the week, CBS retained the ratings crown with an average 6.6 rating and an 11 share. Fox followed in second place with an average 6.1/10. ABC placed third with a 5.3/9, while NBC trailed with a 4.3/7.
The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research:
1. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 14.2/22; 2. Dancing With the Stars, ABC, 12.8/20; 3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 12.5/19; 4. NCAA Basketball Championships (Kansas vs. Memphis), CBS, 12.1/20; 5. American Idol (Thursday), Fox, 12.0/19; 6. Dancing With the Stars (Tuesday), ABC, 11.1/17; 7. Idol Gives Back (Wednesday), Fox, 10.4/16; 8. Desperate Housewives, ABC, 10.3/15; 9. Without a Trac e, CBS, 9.7/16; 10. NCIS, CBS, 8.8/14.

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Tonight on American Idol when it was Carly Smithson’s turn, I was excited. She has always been one of my favorites. She picked a Queen song. After a few minutes of her singing, I wanted her to stop. It was probably a really bad song choice. I was shocked. It was supposed to be an inspirational song and she looked and sounded like she was angry. I always liked how she sang in the past so I was pretty disappointed.
She has always been one of my favorites but after this performance, Carly Smithson might be out. I think that she was actually the worst one tonight. Even if she gets kicked off this week, I think she will have a career. It was pretty bad though. All the others decided to bring their game tonight but she went down. I really thought that she would be in the final two but after this American Idol, I don’t know. If she does stay, she will really have to bring it on. It’s getting close to the end so the others’ will be trying really hard.
Carly Smithson is still one of my favorites but I have a few. I don’t think she is going to make it to the final two though. I have an idea or two that are very good chances. I usually can pick the winner every year but this year has been really difficult for me. This year American Idol had the most talent. The show is finally getting better.
Do you think that she will be voted off of American Idol this week? If she stays, do you think that she can come back after that performance? Do you think that Carly Smithson deserves to stay in this competition? I am curious as to what you all think. There can only be one winner. I don’t think that she will be that one but she will still have a career. We will see what happens on Wednesday.

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Tonight on American Idol when it was Carly Smithson’s turn, I was excited. She has always been one of my favorites. She picked a Queen song. After a few minutes of her singing, I wanted her to stop. It was probably a really bad song choice. I was shocked. It was supposed to be an inspirational song and she looked and sounded like she was angry. I always liked how she sang in the past so I was pretty disappointed.
She has always been one of my favorites but after this performance, Carly Smithson might be out. I think that she was actually the worst one tonight. Even if she gets kicked off this week, I think she will have a career. It was pretty bad though. All the others decided to bring their game tonight but she went down. I really thought that she would be in the final two but after this American Idol, I don’t know. If she does stay, she will really have to bring it on. It’s getting close to the end so the others’ will be trying really hard.
Carly Smithson is still one of my favorites but I have a few. I don’t think she is going to make it to the final two though. I have an idea or two that are very good chances. I usually can pick the winner every year but this year has been really difficult for me. This year American Idol had the most talent. The show is finally getting better.
Do you think that she will be voted off of American Idol this week? If she stays, do you think that she can come back after that performance? Do you think that Carly Smithson deserves to stay in this competition? I am curious as to what you all think. There can only be one winner. I don’t think that she will be that one but she will still have a career. We will see what happens on Wednesday.

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American Idol’s feel good show, Idol Gives Back took up 2.5 hours of our schedule today. Naturally the show was full of “Give Now” videos, some stupid, some funny, many mercifully brief. Somehow this had the feel of a Jerry Lewis Telethon, just slower, longer, and more boring. But it’s for a good cause so we’ll put up with it.
This recap is going to be extremely brief and feature little in the way of opinion. We opened the show with an awesome performance by the American Idols singing “Please Don’t Stop The Music” and featuring the dance stylings of the So You Think You Can Dance crews. It was a great way to start out.
We will naturally have tons of “give now” videos. The first three featured Jimmy Johnson, George Lopez and Kylie Minogue. Maria Shriver was actually at the theatre with a pimp for volunteering (which is a good thing I might add). Ben Stiller tried “humor” in his video. I don’t like stupid humor so I didn’t find him funny. We then got a video about clean water featuring lots of gas cans.
Snoop Dogg and Charlie Wilson performed a song that I assume is called “Can’t Say Goodbye” as rap songs usually have unimaginative titles (which I like). They performed with the Snoop Youth Football League swaying in the background.
We were treated to videos from Kobe Bryant and Triple H (who is funny). Then Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul introduce a video about poor children in California being helped by an organization called Save the Children.
The next cute moment features Carrie Underwood, Terri Hatcher and that guy from Desperate Housewives (don’t watch the show, sorry), Terri tells Carrie that if Carrie steals her husband she will steal her song. Then Terri comes out and sings “Before He Cheats” and does a decent job (though she should keep her day job). Carrie comes out clapping and tells her she did a nice job.

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Greg Monroe was named the 2008 McDonald’s Player of the Year. Monroe, the nation’s No. 1 player according to Scout.com and Rivals.com, leads the West team. The Georgetown commitment is joined by Luke Babbitt (Nevada), Demar DeRozan (USC), Larry Drew (UNC), Michael Dunigan (Oregon), Jrue Holiday (UCLA), Scotty Hopson (undecided), Brandon Jennings (Arizona), Malcolm Lee (UCLA), B.J. Mullens (Ohio State), Iman Shumpert (Georgia Tech), and Willie Warren (Oklahoma).
leads the nation’s No. 1 high school team, St. Anthony (
The ACC lead for all conferences with eight recruits, followed by the Pac-10 with five. The Big East has four and the Big 10 has two. The SEC, Big 12, and WAC all have one.

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of Truth’ without ‘Idol’
Top new Fox reality show averages a 4.1 in 18-49s
By Toni Fitzgerald
Roughly a third of last week’s audience for “The Moment of Truth” didn’t follow the new Fox reality show to its new, earlier timeslot last night, but even a diminished “Truth” had no trouble winning its timeslot and remaining the night’s No. 2 show behind its former lead-in and new lead-out, “American Idol.”
“Truth” averaged a 4.1 adults 18-49 rating at 8 p.m., according to Nielsen overnights, off 33 percent from last week’s 6.1 average at 9 p.m. behind “Idol.”
But “Truth” still easily won its timeslot, finishing 64 percent ahead of No. 2 “Deal or No Deal’s” 2.5 on NBC. The lie detector show also pulled a solid 10.4 million total viewers, bettering “Deal” by 194,000 viewers to win the timeslot.
“Truth,” the season’s top-rated new show, may have proven it can stand alone, which is always a concern for shows that are launched behind “Idol,” the No. 1 show on broadcast. “Truth” also averaged a decent 3.6 rating on a Monday night two weeks ago, where it aired in a one-time shot with “Idol” expanding to 90 minutes.
Fox led the night among viewers 18-49 with a 7.1 average overnight rating and a 19 share. NBC was a distant second at 2.6/7, ABC third at 2.1/6, CBS and Univision tied for fourth at 1.8/5, and CW sixth at 1.3/4.

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