So ''U-Turn'' becomes a showcase for the filmmaker's terrific arsenal of visual mannerisms and free-association imagery. Neither of them is really capable of anything plain.
Stone winds up treating his story's sin-soaked connivers the way Francis Ford Coppola treated vampires. Shot in a hurry (42 days) with a big cast and a smallish budget ($20 million), it tells a relatively unencumbered tale of greed, lust and the usual etceteras, a story in which sooner or later someone is bound to offer a business proposition with the caveat: ''It's gotta look like an accident.'' However simply he approaches this familiar milieu, Mr. Eastern time on Fox.''U-Turn'' is a steamy film noir anomaly in the never dull, ever-checkered career of Oliver Stone.
"American Idol" returns next Tuesday at 8 p.m. Girls Jen Hirsh Hallie Day Skylar Laine Hollie Cavanaugh Shannon Magrane Haley Johnson Elise Testone Erika Van Pelt Chelsea Sorrell Baylie Brown Jessica Sanchez Brielle Von Huegel Here is your "American Idol" Season 11 Top 24, America:īoys Adam Brock Deandre Brackensick Eben Franckewitz Chase Likens Jeremy Rosado Creighton Fraker Joshua Ledet Reed Grimm Phil Phillips Heejun Han Colton Dixon Aaron MarcellusĪnd either: Jermaine Jones, David Leathers Jr., Richie Law or Johnny Keyser But remember, David's one of the four guys who has another chance to get back in the game. and 15-year-old Eben Franckewitz, with Eban making the cut. The remaining male slot was a contest between David Leathers Jr. The three remaining girls - Hollie Cavanaugh, Ariel Sprague and Shelby Tweten - all went to see the judges together, with only Hollie making it through. The most dramatic eliminations came toward the end, when only one male and one female slot remained. Magrane, "But…" His wife, Shannon's mom, then cut him off, saying, "It was funny! It was hysterical!" "Everyone told me to wring his neck," said Mr. Her dad Joe Magrane, a former Major League Baseball pitcher, was on hand Thursday night to tell Ryan Seacrest how he felt about Steven's comment. Skylar was afraid she wouldn't make it through because Chelsea Sorrell, another country singer, had already been selected, but she was chosen.īeautiful 16-year-old Shannon Magrane, who Steven Tyler famously described as "hot, humid and happening" - in front of her father - also made it through. Scott Dangerfield, a returnee who left the show during Hollywood Week last year but who we barely saw on camera this year, got cut.Īlso making it through were Jeremy Rosado, Chase Likens, Hallie Day and Skylar Laine, the country singer who Jennifer said reminded the judges of Reba McEntire. Also making it through were several contestants who had been cut in past seasons, including Deandre "Milli Vanilli Hair" Brackensick, Aaron Marcellus and Hollie Cavanaugh, a British girl who famously melted down in her audition last year. The cliffhanger over the fate of Adam Brock was resolved: he made it to the top 24. Here's what else happened on Thursday's show: The returning contestant will be revealed next week, with the boys singing on Tuesday and the girls getting their turn on Wednesday. Johnny Keyser, the kid to whom Jennifer Lopez said at the end of his first audition, "You know you're going to be a star, right?" 17-year old David Leathers Jr., the pint-sized smooth-talker who sounds like a young Michael Jackson. Gentle giant Jermaine Jones, whose elimination earlier in the night was the most emotional send-off of the broadcast.
The four contestants who are vying for the extra slot include: The other shocking moment that happened was the announcement that the judges had decided to reinstate one previously-cut male contestant, resulting in a boys Top 13, instead of the usual Top 12. Hey, what better way to celebrate the fact that the season's Top 24 contestants had been chosen?īut wait - make that 25. First, judge Steven Tyler stripped down to his skivvies, mooned the camera - his naked booty obscured by an "American Idol" logo, of course - and then went for a swim in the water surrounding the stage in the Le Reve theater at Wynn Las Vegas, as Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson looked on, incredulously.
Two shocking things happened at the end of Thursday night's installment of "American Idol".