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Why Is Nigel Lythgoe Leaving ‘American Idol’?
Lythgoe announced yesterday that he's vacating his lucrative, easy position as 'Idol''s executive producer, for some crazy reason.
Posted 08/05/08 in Vulture : Apropos of Nothing
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: America Votes for Someone Competent, Makes History
The couch potatoes of America continually eat the wrong foods, buy the wrong cars, and elect the wrong politicians. Which makes it really nothing short of a miracle that after 16 million votes, they picked the right winner for So You Think You Can Dance.
Posted 08/17/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: New York Represents
You’d have thought a biased New York bookie had plotted last night’s show:
Posted 08/16/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Secret Elimination
Since Hollywood is a town full of blabbermouths, the show took drastic measures to guarantee the confidentiality of last night’s results.
Posted 08/14/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: No Mercy
We’re fixated on Nigel’s teeth, Mary’s upper lip, and the crotch shots in the opening credits. Oh, wait. We’re supposed to be watching the dancers!
Posted 08/09/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: America Wrong, As Per Usual
We’ve got a grudge with America now.
Posted 08/03/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Karma Police
Granted none of the dancers inspire religious devotion this season, but last night’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance illustrated timeless proverbs of karmic retribution nevertheless.
Posted 08/02/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: All Apologies
“Art should be allowed to make statements,” Nigel proclaimed. But in America we also expect our artists to apologize for doing so shortly thereafter.
Posted 07/27/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Why Does Wade Robson Hate America?
The unsung accomplishment of So You Think You Can Dance is how it fuses two of reality TV’s great traditions: the physical rigors of Survivor with the talent pageantry of American Idol.
Posted 07/26/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: What We've Learned
The final ten have been chosen which seems a good time to review the ten things we’ve learned so far about the contestants, the show, and life in general.
Posted 07/20/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: No Uglies
After listening yet again to producer Nigel Lythgoe’s incessant talk of personal growth and the journey, we’ve begun to suspect that Oprah is a silent backer of this series.
Posted 07/19/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Overdosing on ‘Hairspray’
Even if Cedric had slapped on tap shoes and hoofed it up à la Savion Glover, he couldn’t have danced himself out of the hole he’d dug over the last few weeks. That elimination was inevitable.
Posted 07/13/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Down With Tyce D'Orio!
As the producers prodded the dancers to reveal the complex psyches behind their personas, we learned such scintillating facts as Lauren likes to pretend she’s Asian and Dominic thinks every foreign accent is French. Maybe this is the show’s way of reminding us that you can dislike the artist but still like the art.
Posted 07/12/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Jessi Should Have Stayed In the ICU
After that dreadful Lion King ripoff at the beginning of last night's So You Think You Can Dance, we Googled choreographer Tyce D’Orio to see what relevant credits, if any, he has to qualify him for creating “Broadway-style” routines. We found Tyce had a single credit on the Great White Way: He was an associate choreographer on the flop Beach Boys musical Good Vibrations. Enough said.
Posted 06/29/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Oh, God, You Devil!
Pasha and his creepy maternal stand-in.Courtesy of Fox Last night, Jesus krumped. It may not have been technically biblical, since it was only the reality-show dancer who goes by that name, but following that fun, funky opener with Sarah, the...
Posted 06/28/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: The Puerto Rican Edition
As axed contestant (good-bye, Faina) after axed contestant (so long, Jimmy) proclaims how memorable, how life-changing, how important his short time on So You Think You Can Dance has been, you start to wonder how much of the canned responses are scripted in advance.
Posted 06/22/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: So Emotional, Baby
From the looks of it, there’s been an internal shift on So You Think You Can Dance: Ballroom routines are now judged on showmanship; hip-hop ones get critiqued for technique.
Posted 06/21/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Patriotic Undergarments Do Not a Champion Make
Fallen hero Ricky Palomino. Courtesy of Fox Sometime between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. last night, the clatter of jaws hitting the floor was heard in apartments of unabashedly enthusiastic So You Think You Can Dance fans citywide as Ricky...
Posted 06/15/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: You Call Those Choreographers?
Finally. The top twenty dancers have been announced, and tween girls and middle-aged gay men citywide breathe an excited sigh of relief. This season, which contestants end up on the chopping block tonight (and which must dance to survive) will have more to do with who got saddled with bad choreography than who’s got that extra something.
Posted 06/14/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Fifteen Seconds of Solid Gold
All in the family: Danny Tidwell (Travis Wall’s adopted brother), Faina Savich (Stanislav’s sister) and Lacey Schwimmer (Benji’s sister). Courtesy of Fox Within the first ten minutes of last night's episode, the judges had canned a dozen contestants, sans commentary,...
Posted 06/08/07 in Vulture : Overnights
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