Saved! ‘Idol’ judges prevent shocking cut
4/08/2010 12:59:00 PM
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Lowest vote-getter Michael Lynche stays after panel decides to keep him. Who would've thought favorite Big Mike would not only be in the bottom three, but would be the lowest vote-getter of the week?
Ryan Seacrest promised a surprise at the beginning of Wednesday’s “American Idol” results show. Sometimes that’s a relative term and means, “We’re going to actually end the show on time this week,” or “We spent the extra couple of dollars to make sure all of the microphones work.”
But give him credit — this time he meant what he said.
Michael Lynche the lowest vote-getter? Really, America? I mean, he wouldn’t be my preference to win this right now, or even to make the final, but no love at all?
BRAD Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have hooked up four times since they reconnected at the 2009 Academy Awards.
Sources confirm that Bill Condon is in negotiations to direct Breaking Dawn, which Summit Entertainment now plans to break into two films. Over the last month, the studio met with a high-caliber group of directors that also included Milk director Gus Van Sant and Mean Girls’ director Mark Waters. Sofia Coppola expressed huge interest in the franchise but dropped out after revealing that she only wanted to direct one of the two films. Condon, Van Sant, and Waters met both with Summit and Twilight author Stephenie Meyer.
In its fight against Google, Microsoft is taking dead aim at the search giant's Achilles heel -- that people are frightened of Google's power to invade your privacy. Microsoft has pledged that unlike Google, it won't scan the contents of your email in Hotmail in order to deliver ads. Expect more moves like this from Microsoft. 
Like an annual affair, Jay Chou's decision to release his new album this May has left other singers scurrying to change their own release dates.
Best Buy has sold out of the iPad at all 673 of its U.S. stores with Apple shops. In contrast, Apple stores are maintaining stock. 
Tiger Woods is back on course — for the most part.
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James can agree on at least one thing: They did not make any sex tapes together. 
Sexy A-Team star Bradley Cooper looks totally different when he's not bromancing with costars or flirting with his ladylove.
Interesting. According to Gearlog, AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel has gone on record as saying anyone who plunks down $29.99 per month on its prepaid unlimited data plan for the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G will not be subjected to the carriers typical fair use policy it upholds for other devices. So go ahead and feel free to spend endless days watching and rewatching every single episode of LOST through ABC’s iPad app. If someone from an AT&T call center phones you to complain, just tell ‘em Mark said it was cool.
Although it wasn’t the real deal but everyone must have wanted to see the top two Taiwanese boy/manbands go head-to-head. Jerry Yan took on the task of leading his “F4” against “Fahrenheit” in the battle of the best! He visited the popular variety show Big Party to promote his new photo album 9314 Man & Boy.
On the April 2nd broadcast of Taiwanese talent show competition “One Million Star”, the chubby yet lovable Lin Yu-chun 林育群 graced studio audiences live and Taiwanese audiences on television with his epic delivery of Whitney Houston’s vocally-challenging ballad “I Will Always Love You”. It didn’t come as a surprise when the blogging community and discussion boards started buzzing with praise on Yu-chun’s performance at the time.
Although WebOS was announced lat year as something new and exciting, Palm isn’t doing well at all lately – maybe because it has launched its Pre and Pixi smartphones a bit too late (and only via Sprint for the beginning).
Since Microsoft made available to testers the Internet Explorer (IE) 9 developer preview in mid-March, there have been about 700,000 downloads of it, according to a source close to the situation, who asked not to be identified.
Microsoft execs said last month that the final version of Silverlight 4 would be available in April. It looks like the “launch” date is April 13, though as of April 7, company execs weren’t ready to promise that’s when final code will be available.
With Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 event just over 24 hours away, we thought it might be a good idea to recap some of the most persistent OS 4.0 rumors while addressing a new one here and there so everyone can keep score at home when the event starts tomorrow morning at 10AM PDT. We’ve assembled some of the best and most persistent rumors for your reading pleasure, so hit the break and check them out.
Focus is to appeal to the young social-networking crowd
Korean idol group TVXQ has apologized to fans for ceasing their musical activities as a group in Japan last weekend.
Album: Everyone Bounce
EXPECT to see Robert Pattinson looking a whole lot hunkier in Twilight movie Breaking Dawn.
Two related projects from Mozilla and Google, each with the similar goal of bringing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the Web, appear to be joining forces after a change in Google tactics. 
Celebrity couple Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung are overjoyed when they recently found out that their son Lucas has a high IQ of more than 130, but are still split over whether or not to let him go into showbiz, said Hong Kong media. 