Tim Urban out as "Idol" Raises Millions for Charity
4/22/2010 12:44:00 PM
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Time finally ran out for "American Idol" contestant Tim Urban on Wednesday as Elton John, Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood and The Black Eyed Peas all took to the stage for a fund-raising special benefiting children's, hunger and health charities.Urban's elimination came at the very end of the TV singing contest's "Idol Gives Back" show and followed his uninspired performance of "Better Days" during the show's inspirational song-themed week mentored by Keys.
The more-than two hour special edition of the nation's most-watched show featured a roster of A-listers, opening with a taped appearance by President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, and wrapping up with Elton John singing one of his signature hits, "Your Song."
In between were live or taped appearances by celebrities including Jennifer Garner, Victoria Beckham, Morgan Freeman, Ben Affleck and Sully Sullenberger, the hero pilot who brought his passenger plane to a safe emergency landing in the Hudson River off Manhattan last year.
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We're hearing from all over that a bad McAfee for Windows XP update is causing computers worldwide to shut down. Apparently DAT update 5958 deletes the svchost.exe file, which then triggers a false-positive in McAfee itself and sets off a chain of uncontrolled restarts and loss of networking functionality. Yeah, wild -- Twitter is basically going nuts, and McAfee's support site appears to be down. There are some fixes floating around out there, but it may be too late -- the final tally of borked PCs today may reach into the millions. We've already heard anecdotally that an Intel facility has been affected, as well as Dish Network call centers, and we're sure there are going to be more reports as the day wears on.
Today at Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made what seemed like a bold prediction. Only he didn’t think it was that bold. According to Zuckerberg, there will be over 1 billion likes across the web in the just first 24 hours of the “Like” button. It launches today.
As previously reported, the "Jay Chou The Era Concert" world tour is set to make its first stop at the Taipei Arena on June 11th and 12th. Due to the sweeping ticket sales resulting in tickets being completely sold out on the very first day, an additional show was quickly declared yesterday to be held on the 13th. The tickets are set to start selling simultaneously by various vendors at noon today.
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Last night, S.H.E shared a night of secrets together with Tao Zi and 200 audience members. With alcohol as a catalysis, the barriers in front of their hearts dissolved. Ella openly spoke about her many failures in love. She always impulsively loved someone, "No matter what mistakes they made, I still, regrettably, continued to love the other person." But when the topic moved onto he mother's sacrifice for their family, her tears suddenly started to drop and when speaking about her paternal grandmother -- "[she] is currently in a wheelchair, and doesn't respond to much" -- Ella started crying loudly leading Selina and Hebe to say that she had drunk too much.
After 34 years of hard work in the entertainment industry, things have finally paid off for 55 year old Simon Yam. After winning his first Best Actor trophy from the HK Film Awards several days ago for his stirring portrayal of a benevolent father in <<Echoes of the Rainbow>>, Simon has also won the “Asian Star” award at the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) to be held in June. With his acting talent being recognized once again, plus his new film <<Ip Man 2>> chosen as the opening film for the festival, there is definitely reason for Simon to be happy these days.
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