'American Idol' pressure mounts on Adam Lambert and Kris Allen
5/19/2010"...as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience."
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point.
THE TENSION MOUNTS: So it ends. American Idol's seaon wraps up this week with the selection of the big winner. (Although, let's face it number two among these guys is sure to punch a ticket to success, too.) Adam Lambert and Kris Allen will duel Tuesday night and Wednesday and you can check Thin Slices both days and Thursday for your AI fix. Today we've got Rolling Stone offering advice to Lambert on what he needs to do to not lose. The blog Foxes on Idol goes on about the show in ways we don't quite understand. And the New York Times is calling the showdown a reminder of, um, Elvis Presley versus Pat Boone. Seriously. (RL)
SAY IT AGAIN, SAM: You know all those famous movie lines you hear quoted all the time? "Play it again, Sam"? "Beam me up, Scotty"? You know, those? Well, they're wrong. Here are the accurate versions, which will arm you to be really annoying when you're at a party and somebody tries to make a point by quoting their favorite line. (RL)
COMIC RELIEF: We all have this dream of digging a bunch of comics or baseball cards out of the attic and finding out they're worth big bucks. Alas, it never happens except for some people who took really good care of their collections.. (RL)
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