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[brvheart]

Paula is gone.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b137736_pa...=rss_topstories

[grocery_mony]

If the show had any integrity she should have been gone after banging a contestant

[king_tanner]

I will miss her incoherent arguments with Simon.

I kind of hope Kara comes back now because her fights with Simon are more real, they actually get pissed at each other.

The only way the show loses ratings because of judges is if Simon ever left, but honestly I'd still watch the show if Simon wasn't there. I don't think he is worth that ridiculous amount of money he is getting. I'm not saying I don't enjoy what Simon does, I just think he doesn't deserve the pay check of an oil tycoon.

[Pot Odds RAC]

Didn't see this before bumping my own thread.

If it really was her own decision (even in part) to leave, it has to rank in the Top Ten of all time poor career decisions. Where else is she going to get any exposure/mega-bucks?

[FCP Bob]

I will miss her incoherent arguments with Simon.

I kind of hope Kara comes back now because her fights with Simon are more real, they actually get pissed at each other.

The only way the show loses ratings because of judges is if Simon ever left, but honestly I'd still watch the show if Simon wasn't there. I don't think he is worth that ridiculous amount of money he is getting. I'm not saying I don't enjoy what Simon does, I just think he doesn't deserve the pay check of an oil tycoon.

Part of the reason that they pay Simon so much is to keep him from starting a competing show which he could do in an instant.

[brvheart]

Part of the reason that they pay Simon so much is to keep him from starting a competing show which he could do in an instant.

If he doesn't have one of these, then Fox and American Idol are the stupidest corporations in history.

[Mercury69]

"You just...You brought yourself out and...your performance...you made it your own"

Add clasped hands and meaningful tilt to the head.

I will not miss Paula. I hope they get rid of Jackson next. He's just as useless:

"Dawg...that was a HAWT one!" or "Pitchy" or, at his most negative, "It was goooood, but it didn't really DO it for me"

****ing horrific.

[CaneBrain]

If he doesn't have one of these, then Fox and American Idol are the stupidest corporations in history.

It's like a Jake Peavy situation.....if you are THAT good, you can insist on a contract that does not have a non-compete clause (or the equivalent for a baseball pitcher is having a no-trade clause in your contract).

[brvheart]

"You just...You brought yourself out and...your performance...you made it your own"

Add clasped hands and meaningful tilt to the head.

I will not miss Paula. I hope they get rid of Jackson next. He's just as useless:

"Dawg...that was a HAWT one!" or "Pitchy" or, at his most negative, "It was goooood, but it didn't really DO it for me"

****ing horrific.

I really dislike Randy quite a bit. He said that Kris singing Falling Slowly was pitchy the whole way through... and I instantly knew that Randy didn't know what 'pitch' was.

[CaneBrain]

I really dislike Randy quite a bit. He said that Kris singing Falling Slowly was pitchy the whole way through... and I instantly knew that Randy didn't know what 'pitch' was.

Randy sucks for so many reasons......his ongoing "pitch" commentary is like reason #312.

[Mercury69]

I really dislike Randy quite a bit. He said that Kris singing Falling Slowly was pitchy the whole way through... and I instantly knew that Randy didn't know what 'pitch' was.

Randy sucks for so many reasons......his ongoing "pitch" commentary is like reason #312.

And we're not slagging his body of "real" work as a bass player or producer, but it's simply ridiculous to get paid to judge such a hig profile show and use a vocabulary of 3 or 4 words to do it with.

[Gallo]

Paula>>>Randy AINEC

[FCP Bob]

If he doesn't have one of these, then Fox and American Idol are the stupidest corporations in history.

It's like a Jake Peavy situation.....if you are THAT good, you can insist on a contract that does not have a non-compete clause (or the equivalent for a baseball pitcher is having a no-trade clause in your contract).

I don't think non-compete clauses are common in the entertainment industry. I doubt anybody would have one that says if they don't sign a contract extension that they can no longer be on TV and even if they did it probably wouldn't be enforceable.

[solderz]

I don't think non-compete clauses are common in the entertainment industry. I doubt anybody would have one that says if they don't sign a contract extension that they can no longer be on TV and even if they did it probably wouldn't be enforceable.

It wouldn't be.

[ajs510]

They should really just have Simon, whoever the guest is that week (Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, whatever), and a revolving cast of music industry insiders and/or well respected professional musicians (Steve Albini, Butch Vig, Brendan O'Brien, Berry Gordy, etc, etc, etc) on the panel.

[brvheart]

One of the Spice Girls may replace Paula

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...rican-Idol.html

[keith crime]

They should really just have Simon, whoever the guest is that week (Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, whatever), and a revolving cast of music industry insiders and/or well respected professional musicians (Steve Albini, Butch Vig, Brendan O'Brien, Berry Gordy, etc, etc, etc) on the panel.

Steve Albini on American Idol might constitute the apocalypse

[brvheart]

I don't think non-compete clauses are common in the entertainment industry. I doubt anybody would have one that says if they don't sign a contract extension that they can no longer be on TV and even if they did it probably wouldn't be enforceable.

Not being on TV wouldn't be the same as making the exact same product for another company.

[FCP Bob]

Not being on TV wouldn't be the same as making the exact same product for another company.

Non-competes in the entertainment industry are just far too restrictive to be practical and my guess aren't enforceable. What you're saying is that producers should make their actors sign a non-compete that means they can't act in another sitcom for example when their current contract expires. It's just not realistic.

[El Guapo]

Non-competes in the entertainment industry are just far too restrictive to be practical and my guess aren't enforceable. What you're saying is that producers should make their actors sign a non-compete that means they can't act in another sitcom for example when their current contract expires. It's just not realistic.

It worked with the cast of Friends and Seinfeld.