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Most definitely the American Idol girls are waaayyyy better than the boys and they proved it yet again last night. My predictions to go home: Sanjaya Malakar, Phil Stacey, Antonella Barba, and Haley Scarnato.

It should be interesting to see what happens. I know that Sanjaya has a huge following online amongst the teens but let's face it...it's just not gonna happen with him moving on. Obviously Antonella is nowhere near where a majority of the girls are and hopefully in light of the racy pictures, America made the right choice and did not choose her to move on. But this is American Idol and who knows what will happen.

I'm looking forward to seeing Carrie Underwood tonight as well - she is one of my favorite Idols to date.

Katherine Heigl's response....

Katherine Heigl released this statement late yesterday:

''I am embarrassed that this has become a public matter and disappointed that Touchstone felt it necessary to divulge private employment information. I had hoped I would be able to deal with this issue confidentially with my bosses. I dropped out of the renegotiation simply because I wanted to treat myself with the respect I was not getting from them. No matter how unhappy I am about their decision to respond to this publicly, I continue to be passionate about and committed to this character.''

You go girl! You show 'em what you got and negotiate the hell out of them. Grey's Anatomy would not be the same without you.

Contract dispute between Heigl and ABC

Oh my...

On the heels of a story posted early today that Katherine Heigl (Dr. Izzie Stevens of Grey's Anatomy, duh) walked out on contract talks regarding her salary, ABC issued a statement:

"Katherine is an integral part of Grey's Anatomy and its success. Fortunately, we have a long term contract to ensure she'll be with the show for several years to come. In recognition of her tremendous talent and value to the show, we recently approached Katherine with an offer to raise her compensation significantly above the terms of her current contract. We were surprised to see this gesture reported negatively in the press, and want to reassure fans that she will continue as Izzie Stevens.''

ABC better not screw this up. She is one of my favorite actresses on the show and if she doesn't come back, it will definitely change the whole scheme of things over at GA for me.

Gotta catch up with Days of Our Lives

I definitely love my TiVo but unfortunately I keep forgetting to program it so it doesn't delete all of my Days of our Lives shows. I hardly have the time to watch it anymore. Luckily I've been able to catch up on Soaps.com. There's a daily recap section on DOOL. I've been peeking at the message boards too. Lots of nice spoilers on there, heh heh. I love finding out what's going to happen. I don't like being kept in the dark - you know how the soaps go, they drag storylines on forever. So don't fret if you miss an episode, get your daily fix on soaps.com!

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American Idol - The Boys

Just got done watching AI tonight. I think overall they did much better than last week but there were still some iffeys. Sanjaya still did nothing for me (although my daughter Kaitlyn totally loves him) and I was pretty bored by Nick Pedro. I dunno...something about that guy. I'm just not really impressed by him. I loved Blake Lewis' rendition of Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai. I strongly disagree with Simon's assessment that he thought it was just a copycat performance. Whatever. I'm loving Chris Richardson. Watch out...he'll definitely be one to look out for. Probably one of the only guys to give the women competition. Looking forward to tomorrow night. C'mon girls...show 'em whatcha got!!

Oscars 2007

Here is the list of the 2007 Oscar winners - **denotes the winner.

Best Picture

* Babel
* *The Departed
* Letters from Iwo Jima
* Little Miss Sunshine
* The Queen

Achievement in Directing

* Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu , Babel
* *Martin Scorsese, The Departed
* Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
* Stephen Frears, The Queen
* Paul Greengrass, United 93

Best Actor in a Leading Role

* Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
* Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
* Peter O'Toole, Venus
* Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
**Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best Supporting Actor

* *Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
* Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
* Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
* Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
* Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Best Actress in a Leading Role

* Penelope Cruz, Volver
* Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
* *Helen Mirren, The Queen
* Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
* Kate Winslet, Little Children

Best Supporting Actress

* Adriana Barraza, Babel
* Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
* Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
* *Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
* Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best Adapted Screenplay

* Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
* Children of Men
* *The Departed
* Little Children
* Notes on a Scandal

Best Original Screenplay

* Babel
* Letters from Iwo Jima
* *Little Miss Sunshine
* Pan's Labyrinth
* The Queen

Best Foreign-Language Film

* After The Wedding
* Days of Glory (Indigenes)
* *The Lives of Others
* Pan's Labyrinth
* Water

Achievement in Art Direction

* Dreamgirls
* The Good Shepherd
* *Pan's Labyrinth
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
* The Prestige

Achievement in Cinematography

* The Black Dahlia
* Children of Men
* The Prestige
* The Illusionist
**Pan's Labyrinth

Achievement in Costume Design

* Curse of the Golden Flower
* The Devil Wears Prada
* Dreamgirls
**Marie Antoinette
* The Queen

Best Documentary Feature

* Deliver Us from Evil
**An Inconvenient Truth
* Iraq in Fragments
* Jesus Camp
* My Country, My Country

Documentary Short Subject

**The Blood of Yingzhou District
* Recycled Life
* Rehearsing a Dream
* Two Hands

Live Action Short Film

* Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)
* Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
* Helmer and Son
* The Saviour
**West Bank Story

Animated Feature Film

* Cars
**Happy Feet
* Monster House

Best Film Editing

* Babel
* Blood Diamond
* Children of Men
**The Departed
* United 93

Achievement in Makeup

* Apocalypto
* Click
**Pan's Labyrinth

Best Original Score

**Babel
* The Good German
* Notes on a Scandal
* Pan's Labyrinth
* The Queen

Original Song

**"I Need to Wake Up," An Inconvenient Truth
* "Listen," Dreamgirls
* "Love You I Do," Dreamgirls
* "Our Town," Cars
* "Patience," Dreamgirls

Best Animated Short Film

**The Danish Poet
* Lifted
* The Little Matchgirl
* Maestro
* No Time for Nuts

Achievement in Sound Mixing

* Apocalypto
* Blood Diamond
**Dreamgirls
* Flags of our Fathers
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Achievement in Sound Editing

* Apocalypto
* Blood Diamond
* Flags of our Fathers
**Letters from Iwo Jima
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best Visual Effects

**Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
* Poseidon
* Superman Returns

It's Oscar time!!

I am so excited for this evening's telecast. I don't really sit there in front of the TV for the whole three hours or anything like that, but I love to watch the pre-show stuff - you know - what everyone's wearing, etc. It's funny to me what some of these celebs think as beautiful. Here are some previous "egads what were they thinking?" pics from Oscars past: