Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Local "American Idol" contestant Mikalah Gordon is "lucky she’s alive" after being assaulted during a robbery at gunpoint at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, her mother said.Gordon, 18, was taking a break from recording music when a man pointing a gun approached her and a male friend, Gordon’s mother, Victoria Cavaricci, said Wednesday. Three other men came up, and Gordon was ordered to lie on her back on the sidewalk.Gordon, who was 16 when she reached the finals of the 2005 "American Idol" competition, told her mother that her head was slammed on the sidewalk by an assailant who was angry that she had looked at his face.As her assailants groped her, Gordon had a panic attack that may have saved her, Cavaricci said, adding, "She thought she was going to die." "She’s scarred and scared, but it could have been so much worse," Cavaricci said. "Police said she’s so lucky she’s alive."Las Vegas police spokesman Bill Cassell confirmed that the robbery occurred. The police are still investigating it, he said.Cavaricci gave the location as near Nellis Boulevard and Washington Avenue. The robbers got away with a cell phone and $5 in cash, she said. Gordon was putting together songs she planned to sing this weekend at a benefit in Orange County, Calif., for kids with cancer.

Norm Clarke 

"American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks has sued a Tennessee music producer to halt the online distribution of songs the grey-haired crooner recorded five years before copping the reality TV crown. In a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Alabama, Hicks charges that William Smith recently sold three of his songs via Apple’s iTunes music store. In an interview, Smith told TSG that after Hicks auditioned for him, he recorded the songs (which Hicks had written) in June 2001 with the help of Nashville session musicians. Smith said that he subsequently shopped the songs to 15 different labels, but none were interested in signing Hicks. Last month, Smith informed Hicks’s attorney of his plans to market one of the songs, "The Fall," on iTunes, noting that "anything in his past that would reflect negatively upon him will stay there" as long as 29-year-old performer did not "go negative" against him. When asked if his July 24 e-mail was a veiled threat geared to forestall a copyright lawsuit, Smith denied that it was a "blackmail attempt." Smith said that he would not seek to hurt the performer’s reputation, adding that he has previously turned down five-figure tabloid offers to speak about Hicks’s sexuality and his prior drug use. "Taylor was a young musician, so you can imagine what he was involved in," said Smith. In response to Hicks’s complaint, Judge Virginia Emerson Smith yesterday signed a temporary restraining order barring distribution of the songs by Smith (who has yanked the titles from iTunes). Hicks’s first post-"Idol" recording, "Do I Make You Proud," landed atop Billboard’s Hot 100 list upon its June release and Arista Records is scheduled to release his album in November.

Smoking Gun 

What is up with the two Birmingham, AL American Idol winners being all sue happy.

Constantine Maroulis, a finalist in the 2005 season of television’s "American Idol," may soon join the cast of Broadway’s The Wedding Singer.MTV announced on Aug. 22 that Maroulis would join the show on Sept. 8. No specific role was mentioned. A production spokesperson said Maroulis is in negotiations.The New York native was among the top 12 "Idol" contestants in 2005. He was voted off the show on April 27, 2005.The Wedding Singer stars Stephen Lynch as Robbie Hart and also features Richard Blake, Kevin Cahoon, Felicia Finley, Rita Gardner, Matthew Saldivar and Amy Spanger.

Playbill 

Wow some B-Lister is going to Broadway and it is not for Chicago.

In one word this movie is PAINFUL. Do not watch it. I watch all those movies on Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network and I hated this film. Yes I admit that I am not a fan of Fantasia, but I have seen other autobigraphies of people I don’t like and liked their movies. This was just bad. The acting was horrible, the story did not flow, the editing was choppy and it just looked cheap. I found myself wanting to fast foward through most of the movie because I was so bored out of my mind. And Fantasia’s speaking voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard for me.
The lies with promoting this movie. The opening scene in which she was told to quit American Idol is denied by Fox. I remember when she was on Idol there was very little backlash of her being a teenage mom. And then all I have been hearing is how her daughter came out of rape, but if you watch the movie her ex-boyfriend was the father. I am sure there are more lies, but I just don’t care.
The best part of the movie is the PSA after the movie with Fantasia campaigning National Center of Family Literacy.
Are her 15 minutes up yet? 

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