‘SYTYCD’: Paula Abdul on the Soul of a Dancer

Last updated on: June 2, 2015 at 3:06 pm By Kate O'Hare

Earlier this year, I headed to the Orpheus Theater to attend the Los Angeles auditions of Fox’s dance-reality show “So You Think You Can Dance,” which launched its 12th season on Tuesday, June 1. After the auditions concluded, the assembled press got a chance to chat one-on-one with the judges, including dancer/choreographer/producer Nigel Lythgoe and dancer/singer/choreographer Paula Abdul. Lythgoe was also previously a producer on “American Idol,” where Abdul was also a judge. As actually happened during the tryouts, the judges... Read more

‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Did Nathan Make It?

Last updated on: June 1, 2015 at 11:22 am By Kate O'Hare

Honestly, I don’t know. But the Fox dance-competition show “So You Think You Can Dance” returns tonight, and the lucky guys and girls from auditions held earlier this year will get their chance to trip the light fantastic. Watch this space for more from judges Nigel Lythgoe and Paula Abdul … Here’s excerpts from a story originally posted on March 30: In modern society, the distinctive aspects of male and female often become blurred, with the unique beauty of each sex... Read more

‘American Genius’ Steve Wozniak, Mac, Myth, ‘Silicon Valley’

Last updated on: September 17, 2024 at 9:35 am By Kate O'Hare

Last week, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called in from Sydney, Australia — where he’s now an adjunct college professor — to talk about the new “National Geographic Channel series “American Genius,” premiering Monday, June 1, which contrasts pairs of great minds and innovators. It starts with “Jobs vs. Gates,” with Apple co-founder (with Wozniak) Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Click here to see part one of the conversation with Wozniak, which addresses the differences and similarities in style belief... Read more

‘American Genius’: Steve Wozniak on Jobs vs. Gates, & Skynet

Last updated on: September 17, 2024 at 9:34 am By Kate O'Hare

Is it possible that we have the Internet of Things — connected devices, appliances, etc., which are able to communicate with us and each other — because the real-world analog of the “Terminator” movies’ Skynet is shooting back messages from the future to control the creation of new technology? During a conference call last week for the Monday, June 1, premiere of the National Geographic Channel series “American Genius” — at look at contrasting minds, which launches with “Jobs vs.... Read more

‘Beyond A.D.’: Millennial Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. on Kim, Kanye and Witness

Last updated on: May 31, 2015 at 4:50 pm By Kate O'Hare

I’ve now been to several tapings of “Beyond A.D.,” the Web companion series to NBC’s “A.D.: The Bible Continues” — which is produced in the auditorium at an ultra-modern Evangelical community north of Los Angeles (whose headquarters is almost entirely devoid of any overtly Christian symbolism) — and I’ve seen Christian actors, musicians, “faith leaders” and pastors. What I have yet to see on the show is a Catholic priest or deacon, or anyone who has strongly identified as a faithful... Read more

Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan: The Real Catholics

Last updated on: May 29, 2015 at 9:10 pm By Kate O'Hare

Whether coincidence, conspiracy, kismet, synchronicity or divine intervention, the trailer for ABC’s midseason comedy “The Real O’Neals” and a sample episode of “The Jim Gaffigan Show” — set to premiere July 15 on TVLand — popped up online at roughly the same time (hurry, it’s only available through May 29). The ABC show, inspired by the childhood of gay activist, sex columnist and apparently deeply disaffected lapsed Catholic Dan Savage, offers a caricatured take on a suburban Catholic family with a panoply... Read more

Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan: The Real Catholics (Part 2)

Last updated on: May 29, 2015 at 9:09 pm By Kate O'Hare

… Jeannie Gaffigan (cont’d — click here for part one): The main thing is, we don’t want to sit here and throw stones at the mainstream, ABC or whatever, because we don’t want to be the type of people that point fingers and say, “Look how bad this is,” or whatever, because that’s not good. That’s not a good thing for us to do. But this is our risk, because we wanted to exactly the opposite of what “The Real... Read more

College a Cappella Group Utterly Transforms ‘Chandelier’

Last updated on: May 28, 2015 at 6:31 am By Kate O'Hare

Take away the creepy quasi-child-porn video, and the song becomes lovely — with nothing but the instrument God gave us, the human voice … Bravo, collegiate singers Twisted Measure from Elon University in North Carolina. Sure hope the a cappella competition “The Sing Off” comes back to NBC! Image: YouTube screenshot Read more

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