Clay Mentions Across The Internet Today

Here is a selection of mentions of Clay on the internet today.

New "Best of American Idol" DVD Review

Packaging 'Idol's' high and low notes
Calendar Live

"The Best Of" disc contains some of the more memorable moments, including Fantasia Barrino's "Summertime," Kelly Clarkson's "Respect" and Bo Bice's "In a Dream." It focuses primarily on the top two finalists from each season, so there's lots of Clarkson (the most successful post-"Idol" performer), Justin Guarini, Ruben Studdard, Clay Aiken, Fantasia (she's dropped the Barrino since winning in Season 3), Diana DeGarmo, Bice and Carrie Underwood.

Another review of the same DVD

The good, bad, and inconsolable
Nov. 24, 2005. 01:00 AM
MALENE ARPE
ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER
Toronto Star

There are two new releases featuring compilations of American Cultural Imperialism at its very finest. One wants you to know you're a remarkable human being who can accomplish whatever you set your mind to; the other wants you to know that you suck.

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The 20th Anniversary Collection from Paramount and The Best & Worst of American Idol from Capital, are both different from your run-of-the-mill release in that the sets do not contain any actual episodes (small mercies ... ) but are more like massive collections of extras and highlights and featurettes and, importantly, people who cry a lot.

Both releases are slick and immaculately produced; both tell us uncomfortable things about the quest for fame whether shepherded by good, supportive mommy Oprah or stern, disapproving daddy Simon Cowell.

The three-disc, 9 1/2-hour Idol set, which has Paula Abdul hosting, starts out with a 15-minute overview, just in case you'd been stuck on Pluto for the past five years. The "Best of" disc is chaptered into a "Season 1, 2 and 3" section with "Here Come the Judges," "Auditions," featuring the likes of Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken, "Performances" and music video thingy, "You're a Sta," as well as a very creepy Simon/Paula promo thing called "Cuddles."

Rating ***/*****

Rent movie review from Rent fans "Rent rats" -- comparing Rent fans to Claymates

A "Rent" rat rates the movie version
Denver Post
Say what you want about the film adaptation of "Rent." Pick it apart. Question the characters' motives. Pithily call the movie awkward and forced.

But unless you've seen the musical at least 10 times - a modest number by serious devotees' standards - then your argument carries only so much weight with "Rent" rats.

The beauty of the "Rent" rat is the unconditional love they - er, we - have for the musical. Like a Deadhead, a Parrothead or a Claymate (the latter being a member of the odd group of mostly middle-aged women obsessed with Clay Aiken), "Rent" rats travel with the show, wait in painfully long lines for prime seats, and are willing to forgive the musical for its cheesy indulgences, its overdramatic tendencies, its lackluster, unfinished second act.

Mention in Survivor TV Show recap:

Survivor Guatemala: Recap
Everything Is Personal
By David Mumpower and Kim Hollis
November 25, 2005

Gary Hogeboom isn't going down without a fight, though. At Tribal Council, Judd isn't content to simply vote off his mortal enemy. He wants to be sure to point out what a cheat and liar his chief competitor is before the elimination. Judd eagerly notes that Gary Hogeboom has lied, but gets in trouble when he tries to describe the "lie". Gary Hogeboom had said before that Lydia and Cindy didn't deserve to make it to the end, but he was still willing to form an alliance with them to further advance himself. In Judd World, this is a lie. Gary Hogeboom takes this opportunity to point out that in Our World, a lie is when someone says that the super duper secret immunity idol is hidden somewhere on the ground, when in fact it is hidden somewhere up high. "All right, I lied about the damned idol. Okay." says Judd. What did he say about Clay Aiken? Oh, he's going to get cards and letters!