NJ Star-Ledger: Don't Watch "Best Of American Idol" DVD

NJ Star Ledger article on why we should not watch Clay and Kelly and Ruben, etc on the new American Idol DVDs coming out on Tuesday... Hmmmm... not a totally negative column, but it is a pointless one. Abridgement provided below.

'Idol' fun at others' expense
Sunday, November 20, 2005
BY STEVE HEDGPETH
Star-Ledger Staff

"The Best & Worst of 'American Idol': Seasons 1-4," (Capital Entertainment) Three discs. $34.98.

Some of these kids are just tone deaf and dumb.

If you buy the three-disc "The Best & Worst of 'American Idol': Seasons 1-4," skip the first, "best of" disc, with Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino and Carrie Underwood -- the winners, respectively, of the first four seasons of the Fox series -- runners-up Justin Guarini, Clay Aiken, Bo Bice and others.

Go directly to disc two, the "worst of" compilation. That's where the real action is, a perp walk of self-deluded singer after singer committing musical crime after musical crime, then compounding matters by insisting they were wronged.

Talented singers such as Clarkson et al. have always had a TV forum to prove themselves, whether "The Original Amateur Hour," a first collection of which appeared on DVD last week, or "Star Search."