Tidbits 2/25

• From Hippoga at The Clayboard - She posts the following abouit a televised TV Guide special:

  I just saw this post by Corabeth at the Clack House:
  I just switched to the TVGuide special and Clay was being covered. Almost all old footage, with some ATDW footage but they did have some Spamalot footage too. They mentioned his record success, his UNICEF ambassadorship, his fans and his Spamalot work.

  You can download this special called, TV Guide: Where Are They Now, from Clack Unlimited.
• VoxAngelicus at The Clayboard tells us of two "random" Clay mentions:

  This morning I did a search of the Chicago Tribune website to see if they'd picked up the recent AP review. They haven't, but instead I found two other brief mentions of Clay's name. One was in an article about celebrities' opinions of American Idol. In that article, Nikki Blonsky of "Hairspray" said that she a fan of Clay and Bo Bice. The other mention was in a review published today about a movie called "The Ringer." The movie itself sounds offensive, but the Clay mention was positive. The writer said that Johnny Knoxville's character is "so pure of heart he makes Clay Aiken look like Robert Downey Jr." I have to agree that our wonderful UNICEF ambassador and Brave Sir Robin is indeed pure of heart. I just thought you might be interested in knowing that our guy's name is out there.

• Newsday.com - In an interview with Robert Morse, who is starring on Broadway in "The Seafarer", Robert mentions Clay in his answer to the last question of his interview:

  (Question) The alternative, I guess, is to be Brad Pitt and never have a moment to yourself.
  
  (Answer) For crying out loud, Clay Aiken's over here in "Spamalot," and when he , that alley is filled with screaming people. Y'know, we've got plenty of people outside our stage door each night who are excited and want autographs, but that kind of mob mentality ... there are people who live with that every single day, that kind of crush wherever you go. That's not a way I want to live a life.

• Shenandoah2 at The Clayboard says that her boyfriend heard the following on the radio in Rocky Mount, NC -

  Shortly after that the alarm went off and I was tired so I hit snooze. When it went off again they were just calling Neil Sedaka for a phone interview as he is coming to Raleigh for three shows. He was talking about songs he would sing and they mentioned Solitaire and that Clay had done a lovely rendition of it. Then they talked about Clay living in the area and that he was currently on Broadway in Spamalot. They also talked about how Neil is friends with Clay's mom and she will be attending one of the concerts.

  Neil Sedaka performed with the North Carolina Symphony this past weekend.
• Wichita Falls Times - AI7 has "No Clay Aikens or Reuben Studdards or Taylor Hickses to speak of."
• The Cavalier Daily - stalker songs? "Invisible" -

  1) The Stalker. The prime example of this type of song is "Every Breath You Take" by Sting and the Police. More recently, however, there are examples such as "Invisible" by Clay Aiken and "Bloody Valentine" by Good Charlotte. The lyrics to these songs are, in a nutshell, fairly creepy and should be avoided at all cost for their tendency to make a situation awkward. Because, at the end of the day, what date wants to know you wish you were invisible so you could just watch her in her room. I mean, to each his own -- but that's weird.

• There Was A Man comments on Newsday's great review of Clay in Spamalot:

  In many ways, some fans are harder on him than any critic could be, but with Spamalot there is seemingly universal agreement that he taken this role, and kicked it to the curb. The great thing is that he is totally out of his comfort zone. He's not exactly experienced in dancing and acting. Singing yes, but not doing it while acting and dancing. He has surpassed fans' expectations with this role and hopefully his own. He might just have found his grail on Broadway or at least part of his grail.