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Pop Culture Digest: Bush Sees United 93, McPhee Joins Bocelli, Couric's Goodbye

Written by Chris Evans
Published May 31, 2006

President Bush will join his wife Laura Bush as well as family members of those who died on September 11, 2001 in a screening of the critically acclaimed film United 93. No information as to the exact date this will happen, but considering I have seen the movie and know how it portrays Bush and his administration's handling of the events on 9/11, it would be interesting to be a fly on the wall while he screens this film. I mean, seriously, one of the lines is "Where is the president?" "We don't know." I do. Reading The Pet Goat.

It was confirmed yesterday that American Idol runner-up, bluesy songstress Katharine McPhee, will join Andrea Bocelli on his June tour. I don't know if you could really call it a tour, seeing as how all but two of the dates are in Los Angeles, but nonetheless it should be a hot summer ticket, although it’s no rival to the American Idols Live tour, which has sold out so quickly they've recently added 20 more dates. It only goes to show just how much more popular this show has become over the years. The tour, which at first was struggling so bad it was nearly scrapped altogether, has now become one of the hottest events of the summer. How will Katharine do Bocelli and Idol you ask? Well, Bocelli's tour is in June and the Idol tour doesn't begin until July.

In other interesting McPhee news, "Think" has been replaced with her signature song "Over The Rainbow" (which they have wrongly titled "Somewhere Over The Rainbow”), presumably the one she just recently recorded with big-time producer David Foster (Bocelli, Dion, Houston). Originally, Katharine's post-Idol single was to be the God-awful "My Destiny" with the Aretha Franklin cover from the Idol CD Encores as a B-Side, according to the image of her CD cover at Amazon. Oddly though, "Think" is still listed as the 2nd track. Looks like Katharine's got a busy year ahead of her considering the fact that she's got her album to develop and record, two tours to embark on, loads of press, a call from Steven Spielberg, and a rumored casting in Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman.

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Chris Evans is a junior at Marymount Manhattan College, studying Communications. He hopes to enter the television and film industry once he graduates, and continue his obsession with Johnny Depp and Christina Aguilera.
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Pop Culture Digest: Bush Sees United 93, McPhee Joins Bocelli, Couric's Goodbye
Published: May 31, 2006
Type: News
Section: Video
Filed Under: Culture: Celebrity, Music: Live Concerts, Politics: War and Terrorism, Video: Film and TV Business, Video: News, Video: Television
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#1 — May 31, 2006 @ 09:36AM — CSJ

That's Awesome news for Kat McPhee

Looks like her career could be HOTTER than the Winner Taylor Hicks

Good Luck to Her!

#2 — May 31, 2006 @ 16:31PM — Ani

Nice summary of what's been going on with Katharine. That's pretty incredible; maybe I've just been out of the loop with the past winners and runners-up of American Idol, but it seems to me that she's already got a brighter future ahead of her than the rest of them!

#3 — June 1, 2006 @ 01:29AM — charlie

it will be no surprise to me if katharine mcphee has much greater success than taylor hicks or any of the other idol 5th season finalists. one has only to recall the comments that the pros like david foster and others made about her voice to realize that they viewed her as having huge potential. just one man's opinion, but she has much more star power than any of the others.

#4 — June 1, 2006 @ 02:05AM — ekso

Looks like Kat McPhee has quite the career ahead of her.
Bocelli, Foster, AND Spielberg?!
How come I haven't heard anything about mega-celebs teaming up with Hicks?

#5 — June 1, 2006 @ 06:55AM — Chris Evans [URL]

Because Hicks doesn't have the star quality that Katharine does. Does that make him any less of an artist? No. And I'm sure he doesn't give two shits that Katharine is getting these offers--he just wants to focus on his music. But Katharine has the looks, the voice, the talent to be a very very successful entertainer.

#6 — August 13, 2006 @ 02:37AM — Mellie

I saw Kat at the Nashville concert. Bless her heart, she has NO stage presence at all when it comes to musical performance. I have never been so bored as I was having to listen to her sing. She can't hold a candle to Taylor when it comes to bringing an audience to their collective feet. There was no comparison at all. She may be a good actress but an entertainer she is NOT.

#7 — August 13, 2006 @ 03:16AM — Chris Evans [URL]

If you consider writhing around and shouting into the mic bringing an audience to their feet--then yes, Taylor takes the cake.

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