Sondra Lowell

  • Actually, Gov. Sanford Was Meeting … Aliens!

    South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was considered a strong contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination until alarm over his six day disappearance spread across the nation, culminating in a tear-stained press conference that revealed he had been neither hiking nor writing nor driving aimlessly around Buenos Aires but crying with the (other) woman he…

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    Sondra Lowell

  • A Susan Boyle Meltdown Hoax?

    Did Susan Boyle self-destruct? Or is Simon Cowell tricking us again? At first we could hope it was all a misunderstanding and Susan Boyle didn’t really scream and swear at the police. Or at her biggest "Britain’s Got Talent" rival, 12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi, as she watched him on the telly in her hotel bar.  …

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    Sondra Lowell

  • Does Adam Lambert’s ‘Idol’ Loss Mean ‘BGT’s’ Susan Boyle Is in Trouble?

    It’s over.   Kris Allen won ‘American Idol," and it wasn’t even close.    The big question now is — how is this going to affect this week’s outcome of "Britain’s Got Talent?" It’s not like the old days, when what happened in America stayed in America. Word has surely gotten back to the Old Country…

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    Sondra Lowell

  • Susan Boyle Was Right to Snub Obama

    Will Susan Boyle bring down Barack Obama?   Talent contestant Sarah Boyle’s rebuff of an invitation to dine with Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has gone practically unnoticed compared to the outrage over Wanda Sykes’ hope that Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys fail.   But it may be Sarah’s subtle oneupsmanship that has the more lasting implications.   Only weeks…

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    Sondra Lowell

  • Poor Mia’s Hunger Strike Was a YouTube Flop

    On Thursday, May 7, the 11th day of her hunger strike, Mia Farrow’s only communication was her blog post, “I’m really struggling today.” Her “Day 12” message was, “Feeling awful. Blood sugar under 40. Muscles hurt. I won’t be able to continue much longer.” She didn’t explain why she hadn’t quit already. For far too…

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    Sondra Lowell

  • Has Britain Got TOO Much Talent?

    Has Britain got too much talent? Or have I got too much time on my hands?   In my last post, I researched whether the Britain’s Got Talent turnabout on Susan Boyle, from ridicule to reverence, was faked. I was open to whatever truth turned up and I am sticking with my conclusion that, while edited for theatrical effect,…

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    Sondra Lowell

  • Susan Boyle: What Did They Know, and When Did They Know It?

    I’m not one of those bullies who looked at Susan Boyle’s audition on "Britain’s Got Talent" and went, “Harumph! She’s nowhere as good as Elaine Paige, whoever that is, how dare she aim so high.” Though I did later learn from Letty Cottin Pogrebin in one of Huffington Post’s multitudinous articles on Susan’s triumph that…

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    Sondra Lowell