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Massachusetts TV Times (?) Article

Last Post 20 Dec 2006 03:36 PM by Pheenomenon. 16 Replies.

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groucho

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17 Dec 2006 10:06 PM
This just surfaced and so far all I've seen is a scan, which is almost impossible to read. Anybody have a text version? The scanned version exists at katharinemcpheever.org but it must require younger eyes than mine to read it.

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18 Dec 2006 02:22 AM
If this is the TV This Week article...then it's probably in all other 49 states too. Not that there's anything wrong with Massachuetts. The This Week article was posted here in Buzz earlier today, Groucho--unless I'm truly wrong here and this is something else exclusive to MA residents. I'm thinking the This Week article was put into your local Sunday paper TV Guide (the one that shows local listings) in all states around the country. They sometimes have national articles in there printed for each state or city. That's the way the well-known national TV Guide used to operate...until they gave up local listings in your city because of it probably being too much of an expense. Now I have to check my local paper programming grid to see what's on local stations. Now that Kat's a favorite in the tv world once again...I'll expect her to turn up in those TV Guide crossword puzzles eventually.

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18 Dec 2006 04:58 AM
Totally. I love that she is showing up everywhere in the print media nationally. This Friday's special on TV should prompt furthrer coverage and the ads and news of her single should be just the hook for release of the CD in January/February.

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18 Dec 2006 07:50 AM
go red sox!

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18 Dec 2006 09:11 AM
No, I don't get that with my paper. Not unless I'm getting a surprise next week. Finally got re-registered and more or less up and running at kmph.org and got to read it. I'm not talking about the Post article, this one is different. There's just so much stuff surfacing about her right now, it's hard to keep track of it all, not to mention trying to differentiate between fact and fantasy.

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18 Dec 2006 07:00 PM
MandyIdolfan This was in my TV Guide for Friday December 15, 2006 CBS holiday show gets a case of McPhee-ver Even if you finish "American Idol" in second place, life gets very busy very fast. Just ask Katharine McPhee. The Fox singing competition's runner-up from last season is in high demand for Christmas appearances. One program she agree to do is "The 8th Annual A Home for the Holidays with Rod Stewart," the latest edition of the CBS special that advocates adoption. Airing Friday, December 22, it also features tunes by title star Stewart, John Legend, Five For Fighting and gospel's Mary Mary. Angie Harmon and current CBS series stars Melina Kanakaredes ("CSI NY") and Jeri Ryan ("Shark") introduce stories about youngsters whos lives have been battered by the families that took them in. During the hour McPhee reprises her version of "Over the Rainbow" that brought her toe-to-toe with eventual winner Taylor Hicks in last spring's "American Idol" final. "You get offered to do something," she reflects, "and people ask, 'Why did you want to? First they asked me to, but I really get connected when I get the information about what it is. They give me the facts about how many kids get adopted after it airs. It's so amazing, it makes it something really special." McPhee is pleased to croon "Over the Rainbow" again she explains "I have music in my family, so I grew up on the old standards. Of course I still listen to contemporary pop and R&B, but I remember watching "The Wizard of Oz' over and over again. I was always scared of the Wicked Witch of the West, but I loved Dorothy. She was such a great character and Judy Garland was amazong". Laryngitis forced McPhee to miss some early dates on last summer's "American Idol" concert tour but her schedule has made up for it since. "You'd think things would slow down a little, but I'm pretty much busy right up to the end of the year," she reports. " I speak to Chris and Kellie fellow 'Idol' alumni Daughtry and Pickler a lot and they're busy as well. Luckily I have so many great people around me who take care of things. I don't have to remember it all. I just focus on what I have to do for the day. Keeping clear vision was a near-constant challenge for McPhee while in the throes of "Idol comperition. "Looking back, people aske me if I'd do it again, and I'm always like 'No!' I'm half-joking when I say that but I almost didn't make it through a lof of it. I remember calling my boyfriend before one of the shows, or after a rehearsal that didn't go so well and crying hysterically. Mandy

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18 Dec 2006 08:27 PM
Thanks for the article, this is a great find!

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18 Dec 2006 11:43 PM
Missing paragraphs from this article! This story has very similar content: http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-weektv18dec18,0,7659967.story BUT! IT closes with these additional lines: Still working on her debut album, McPhee doesn't mind taking longer to turn hers out than other "Idol" veterans did. "I get to make all the decisions in my own time," she says. "I'm going to put out the album when I think it's ready, even though the record people might want it at a certain time. I'm trying to be in control of things as much as I can, and that's the difference between being on 'American Idol' and having a career after it." Now that is a whole different story! Furthermore, if you go here: http://gallery.efanguide.com/~kmcpheever/displayimage.php?pid=5236&fullsize=1 There is an additional paragraph after the "crying hysterically" paragraph that is very revealing about Katharine's time on American Idol: "I'd be going "I don't want to do this anymore! I hate this!"He would say, "Just get through this show, then tomorrow you can decide if you really want to keep doing it." I really had sincere feelings of not wanting to, out of complete fear and nerves. I had looked at "American Idol" as "Oh, that's not so bad; I can do that" and I was so lying to myself. I had no clue, it's more pressure than you could ever imagine." Powerfull stuff! (And do we have Nick to thank for Katharine staying on AI? And she always looked so calm and happy) I hope Katharine writes her auto-biography soon, what else have we never heard before?

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19 Dec 2006 12:24 AM
I would just love a behind the scenes look at Idol through the eyes of ANY contestant, particularly thi s one. Not necessarily dirt dishing, just details. How were their weeks structured, how did they spend their days, and well maybe a little dirt... I know we've seen some of this, but more would be fun. And I'd love a Tour Diary too. There have to be so many untold stories. One day I got so curious about tour buses that I started looking online and finding out all sorts of things. My head got so stuffed with details that I wound up writing a story about it so my head wouldn't explode. Now I want fact, not fiction. Next April we should all send Nick a big birthday card and thank him for talking her into sticking with it. Katharine may be tired of singing it, but can you imagine not ever having heard her version of Over The Rainbow? Just to name one thing.

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19 Dec 2006 02:47 AM
Posted By NothlitHawk777 on 12/18/2006 7:00 PM McPhee is pleased to croon "Over the Rainbow" again she explains "I have music in my family, so I grew up on the old standards. Of course I still listen to contemporary pop and R&B, but I remember watching "The Wizard of Oz' over and over again. I was always scared of the Wicked Witch of the West, but I loved Dorothy. She was such a great character and Judy Garland was amazong". Thanks, Jas, for finding that--and Simon for finding the missing text. This was obviously a syndicated type of interview that was formatted by the local distributors depending on where you live. I hate that process in text interviews--especially when vital paragraphs are taken out for ridiculous reasons...usually space reasons. That paragraph I pasted above is quite interesting--and shows Kat acknowledging the type of music she grew up with. I've always had the feeling (well recently anyway) that she heard so much of that music that she really wanted to get away from it for a while and do something more contemporary. Perhaps that's why she gravitated to hipper urban sounds when in college. It's just interesting to see Kat praise 'Over the Rainbow' when she's been a little testy about wanting to sing it or even talk about it in recent interviews. We can only relate if you're a musician or singer who has to sing or hear the same material for long periods of time. Whenever I perform on the piano--I HAVE to mix my set lists up each time or fear losing inspiration playing the same material for too long. And--yes, Judy Garland really was amazong! I'm glad Kat grew up with 'The Wizard of Oz' on TV as most of us did. Anybody who hasn't grown up with that movie in their life is losing out on the best pop culture experience ever. Too bad some versions cut out the parts about what Nick told Kat on her difficult nights during 'AI.' That really hasn't been reported what he told her before...but what he said was the best thing. When you have someone close to you going through something they want to get out of fast (yet still important to their career)--telling them to just get through the night and go from there is the best advice. It's quite obvious now that Kat's journey through 'AI' was mental survival on a day to day basis. Hopefully those of us who sent letters to her then through Sean Hardy at least helped in part to keep her inspired and less exasperated. Groucho: It seems the most interesting type of reality shows never get made. I guess because it shows too much reality...even though they could get away with it on HBO or Showtime.

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19 Dec 2006 08:30 AM
Still working on her debut album, McPhee doesn't mind taking longer to turn hers out than other "Idol" veterans did. "I get to make all the decisions in my own time," she says. "I'm going to put out the album when I think it's ready, even though the record people might want it at a certain time. I'm trying to be in control of things as much as I can, and that's the difference between being on 'American Idol' and having a career after it." Just wanted to repeat this section. Probably the most powerfull statement Katharine has ever made about her career and it was missed in the one article and kind of got overshadowed in my previous post by the more emotional section of the difficulties of AI. I think this deserves some interpretation and some comment. Isn't that an extraordinary amount of power to be weilded by an unproven first time artist?

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19 Dec 2006 09:43 AM
I think it's more about the potential of an artist. If a recotd label wasn't expecting great things from an artist, there probably isn't alot of manoevre room for the artist. In Kat's case, they are expecting big things and are making consessions to turn out a better product.

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19 Dec 2006 11:26 AM
Great find! Thank you all very much.

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20 Dec 2006 04:20 AM
This is a fascinating article (why didn't I see this sooner? Ahem, mister original poster. A link? ). Anyway, the thing about Nick. I guess we really should create NickFans.com. We might not have our Katharine without him. Actually, we most definitely wouldn't. I wish all of the people who don't like him would shut up and realize that (I know, most of the KMF community likes Nick). I'm still amazed by the power she apparently has had in all of this. She did mention in her message to us about "How amazingly I didn't used to speak my mind..." etc, etc. And how important it's been to speak up during the whole album process. Maybe she just thought, "It can't hurt to say what I think...what can they do? Say no. Oh well." But then they listened to her and off she went... And of course she grew up with the old stuff. That's why she's so good at it. And I'm sure that's a part of the reason she's so dead set on being "current" now. She's having a ball singing contemporary material. But then...she can still hit you with "O Come All Ye Faithful" when she wants. Or "The Christmas Song".

"I saw Katharine McPhee when there were about 12 contestants left on American Idol. She blew me away. I loved her grace, her style, her poise, her voice and her hair! I wanted her to be the face of Sexy Hair because she represented everything that I had in my head for the brand: youth, beauty, talent, class, a young sophistication, and sexiness." -- Jim Morrison, CEO of Sexy Hair Products.

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20 Dec 2006 08:24 AM
Posted By Pheenomenon on 12/18/2006 11:43 PM "I'd be going "I don't want to do this anymore! I hate this!"He would say, "Just get through this show, then tomorrow you can decide if you really want to keep doing it." I really had sincere feelings of not wanting to, out of complete fear and nerves. I had looked at "American Idol" as "Oh, that's not so bad; I can do that" and I was so lying to myself. I had no clue, it's more pressure than you could ever imagine." There were Tuesday nights when I said to myself, "self, why are we putting this poor sweet girl through such obvious torment?". But then I'd vote for her like crazy anyway. On Wednesday nights I would have mixed feelings, wanting Kat to stay in the deepest regions of my heart and soul, but at the same time feeling aweful that she would have to put up with another excruciating week of AI.

"She sings so magnificantly, it's just amazing" David Foster

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20 Dec 2006 03:20 PM
I dont' mean to sound like Simon Cowell ("What's the alternative? Working in a factory? Digging ditches? Don't tell ME about the pressure!") but you know this was what she wanted. But that's precisely where the pressure comes from, Simon. Good grief. If you don't feel like your whole life and future are on the line, what's to be nervous about? He was replying to Clay Aiken, by the way. And I couldn't get to where I could find a link to a readable version of the article. That was my problem.

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20 Dec 2006 03:36 PM
http://gallery.efanguide.com/~kmcpheever/displayimage.php?pid=5236&fullsize=1 Is small but readable, at least to me! I'm not sure I understand your post, it is almost like it is to the wrong thread?

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