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'American Idol' Celebrates 500th Episode: The Highs and Lows of 13 Seasons http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/idol-worship/american-idol-celebrates-500th-episode-704201 5/14/2014 by Fred Bronson His dream came true.There will be a party on the American Idol stage tonight, as the producers and cast cut a special cake to commemorate the broadcast of the series' 500th episode. Over the course of those 500 episodes, the popular Fox series has sent some aspiring singers into the stratosphere while hundreds of thousands of others have simply been sent home. There are tales of high hopes and heartbreak, of dreams come true and dreams crashing down. Here is a look back at some mostly untold tales of some of Idol’s highest and lowest points Season 5: For the season finale, over 25,000 fans filled a stadium in Birmingham to support Taylor Hicks, and the Governor of Alabama and the Mayor of the city showed up to honor their hometown hero. Meanwhile, producer Simon Lythgoe was directing a simultaneous event for Katharine McPhee in Los Angeles. "We had a maximum of 30 people at Universal City Walk. I scrambled to take off all the wide-angle lenses and didn’t use the jib camera, which would have revealed the small turnout. We scrunched the people together to fill up the frame. We made it look busy – not in the same league as Taylor's crowd, but we pulled it off. Kat did have a huge following and phone vote, but people in Los Angeles aren’t passionate about supporting their own talent. It also didn’t help that we were live at 5 p.m. West coasters think Idol is live at 8 p.m., so a lot of people turned up late and then complained about paying for parking at Universal Studios to support someone who had already lost the competition." McPhee released one album on RCA and then went on to record two albums for the Verve Forecast label. She starred in NBC's Smash and in last month's Hallmark Hall of Fame movie for ABC, In My Dreams. Three weeks ago she teased the release of her new album with photos from the cover shoot. |
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