ArtsScene Tulsa World • Page D3 • Saturday, February 17, 2007

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Simon Cowell (left), Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson narrow the contestants down to 24 during Hollywood week. idol chatter by sarah hart To Hollywood It girl and beyond Tuesday and Wednesday’s “American Idol” resulted in a pool of 172 relatively talented people being cut to 24, fi rst in New movie features Sienna Miller stars Hollywood week and then in another thin- in “Factory Girl.” ning session. It was swift and often brutal Sienna Miller as a how quickly people were chopped out of the lineup. For the most part, I agree with the cuts, but so many auditions in Hol- Warhol-created lywood weren’t shown, it’s hard to know media sensation if people were unjustly banished. One-audition wonders? BY MICHAEL SMITH Hollywood week saw the end to a few World Scene Writer talented performers’ stage time. I never again saw Sarah Krueger, who stood out Image was everything for 1960s to me in the fi rst show. Denise Jackson, New York City “It girl” Edie Sedgwick. who told America that she is a crack baby, That generalization seems apt in never graced the cameras again. And cases such as hers, in which a public hardest to say goodbye to, especially since persona creates such an overwhelm- we never saw him again, was not-hard-on- ing surface attraction, but of course the-eyes Jenry Bejarano, a 16-year-old New it’s completely wrong. Yorker. Oh well. Vaya con dios. That point comes through with blunt force trauma in “Factory Girl,” Surprises which uses Sedgwick’s story as a brutal cautionary tale for all young A really good group emerged out of women thinking their fame and Hollywood week, sort of the swimsuit fortune are just a move to the big city competition of the show, because you away. can’t hide any fl aws while singing with For Sedgwick, as imagined by di- three other talented people. One group rector George Hickenlooper, her New of four guys had three members make it York experience is one that shows she to the fi nal 24. They sang “How Deep Is should have tried to make it anywhere Your Love?” and there was real harmony but there. and real dancing and actual entertain- Any other intentions for the fi lm are ment. The members who moved on were glossed over in perfecting a withering Chris Sligh, one of my favorites; Rudy window on the time, dressing the fi lm Cardenas; and Blake Lewis, the beat-box- in a melange of mod fashions, perva- er who’s showing shades of greatness. sive drug use and the accompanying sex and rock ’n’ roll. Letdowns Like the poor little rich girl’s life, Sundance Head. I’m not sure how he “Factory Girl” is interesting for a made it to the fi nal 24, but he’s there short, shiny time, then fi zzles out, — and he best improve. I liked him making for an often empty experience. artifi cially happy existence, she unwit- his many artistic endeavors, such as a lot during his original audition, but Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) seems tingly enters another when an art gal- screen painting, motion pictures and movie review group singing didn’t suit him at all. He a picture of blissful innocence as she lery opening leads to an introduction more at “The Factory.” “FACTORY GIRL” tried too hard, and it showed. He knew drops out of Radcliffe in 1964, leaving to Andy Warhol. Edie quickly becomes his muse at it, too, when he said after making a cut: her Massachusetts art school for New Guy Pearce gives appropriately this quirky warehouse space adorned Stars: “If that isn’t crazy, I don’t know what York, where any artist heads if they’re eccentric life and voice to a fi gure with a silver spray-painted interior and Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce and Hayden is. I am not an example for anyone who Christiansen serious about their work. many of us think of as largely mute home to all manner of decadence. wants to try out for this show.” But this blond beauty, which Miller and mysterious, and he physically The young woman transforms into Theaters: creates as a waifi sh fi gure full of tragic disappears into the pale, sickly skin of Warhol’s new movie “superstar” in Southroads 20 Funny, in a sad way vulnerability, is as intent on fi nding Warhol and his pop-art world. strange underground projects such as fame and fun as she is on running Baylie Brown, the one Simon said The performance is both creepy fi lming her doing essentially nothing. Running Time: — and I agreed — would make a great away from what’s portrayed as a 90 minutes and clever, never screaming out as a But more importantly, she becomes pop singer, didn’t know a word to “This mythically notorious upbringing. work of mimicry like that of Hayden his arm candy for gallery showings, Put simply: Her rich daddy raped Rated: Old Heart of Mine,” therefore swaying Christiansen’s folk-rock prophet (it’s premieres and other vacuous events side to side and smiling hugely when her from the age of 8 and system- Bob Dylan, but he wouldn’t allow the made more important by tabloid pho- R (pervasive drug use, strong sexual con- tent, nudity and language) her part came around in group singing. atically drove her brothers to early use of his name in the fi lm). tographers. deaths while mommy looked the other She never broke that Nashville-made Warhol (notorious and little re- It’s on the printed page that she Quality: smile, but never uttered a sound, either. way to keep up appearances. spected in 1965 by the public) sees the ## So while Edie looks to escape one She should’ve been practicing before the debutante as more than a cash cow for SEE GIRL D-4 (on a scale of zero to four stars) audition instead of talking bad about her group mates. She’ll probably still make it big somewhere, though. I wish Jimmy McNeal, who sang “Cupid” in his fi rst audition, would’ve made the Tickets go on sale cut. He was so saddened by his dis- missal because he was trying to think for Keith Urban show how to tell his mom. Sigh. They’ve got pluck Tickets to see country music superstar Keith Urban in Okla- Enough, already homa City this summer go on sale The suspense stuff is annoying, judges. Two more local musicians advance in CBS contest Saturday morning. They went out of their way to make Urban will everyone think they weren’t moving on, which was funny the fi rst few hundred BY MATT ELLIOTT perform at times, but don’t you think those who made World Scene Writer Oklahoma City’s Ford it early told the others how they were told? Two Tulsa youngsters are the latest Center on It was goofy. Things like, “We’ve decided area kids to get a spot on the “Living July 2. It’s just (oh-so-pregnant pause) not to (pause, part Room Kids ... Live! Kids’ edition” of CBS’ one stop on 2) exclude you from the competition.” Quit “The Early Show.” the fi rst leg playing with my emotions. Emma Jane Pendleton, 13, and Marina of his North Pendleton, 12, made a video recording of American Melinda tracker themselves playing the bluegrass song “Love, Pain Melinda Doolittle, who graduated “Cotton Patch Rag.” They sent the song into & the Whole from Union High School, is in the top 24, Urban the weekly contest segment, part of “The Crazy World and apparently Simon is taken with her. Early Show’s” telecast consisting of three Tour,” which He hugged the former backup singer af- videos selected by the show’s producers as begins in Phoenix on June 8. ter telling her she’d passed, saying, “You the best videos submitted by viewers. The tour comes on the boot heels are good enough to stand at the front of The competition works by having of his recent Grammy nomination the stage. You are no longer a backup viewers vote online for their favorite for best male country vocal per- singer. This was unanimous, kid. You clips through www.cbs.com, and voting formance for the single “Once in a got that? I am really pleased for you.” He ends the following Thursday. Lifetime” off of his latest album. looked awe-struck. It was weird. The video, which will air between 9:30 The album is Urban’s fourth and 10 a.m. on Monday on KOTV, chan- release, and it debuted at No. 1 on Early favorite nel 6, shows the girls dressed in gold the Billboard country album chart It’s too early to call, still, but homer shirts and black cowboy hats. Emma in November. The Australian sing- accusations aside, I still like Doolittle. plays the fi ddle while her sister plucks Courtesy er-songwriter has received much I also like the other backup singer, at a mandolin. They’ve been playing the recognition, including honors from Brandon Rogers. violin since they were 3 years old, said Sisters Emma Jane and Marina Pendleton shot a video that will appear in a the Country Music Association and their mother, Virginia Pendleton. national competition. The video will air between 9:30 and 10 a.m. Monday on “The Academy of Country Music. The girls play classical music and Early Show” on CBS, which airs locally on KOTV, channel 6. Tickets to the general public go bluegrass, and they study with fi ddle “It’s fast and it has a lot of different bow their grandmother’s house to watch the on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, that’s Simon says master Jana Jae, who performed on the techniques that you have to master or ... you show Monday morning, they said. today, and are available online To Sundance Head after his group per- television variety show “Hee Haw” and can’t make it sound the way it’s really sup- Their mother said the girls recently taped at www.ticketmaster.com and by formance: “You sing through your nose. in Buck Owens’ band, the Buckaroos. posed to sound. It has a lot of string crossing.” a performance on the local TV show, “Up phone at 587-2322. And halfway through, you looked like The girls also take lessons from Karen Coweta metal band Crooked X won Late with Ben Sumner,” which will be broad- Tickets are also available at Macy’s you’d been boiled. Well, he went so red!” Naifeh Harmon, their mother said. nearly two weeks ago, advancing to the cast at 12:30 a.m. Sunday on KOKI Fox 23. and FYE in Woodland Hills Mall. The song they sent to CBS is the hard- fi nals in the competition. — Karen Shade, World Scene est thing the duo is playing right now, The girls, who are home-schooled, Matt Elliott 581-8366 Writer Sarah Hart 581-8354 said Emma Jane Pendleton. will take a break from classes and go to [email protected] [email protected]

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