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07/06/2008 10:33 AM
By Joe Brown · July 5, 2008 · 11:22 PM
In the spirit of the night, with all the on-the-scene, up-to-the-minute blog posts about the UFC and boxing matches dominating the Las Vegas Sun, it seems fitting to weigh in briefly on the night's other major event in Vegas: the "American Idols Live" concert at the Thomas and Mack Center.
The three-hour event was not a competition, and (blessedly) there was no troika of judges to proclaim "pitchiness," etc. But it appeared to this witness that the walkaway winner of the evening was 17-year-old David Archuleta. Sure, he was the runner-up on the actual show that spawned this concert and its 53-show tour (Vegas was stop #4). But Archuleta brought his A-game (or some other sports cliche) and proved he's on course to be a musical star in the long term.
More details on the day in an upcoming issue of the Las Vegas Sun, but here's my ranking of tonight's Top Ten on the strength of tonight's performances: #2: David Cook, #3: Carly Smithson, #4: Jason Castro, #5 Michael Johns, #6 Brooke White, #7 Chikezie Eze, #8: Syesha Mercado, #9 Kristy Lee Cook, #10: Ramiele Malubay.
I'll leave you with one quote from this afternoon's Idol press conference:
Carly Smithson: "I want a David Cook t-shirt!"
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