Quentin Tarantino will visit 'American Idol' for movie song night

Marcia White By Marcia White The Express-Times
on April 14, 2009 at 1:44 PM, updated April 15, 2009 at 7:11 AM
Quentin Tarantino: Does he sing?
It's "American Idol" performance day again. At 8 o'clock tonight, the singers will take on songs from the movies and be mentored by Quentin Tarantino (Warning: that Web site has some bad words on it, kiddies; it is about Tarantino, after all.). While he does know a lot about movies, and has put some great music in his, I've never heard him sing, and I'm not sure I want to. Sorry Quentin.

For some reason I really don't understand, whenever I think of this theme and Adam Lambert (because he's really the only contestant I like thinking about), I hear him singing "View to a Kill," by Duran Duran, released in 1985 for the James Bond flick of the same name. Maybe it's because his style reminds me a lot of the New Wave heartthrobs of the '80s.

Here's Duran Duran's take:

I picture Adam doing some sort of emo-new wave version that just knocks us all out.

In other actual "Idol" news and not just my rambling, the Associated Press is reporting Simon Cowell will stay put as judge at least another year. The thought of an Idol panel without a Cowell has me afraid, very afraid. The other too-nice judges would send 500 people through to Hollywood, the show would take a full year to get through to the finals, and every show would run over its allotted time slot because all the comments would be long-winded in the effort to not hurt anyone's feelings.

If you're gonna get the ax, get it in a quick, merciful swing. That makes Simon the sweetest judge of them all.