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My Favorite Scene || by Seth Abramovitch || 07 17 2009 11:20 AM
EXCLUSIVE: The American Idols Share Their Favorite Movie Scenes
With Movieline

ADAM LAMBERT

"One of my favorite movies of all time is Velvet Goldmine, by Todd Haynes, and the scene that comes to mind is when Ewan McGregor's character is first introduced and he's a singer, a rock star, and the camera comes in on him -- he's on stage -- and he gets naked, pours beer all over himself, then glitter on top of that. He shakes the glitter can around his crotch like he was jerking off onto the audience and then lights the foot of the stage on fire. And to me, that just sums up everything that a rock star should be. It's like a fantasy sequence. That movie is absolutely brilliant -- and a little underrated in my opinion, too. I was about 22 when I first saw it, and I was just like, whoa. It's a movie loosely based on a Ziggy Stardust-type character and an Iggy Pop-type character. It doesn't specifically name them but they're clearly modeled after those two rock stars, and it's just cool. It's a love letter to the glam scene."

YouTubes:

1. VELVET GOLDMINE (1998) "TV Eye", Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor)

2. The real "Velvet Goldmine"

EXCLUSIVE: The American Idols Share Their Favorite Movie Scenes With Movieline
INTERVIEWS || BY: SETH ABRAMOVITCH || JULY 17, 2009 11:20 AM EDT
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The top 10 Idols, in order of their finish and excluding Scott MacIntyre, named their favorite movie scenes.

My note: One of these things is not like the others.

KRIS ALLEN - Independence Day
"The first one that popped into my head is Independence Day, when Bill Pullman, who plays the President, gets up on a flatbed truck and delivers that speech to the pilots. 'We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.' That was really good."

ADAM LAMBERT - Velvet Goldmine
"One of my favorite movies of all time is Velvet Goldmine, by Todd Haynes, and the scene that comes to mind is when Ewan McGregor's character is first introduced and he's a singer, a rock star, and the camera comes in on him -- he's on stage -- and he gets naked, pours beer all over himself, then glitter on top of that. He shakes the glitter can around his crotch like he was jerking off onto the audience and then lights the foot of the stage on fire. And to me, that just sums up everything that a rock star should be. It's like a fantasy sequence. That movie is absolutely brilliant -- and a little underrated in my opinion, too. I was about 22 when I first saw it, and I was just like, whoa. It's a movie loosely based on a Ziggy Stardust-type character and an Iggy Pop-type character. It doesn't specifically name them but they're clearly modeled after those two rock stars, and it's just cool. It's a love letter to the glam scene."

DANNY GOKEY - Disney's Aladdin
One of my favorite scenes is from Disney's Aladdin, when the genie first comes out of the lamp. The genie -- Robin Williams -- just cracks me up. He says all these random things, and he scares Aladdin. It's awesome -- a funny moment. I love Disney, and DreamWorks.
[He sees a journalist he knows.] I'm sorry, I have to ask this guy a question. [He asks the journalist about a young brunette woman in the room. The journalist replies that he thinks she's an intern with one of the TV crews.] Man she's cute.
MOVIELINE: Which one is she?
DG: I don't want to turn around and make it obvious.
ML: In the high-heeled silver shoes?
DG: Uh-huh. She's very cute.
ML: Well, you're the rock star, you're supposed to, you know, be a rock star.
DG: Make a move, right? I'm pretty cautious when it comes to relationships.
ML: Would this be a relationship?
DG: Ahhhh -- even those. None of that. I don't want to be disrespectful. Not that I'd disrespect them. But a one-night stand ... I don't know, I feel would be like I'd be disrespecting them.
MY NOTE: Gokey always comes across as a jerk, for me for you.

ALLISON IRAHETA - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
"The first scene for some reason that came to my head right now was in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, when Jim Carrey's coming out of the rhino. It's pretty gross. That for some reason just came into my head. It's one of my favorite scenes! When he's coming out of the rhino."

MATT GIRAURD - The Godfather
"In The Godfather, the scene where Pacino does his first crime. Anyway, they're sitting there at the table and they're going to kill that police chief guy at this little Italian restaurant. It's so intense, because that's like the breaking point when he really becomes a gangster. Before that he was just a good little, you know, army guy. A military man. That's when he really makes the change. I love that scene. It's so intense. They hide the gun in the bathroom, and he comes out. It's always sweet. Badass forever."

ANOOP DESAI - Swingers
"My scene is from the movie Swingers, which is my favorite movie ever. It's the very end of the movie, where Mikey is talking to T, they're in a coffee shop. And Mikey had just met this girl the night before. He'd be sweatin' his ex-girlfriend for six months, and he's really in a rut. And he finally meets this girl, and he's out of it. So the roles are sort of switched. T is the ladies' man, giving advice the whole movie. And in the end, T ends up making a fool of himself and then Mikey is the one that's very content. That means a lot to me, because one of my best friends made me watch that movie when I was sort of going through a rough time in my life, and it sort of gave me hope for the future, gave me a road map for how to be yourself and things will just come -- which fortunately has worked out for me."

LIL ROUNDS - The Notebook
"The movie for me would be The Notebook. I love The Notebook. The scene that I love the most is when Allie gets together with Noah, and they start dating. She finally decides to go out with him. And they're leaving the movies, and they're getting ice cream, and she takes the ice cream and shoves it in his face and starts playing around with him a little. That's like the funnest part for me because I've done that to my husband before. Just playin' around. Then they kiss afterwards. That's the cutest little part of that movie."

SCOTT MACINTYRE - unfortunately omitted for time constraints and not his visual impairment

MEGAN JOY - Dancer in the Dark
"I love movies. There's so many different ones I could talk about, but the one that just came to my mind is from Dancer in the Dark. Right when Björk's character is about to be executed, she's singing and counting her steps as she goes, and her son is involved, and I cried and I cried. I kind of think about it sometimes. Björk is one of the biggest influences in my life."

MICHAEL SARVER - Tombstone
"The movie Tombstone, when Val Kilmer's character Doc Holliday was supposed to be sick in the bed. Doc goes out to take care of a duel that was supposed to happen between another person and his pal Wyatt Earp, played by Kurt Russell. And Wyatt comes out, and Doc said, 'Oh, I wasn't quite as sick as I made out.' I don't know why, but that was one of my favorite lines ever."

Adam plays the role of Charlie Dalrymple in the musical comedy "Brigadoon" produced by Houston's
Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS), and presented at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

His performance of "Come To Me, Bend To Me" is called "swoon-worthy" by the Houston Press and "achingly beautiful" by the Houston Chronicle.

Lost in Translation
TUTS's Brigadoon tries to pull 1940s charm into the present day
By Lee Williams Thursday, Mar 25 2004
www.houstonpress.com/2004-03-25/culture/lost-in-translation/

Rising from the Scottish mist flowing over the stage at the Hobby Center is the magical world of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon. The 1947 musical is a throwback to that era. Melodies lilt into heights where only the headiest sopranos and tenors can go, and the choreography floats across the stage on the long legs of only the most capable ballet dancers. Under the direction of Roy Hamlin, Theater Under the Stars' production has dutifully tried to capture that old-time 1940s charm, but the results are sometimes less than enchanting.

It all begins with Tommy Albright (George Dvorsky) and Jeff Douglas (Mark Zimmerman), two Americans hiking through the forests of Scotland. Their cell phone and backpacks let us know that they're from modern times. But Tommy's problems aren't new. Though he's got a good job and a fine fiancée back home in New York, he longs for something more and is even considering postponing his marriage. Jeff, on the other hand, is a practical guy who thinks it's time Tommy stopped his dreaming and just got on with the business of living, which includes getting married.

Of course, the magic that will change everything is hinted at from the beginning, in the music floating across the Highland mist through which the Americans are traversing. It isn't long before the arguing friends go looking for a town they can hear in the distance but can't find on any map.

Brigadoon turns out to be the sort of magical place where everyone knows everyone else, and they all come together in the town square. Among the shoppers are sisters Fiona (Rachel deBenedet) and Jean (Laura Scott). There's also Charlie (Adam Lambert), Jean's handsome, blond-haired betrothed. Everyone's deliriously happy because today Jean and Charlie will be married at last. But darkness lurks in the shadows in the form of Harry Beaton (Angelo Fraboni). He loves Jean too, and now he can't ever have her. We also learn that Jean's pretty older sister Fiona has never married, which she sings about in "Waitin' for My Dearie."

Into all this energy come Tommy and Jeff, who show up at just about the time Fiona finishes her song about how she's willing to wait forever for the right man. We know immediately that Tommy and Fiona have finally found what they've been longing for. There is, however, one tiny hitch: Brigadoon is bewitched. But Tommy doesn't discover that until he's head over heels.

Like Tommy's friend Jeff, the cell-phone-carrying audience will have to suspend their modern-day cynicism to buy into the story, but that's only part of what troubles this production. The show's real magic should be the love between Fiona and Tommy. But deBenedet and Dvorsky generate so little chemistry that they aren't able to cast much in the way of a theatrical spell over the show. Adding to their problems is the fact that deBenedet's capable voice is ill suited to the light, high music her character sings. And Dvorsky's Tommy never seems quite comfortable in the fantastical place that Brigadoon is. Even the classic duo "Almost Like Being in Love" doesn't bubble to life as it should.

Still, the secondary story of the love triangle among Jean, Charlie and Harry is full of fire. Lambert's gorgeous tenor voice makes Charlie's love songs -- especially the unforgettable "Come to Me, Bend to Me" -- swoon-worthy. And Susan McCarter Olson's choreography, based in part on the original by Agnes DeMille (she worked with DeMille as a young dancer), is made fresh and exciting by the fine dancing of Scott's lovely Jean and Fraboni's angry Harry.

But something has clearly gotten lost in the translation from the 1940s to the present. And while a few elements of the show are worth seeing (especially if you're a fan of big old-fashioned musicals), in the end, this modern production of an old and magical love story fails to enchant.