Fan death made "Idol's" (Jewish) Cowell think "long and hard"

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Early life

Cowell was born in Brighton, East Sussex, England and brought up in Elstree, Hertfordshire.[2] His father, Eric Philip Cowell, was an estate agent developer and music industry executive, and his mother, Julie Brett (née Josie Dalglish), is a former ballet dancer and socialite.[3] Cowell's paternal grandparents, Joseph Cowell and Esther Malinsky, were English Jews, and his maternal grandfather was Scottish.[4] He has 1 brother and 2 half-brothers; younger brother Nicholas Cowell, half-brother Tony Cowell, and half-brother Michael Cowell. Michael is the oldest, followed by Tony, Simon and Nicholas, (in that specific order).

Cowell attended Dover College as did his brother, but left early before sixth form. He took a few menial jobs, but did not get along well with co-workers and bosses, until his father who was executive at the recording giant at EMI Music Publishing, managed to get him a job in the mail room.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cowell

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Fan death made "Idol's" Cowell think "long and hard"
Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:45pm EST

By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Acerbic "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell said on Wednesday the apparent suicide of a former contestant and obsessed fan forced him to think "long and hard" about his blunt comments to hopeless singers on the show.

But in his first detailed comments about the fan's death in November, Cowell said the U.S. top-rated television talent show was "not inherently mean" and that the hundreds of thousands of people who audition every year knew they would be criticized.

"I have thought long and hard about this...I think we will continue in the way we have always done. We have tried to have a sense of humor. The show is not an inherently mean show. It is an American dream show where the whole purpose is to find somebody who through the process becomes a star," Cowell told reporters in a telephone conference call.

The British judge said the death in November of Paula Goodspeed, 30, a fan of fellow "Idol" judge Paula Abdul who was ridiculed when she tried out in 2005, "hit us like an express train. It upset me a lot".

Goodspeed's audition was greeted with laughter by the judging panel and Cowell, who often makes fun of tone-deaf or eccentric performers, commented on her braces, questioning how she could sing with "that much metal" in her mouth.

Referring to her suicide, Cowell said: "What happened was awful. My regret is that we didn't know how troubled this person was. If I had gone back in time and known what she was going through, I wish we could have spent time trying to help her, but we genuinely didn't know."

Goodspeed's overdose in a car outside Abdul's Los Angeles home made worldwide headlines and sparked heated debate on the harsh comments meted out to bad singers in early "Idol" audition rounds and later broadcast on national TV.

Abdul said last week that "Idol" producers had dismissed her fears about letting Goodspeed audition for the sake of making an entertaining show.

Cowell defended the producers of the show, which after more than six years as America's most-watched TV program, averages around 30 million viewers. It begins an 8th season on January 13.

"The producers have the utmost integrity as human beings," he said, noting the two "Idol Gives Back" charity events in 2007 and 2008 which had raised $120 million for mostly children's charities in the United States and Africa.

Cowell said that after seven seasons, the singers who audition knew they would be criticized if they were no good.

"When something like this has happened, it does make you take a step back," he said. "I've always thought it important to show people at home that when bad singers come in and they are not very good, that it is time to give up that type of dream and take a normal job."

"American Idol" producers say the 8th season will focus less on early auditions and bad singers and give more time to talented performers when the show returns on the Fox network.

But they said these and other tweaks were made to make the show more interesting, and help maintain slipping ratings, rather than as a reaction to Goodspeed's death.

(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and David Storey)

http://www.reuters.com/article/entertai ... DG20081217

[Torquemada]

Cowell is quite a character: camp, arrogant and funny. This fella goes on holiday with his girlfriend and ex-girlfriend. Not to mention his mother as well.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

That's it Torquemada -

"Campy" is a good word for Cowell and the whole show.  The purpose is to make a quick buck, entertain cheaply and provocatively while debasing the last remnants of Western culture. "Campy" is your typical Jewish variety show... which ends up being an entire waste of time.

[Torquemada]

That's it Torquemada -

"Campy" is a good word for Cowell and the whole show.  The purpose is to make a quick buck, entertain cheaply and provocatively while debasing the last remnants of Western culture. "Campy" is your typical Jewish variety show... which ends up being an entire waste of time.

Cultural destruction of people is a long time Protocol Zionist objective. Its no coincidence the Feminist, Racial Egalitarian movments were Jew dominated and inspired.

Jews operating on the cultural front of FEMINISM:
 
-Gloria Steinem (1934- ); founder, Ms. Magazine.
 
-Bella Abzug (1920-1998); Civil rights and labor attorney elected to
Congress (House of Rep.) from New York City; served 1971-1977.
 
-Betty Friedan (1921- ); feminist leader and author of the book "The
Feminine Mystique" (1963).
 
-Shulamith Firestone (1945- ); Canadian feminist. Wrote "The
Dialectic of Sex" (1970).
 
-Andrea Dworkin (1946- ); radical; apparent lesbian. Author of the
book "Intercourse" (1987).
 
-Susan Brownmiller (1935- ); U.S. feminist. Wrote the book "Against
Our Will" (1975).
 
-Susan Faludi (1959- ); author of the book "Backlash" (1992).
 
-Naomi Wolf (1962- ); advisor to Al Gore in the 2000 U.S.
presidential election.
 
-Emma Goldman (1869-1940); early U.S. feminist.
 
-Ernestine Rose (1810-1892); b. in Poland; early feminist.
 
-Phyllis Chesler (1941- ); U.S. feminist; author of the book "Woman's
Inhumanity to Woman" (2002).
 
-Judy Chicago (Cohen) (1939- ); U.S. feminist. Author of the
book "The Dinner Party" (1996).
 
-Robin Morgan (1941- ); U.S. feminist. Former editor-in-chief, Ms.
magazine.
 
-Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1939- ); U.S. feminist; co-founded Ms.
magazine.
 
-Gerda Lerner (1920- ); b. in Austria.
 
-Annie Nathan Meyer (1867-1951); U.S. feminist.
 
-Maud Nathan (1862-1946); sister of Annie Nathan Meyer; U.S. feminist.
 
-Geri Palast (1950- ); chair, Committee on Women in the Global
Economy; U.S. feminist.
 
-Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972); b. in Poland.
 
-Anita Pollitzer (1894-1975); U.S. feminist; pal of artist Georgia
O'Keeffe.
 
-Gene Boyer (no birthyear available); a founder of N.O.W.; president
of Jewish Feminists; U.S. feminist.
 
-Lucy Komisar (1942- ); author of the book "The New Feminism" (1971);
U.S. feminist.
 
-Karen Nussbaum (1950- ); (apparently Jewish); leader of 9to5-
National Association of Working Women.
 
-Eleanor Flexner (1908-1995); (apparently Jewish--relative is a
Zionist); U.S. feminist.
 
-Riane Eisler (1931- ); b. Vienna; author/feminist; (apparently a
Jewish-fled Nazi). Author of the book "The Chalice and the Blade"
(1987).

http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-mindcontrol ... nfeminism2

Jewish Mind Control: Civil Rights Movements
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-mindcontrol ... ights.html

Jewish Mind Control: Homosexuality
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-mindcontrol ... ality.html

[Anonymous]

It's the Gong Show all over again

[gurdgieff]

I think all contestants,producers and everybody else involved in american Idol including the viewers.should all kill themeselves.
the former contestant who committed suicide should be held up as a virgin mary type figure for future aspirants of american idol as something to aspire to.If you cant sing top yourself In fact top yourself anyway even if you can sing.
If you ever get this thought in your head- "I think i will go on american idol"-then just top yourself FFS in fact kill simon cowell and then top yourself.

[MikeWB]

FWIIW, Paula Abdul's Jewish too.