In one fell swoop, gone from the consciousness of young ingenues and future thespians is any notion of really having a career at all in entertainment. Very canny, very shrewd were the moves made by Murdock and his band. It almost seems as though they knew the eventual outcome of this all along. if they did then, why? Why would they have led an industry so pivotal to the human psyche, down the path to the virtual abyss of the entertainment business? Didn’t they realize that so many children, young adults and people in general grew up dreaming of becoming a star, being rich or recognized for their amazing talents?
Very unceremoniously, very rudely, with no heart or any feeling at all, they just yanked the rug from underneath their feet and never looked back. What are they to do now? Much like all of those jobs lost forever to the unprecedented economic depression/recession, what happens next? Uncannily, some very disturbing facts are starting to come to the surface which makes it next to impossible to even contemplate ever forgiving the culprit Myspace. Exhibit “A” – Rupert Murdoch, scourge to many, corporate raider and international business and home wrecker. As if the entertainment biz wasn’t already going astray. Enter this corporate rabble-rouser.
First of all, “his American Idol”, already suspect of hailing from dubious beginnings, assaults most people’s sense of good taste and class by attacking any concept of decency, initially injecting some notoriously pathetic “talent” like William Hung and making a complete mockery of the pursuit of an entertainment career, a total sham.
It’s funny, but “American Idol” possesses a number of eerily similar “attributes” of my own show, “Superstarcase”, which I obtained a unique copyright for several years before the British version of the show or American Idol, were even a twinkle in anyone’s eye. Add to that bizarre twist that I had lived in England before moving to Los Angeles, presented “Superstarcase” to Super producer Pete Waterman (Stock, Aitken and Waterman fame – producer’s of Banarama, Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue, Dead or Alive and a whole host of others), engaged Hollywood talent agent, Nick Mechanic a friend, from the prestigious company “the Agency” in Century City, who began soliciting my show around Hollywood, during which time had a meeting with and presented Superstarcase to Fox Family Channel (ABC) then President Eric Roman (another friend).
With all of these coincidental connections and the “Idol” show being identified in the UK and then coming to “America”, given my poor financial state at the time, summarily I drew the conclusion that I had no chance of adequately present my situation with any hope of being allowed the opportunity of being heard. You need only take into account the financial prowess of those situations I was up against. One other brilliant little caveat, a few years prior to any contemplation of an “Idol”, after more than a year of trying to obtain it, I was awarded a “unique copyright by the US Library of Congress, which might be viewed as unusual by some because the Library of Congress does not Copyright proposals (which mine clearly was), but literary works.
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