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“We were so frugal, we would manually roll the fax toner back to use what portions of it had not impressed on paper yet.”

 

Kaufman controlled Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” with pitch perfection. When he mixes gospel roots with that soulful jazz tone, it's hard to think he won't make the show's Top 2.

Twice in the clip below from today's episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Madonna refers to her Indy-based helpers at the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show as "villagers." She appears to use that word when referencing both those who set up her staging in all of eight minutes, and also when speaking to the aid of 150 gladiators she "employed." (Truth be told, she paid them in the currencies of Panera and Papa John's, relative pigspittle for the help they gave this self-loving "Cleopatra" with her ballyhooed entrance. But then again, they are peasants, right?)

Previous incarnations of his 'Cocktail Hour' show featured arrangements of songs by Joni Mitchell, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, and Amy Winehouse.