The harsh comments of Simon Cowell, the "Yo, Dog" pitch-sensitivity of Randy Jackson, the incoherent gushing of Paula Abdul: all were meant to "train" the most talented contestants on how to look, sound and act like a pop star.
Eighty-five yearlierrlier, Shackleton with 27 men and several dogs pitched camp for three months on an ice raft just like these.
On his first day in Huntington, W. Va., Jamie Oliver spent the afternoon at Hillbilly Hot Dogs, pitching in to cook its signature 15-pound burger.
3.55am GMT 80th over: New Zealand 227-1 (Fulton 111, Williamson 77) "The continued harping on what a dead dog the pitch must be is a tad annoying and maybe also a tad premature," says Frank Stark.
My husband (who cannot carry a tune but loves music), becomes frustrated in conversation with me because his voice is competing with the dishwasher, a barking dog, the pitch of a jet cruising overhead, a beeping garbage truck backing down the driveway.
For a couple days, he thought about a dog-sharing pitch: "I see all these rich guys looking just miserable walking dogs, and I realized: a dog is only valuable 5% of the time," he said.
Jennifer Hager, a friend and quadruped pro, helped with the dog; also pitching in were colleagues from CalArts and Disney.
But Adès is not just interested in the humans: the most striking music in the first half, at least, goes to Ian Bostridge's airy, intense Caliban and to Cynthia Sieden, who as Ariel makes something beautiful out of notes written at dog-whistle pitch.
While her voice has acquired a not unappealing rasp at times, and her confidence in scaling those musical heights no longer seems unassailable (she's particularly cautious during her Jackson Five cover, I'll Be There), there are no disasters, and when she attains her famous dog-whistle pitch in Love Takes Time, the second song, the tension in the audience dissipates.
He was trying to keep the dogs at pitch, and was either screaming or yelling.
While the dogs had sex, the other dog owner pitched Myles and their friend his shopping-network business.
