ZINGER OF THE WEEK: Mr. Tyler was a delight in the early audition rounds, like a Ritalin-starved grade-schooler let loose in a Twinkie factory. By midseason, though, he barely appeared to be paying attention, his flights of wild grammar more frustrating than novel. — Jon Caramonica in the Nytimes Idol post-mortem.
How out of place did Marc Anthony look? Fiendish tokenism or fashionable opportunism? “Dream On” as power ballad plunged the overplayed Aerosmith rag even further into the muck. Tyler works so hard to embarrass himself, and succeeds in such a self-satisfied, over-deliberate way. It’s almost like he belongs. Favorite moment: Randy Jackson kvelling about “Don’t Stop Believing.”