"AMERICAN IDOL" - PATSY CLINE SONG
     LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lilly Scott has "kind of made Patsy Cline feel current." That's Kara DioGuardi's praise for the way Scott sang "I Fall to Pieces" on last night's "American Idol." Randy Jackson told Scott, he loved the mandolin she was playing, "loved that song, love the original singer of that song" and he thinks her performance was "hot." Ellen DeGeneres had good things to say to Lilly Scott, too, like "love your voice, love your originality of your style and loved it, love you." Then, there's Simon Cowell who said Scott performance of "I Fall to Pieces" was cute and quirky. But, he says it "didn't have the wow factor." The top-8 men sing on tonight's "American Idol" on Fox. Two men and two women get the boot tomorrow.
    
DANNY GOKEY - EYEGLASSES SPONSOR
     MILWAUKEE (AP) - Danny Gokey might be changing his glasses as often as he changes his clothes. He's signed a two-year marketing agreement with an optical company to promote their eyeglasses. It calls for Gokey to wear up to 60 pairs of the company's glasses, be featured in television and outdoor advertising in Wisconsin and make personal in-store appearances. It's his first long-term endorsement deal.
 
 JOE DON ROONEY - WILL BE A DAD AGAIN
     NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The wife of Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts soon will lose her Playmate figure. It couldn't be for a better reason. Rooney's wife, former Playboy Playmate, Tiffany Fallon, is pregnant with their second child. That means, of course, another Rascal will enter the world. The baby is due in September. Rooney says they "are so excited to bring another child" into their lives. He says their first child, son "Jagger has been the biggest blessing." He was born in May of 2008. Joe Don Rooney and Tiffany Fallon have been married since April of 2006.
 
 BLAKE SHELTON - CAN SEE MARRIAGE WITH MIRANDA, MAYBE
     NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - After nearly five years together, Blake Shelton finally is warming to the idea of marrying Miranda Lambert. He says they've had their good years, their bad years and their really bad years. But, Shelton says right now the two of them "have a stronger relationship" than they've ever had. In fact, he says it's even stronger and better than "in the early times when it was new and exciting." He says their relationship now is "exciting" to him. So, he says probably for the first time he can realistically say, he can see them being together forever and can see them "getting married one day, maybe."
    
JIMMY WAYNE - CHUGGING ALONG
     (AP) - Jimmy Wayne is making some progress on his walk from Nashville to Phoenix. Checking in by Twitter, he says he says that yesterday he walked 25.4 miles. After that, he was "beat." Wayne is now in the middle of Oklahoma. He's walking to raise awareness of kids who age out of the foster care system. Those kids can be at risk for being homeless.
 
 JULIANNE HOUGH - RECORDING; POLICE INCIDENT
     (AP) - Julianne Hough's (hufs) day started out great. She says she was at Blackbird Studio in Nashville listening to two mixes for her new record. In the evening, Hough got pulled over for speeding. But, she lucked out because she got "off with a warning." To that she says: "Phew!" Hough says it would have "been a $200 speeding fine and $160" for not changing her drivers license from Utah to Tennessee 30 days after her move. Hough adds "eek" because she moved from Utah to Tennessee two years ago.
 
     by Rosalie Fox
 
    
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