DAVID - AN AMAERICAN IDOL

NEW YORK (AP) — A naughty backstory was not adequate to keep David Hernandez on "American Idol." The 24-year-old ex-stripper from Glendale, Ariz., was brushed off Wed, departing eleven aspiring singers to vie for the "Idol" entitle and a record contract.
"Honestly, things happen for a reason," Hernandez told earlier departing the stage. "I believe we all have a program. ... This isn't it for me."
Hernandez, who sang the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There," made newspaper headline* last calendar week later it was disclosed to The linked Press that he acted as a stripper at a Phoenix club with a "mostly male" clientele.
Kristy Lee Cook, a 24-year-old from Selma, Ore., and Syesha Mercado, a 21-year-old from Sarasota, Fla., Finished out the bottom 3 vote-getters.
Finalists had the chance to execute classics from the John Lennon-Paul McCartney songbook this week. The show's producers recently got permission to use songs belonging to Sony/ATV Music Publishing, a company conceived by Sony and Michael Jackson.
The standouts were Carly Smithson ("Come Together"), Brooke White ("Let It Be"), David Cook ("Eleanor Rigby") and Chikezie ("She's A Woman").
David Archuleta, whose cover of Lennon's "Imagine" drew heaps of praise two weeks ago, showed that he's merely mortal when he flubbed the lyrics to "We Can Work It Out." That didn't fly with Cowell, who called the 17-year-old's performance "a mess."
Wednesday's show also featured a performance by season-five finalist Katharine McPhee and musician David Foster (on the piano).

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