"American Idol": Baseball star's daughter strikes out

(CBS News) Sometimes, one chooses to imagine that the majority of voters on "American Idol" are 6-year-old girls in pink pajamas with rose-colored starter cell phones.

When the results of this week's "American Idol" were announced by America's current Paul Revere, Ryan Seacrest, that whimsical imagining might have seemed but cold, hard fact. For the bottom three were all girls. And 6-year-old girls in pink pajamas do love their shiny, smiley boys.

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First, though, for the really big news. After the summary elimination of Jermaine Jones for a somewhat spotty relationship with law enforcement, "Idol" decided to enforce a little style. The show has co-opted the great and perfectly manicured Tommy Hilfiger to be the contestants' style consultant. He begins next week.

Goodness, how some of them need a little fashion. Several of the contestants the previous night had looked as if they were either trying to hide their age or the decade in which they were actually born.

"Talent has to have an interesting identity," declared Hilfiger. He added that Adam Lambert understood this. So did Carrie Underwood. He didn't happen to mention Taylor Hicks or Lee DeWyze.

The next fine and tasteful news offered by Seacrest was that the judges would, indeed, have a wild card this season. This card they will be able to play just once before the week in which there remain only five.

The contestants were made to do an ad in a haunted house - and there was the ghostly Jones chasing them around - before the serious business of breaking hearts began. Surely few in contemporary music have broken more hearts that Jimmy Iovine.

So his asides offered their usual pricelessly cutting value. Skylar Laine is "bigger than she was last night." However, Iovine is does not enjoy infallibility. He declared of Elise Testone: "She blew my mind."

But did she blow the little girl voters' minds? Do they even have minds? Testone was told she was in the bottom three. Her expression described the feelings of a little girl who has just had her doll confiscated after she's thrown spaghetti at the wall. It was as if she thought, "What the hell do I have to do to please these people?" The answer, perhaps, is to look like Ken.

"Give Your Heart a Break," sang Demi Lovato, as if in sympathy with Testone. Lovato's performance should have made Testone feel much better, as she showed that, despite being famous, she is interestingly pitchy when she sings live.

Iovine returned to explain to the elderly judges that, ultimately, it is always the singers who choose the songs. Iovine merely helps them to understand whether the songs sound any good.

Iovine's view of Magrane was that "when she pushes, she shows her weaknesses." Seacrest pushed her towards the jeopardy stools.

Thus far, the stools were only occupied by girls. Would at least one boy join them?

Iovine believes there will be an Asian pop explosion. But he is also convinced that Heejun Han needs to do something different. Erika Van Pelt, on the other hand, perhaps tried to be too different. It was she who was sent to the stools.

So here we were, two of the more mature women in the competition and Shannon Magrane - daughter of World Series pitcher Joe Magrane.

Jennifer Lopez declared, "I'm not happy. I don't think it's fair."

Fair doesn't exactly rear its pretty head very often in show business. It certainly doesn't on "Idol."

Testone's relief at being told she was, after all, safe, was a picture. A picture of relief mixed with the desperate hope, perhaps, that Hilfiger could suddenly fashion an image for her - one that might endear her more to those who don't appreciate her subtleties.

Van Pelt clenched her fists and squatted with joy at being told she was not only safe, but would, as part of Idol's Top 10, be going on tour to places such as, well, San Jose.

Magrane would have to sing for her life. Lopez began to mime along with her and stopped herself. Magrane's mom was under no strictures at all. She kept on miming along, as her daughter tried again to perform "One Sweet Day." It seemed an odd decision to reprise the very same song for which the viewers had voted her last.

The minute she had finished, the judges' somber faces were not those of savers, but of condemners. Lopez, as is her habit when pushing and shoving are adjacent, didn't even want to look toward her.

Seacrest asked the judges whether they would use their one season save.

"Unfortunately, we're not going to use it tonight, Shannon," said Jackson.

And so we were left to ponder the celebrated words of Steven Tyler when he first met Magrane at rehearsals. When he talked to her father about the weather, Tyler had said: "Hot, humid and happening. Just like your daughter."

This had, quite understandably, not gone down so well with her dad. Now, regretfully, she was not happening any more.

What this showed is that you can give Lopez goosies one week, but the next it could well be noosies.