''Today was absolutely dreadful.'' That's Simon Cowell talking between long drags on a cigarette in Randy Jackson's windowless, basement-level dressing room at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. It's American Idol's ''Hollywood Week,'' when 173 hopefuls sing in hastily assembled groups, forget the simplest of lyrics, and pick pointless fights like eighth graders. They'll eventually be whittled down to just 24........
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