The Super Bowl is outstanding. The game is off to a wild start...boy am I glad NBC chose not to air "Grease" today. I'd be listening to the game with a hidden earpiece while doing the show.

I'm sitting in a skybox watching the game. Fergie and Josh Duhamel are in a box next to me with Terrence Howard and Vivica Fox. I am in man heaven right now.

I just love football.

Last night, South Beach was going off. J.Lo and Marc Anthony performed together on the beach at the Ocean Drive party. They were excellent together. A truly great performance. The best party of the night was the CAA party. The line up was very strong - Tom Cruise showed up and that got folks excited.

Katie Couric joined the 'NFL Today' guys on set before the game and her hair was teased like she was going out on a date. She looked as glamorous and sexy as I've ever seen her, and some will undoubtedly give her grief for that. It's because they just don't have anything nice to say. Katie should go with what makes her feel great and not worry about what's "appropriate" for an evening news anchor. That's a different era and she's a knockout.

That needed to be said.

And PRINCE.....wow, he is just the ultimate performer. His mystery and talent make it all worth it

Well, there is no denying that season three's Jennifer Hudson has become the shining example of post-Idol success. From here on out no one, who has been or will be a former American Idol contestant, can ever decide it's time to throw in the towel. You just never know when the hard work, dedication and persistence will pay off. I tracked down the other finalists from season three and found that not a single one has given up on their dreams. Many have gone on to bigger and better things.

Fantasia Barrino - The season three winner really put her heart and soul on the line this year with Lifetime's autobiographical TV movie, "The Fantasia Barrino Story," in which she also starred. Filming emotional scenes about her troubled life and raising a child as a single mother nearly brought her to her knees, "I can tell you that it was very hard for me. I went through so many emotions. There were times where I thought I wasn't going to be able to finish the movie. I didn't think I was able to do certain scenes. I would have to walk off and get to myself because I would break down. I would be like 'Oh my god, I can't do it. I can't. I need some time to myself' "

So much for that whole debate over whether or not "American Idol" is too mean this year. I spent the morning hanging out with Idol's sweetest reject story ever, the lovely Sherman Pore. As soon as my producing pal, Celeste, and I watched the show and saw his story about coming to the auditions (armed with a petition) to sing for his lady friend who had just passed from cancer, we knew we had to get Sherman on Access Hollywood. After several phone calls late last night, we were able to track him down. This morning (after a bit of in-fighting between another entertainment show) we finally worked it out for a car to pick up Sherman and bring him to Access Hollywood.

His interview on our stage, with Billy Bush, was scheduled for 10:30am and Sherman (who actually goes by his first name, Howard) arrived about 30 minutes early. Celeste and I bought him breakfast and then sat with him in our commissary chatting. Poor Sherman was completely overwhelmed. Everyone wants him today. Media outlets were calling left and right and his cell phone battery was dying. Poor guy had left his charger in a bag at the last interview he had done earlier that morning. I let him use my phone to call into his messages and he wasn't kidding. When I dialed into his voicemail (he couldn't see the numbers on my blackberry) it told me his mailbox was completely full.

by Kim Anastasia, director

In the summer of 2005, when we were in the process of designing our new set, our Executive Producer requested that we create a “Celebrity Signing Wall” - a place where the signatures/autographs of celebrities who appear on our stage could be forever immortalized.

We all agreed that this was a fantastic idea (why didn’t we do it before?!) We experimented with materials and lighting to get the best effect, and our Signature Wall was born. Jay Leno and The Rock were among the first to sign.

By current standards, i.e., the technology we have grown so accustomed to using in our daily lives, this is a relatively simple process. To me it is, as is most of technology, still magic, not because it is mysterious - the nuts and bolts of the process can be understood - but because it is completely wondrous.

What human beings have achieved in the last sixty years is phenomenal and, while one can safely argue that we must imbue every achievement with more wisdom, it is still nonetheless remarkable how far we’ve come. Using our Signature Wall as an example, the technology simply wasn’t available several years ago to do what we are doing now.

by John Murphy, Access camera operator

He may be sixty-one, but I hope I have Bob Seger’s energy and spirit when I’m his age.

It has been so long since his last tour that at least one original arena, The Boston Garden, where I last saw him play in 1980, fell years ago to a wrecking ball. A new corporate “Gaden” (Boston speak), where I again saw him perform last Saturday night, was erected in its place. Even he said he couldn't believe it’s been over 30 years since, Live Bullet, the double live album that sent him on the path to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Looking at his simplistic stage while shooting his sound check at Madison Square Garden, I might have surmised that Seger could ‘mail in’ his performances. But, watching him direct The Silver Bullet Band, I could see he was concerned with intricacies. He had the band replay one song's section several times fine tuning a heavily percussive beat.