The genius moment on tonight's somewhat dispiriting American Idol came when the erratic Leslie Hunt, having been eliminated in favor of a Jersey girl who can't sing at all and likes to flash her breasts, ad-libbed some new lines in her reprise of "Feeling Good": "Oh why did I decide to scat / America don't care for jazz...." Then again, America did seem to care for Melinda Doolittle's smokily beautiful rendition of "My Funny Valentine." America is, as ever, a mysterious place.
As usual, Jody Rosen has the nonpareil wrapup.
