Hollywood week started on December 9th 2003
Tony Bennett made a cameo appearance. He was in the airport when the contestants arrived.
Ryan had a poll for AT&T uses to text whether they thought Simon was more mean, less mean or the same from last year. The initial results shown towards the end of the episode were: Less mean 33%, more mean 30% and the same 37%. Final results were revealed the next day on the website.
Differences from last year: One round they had to compose their own melody to lyrics of five original songs with only lyrics.
This was a special hour and a half episode
Here is the list of the 32 semi-finalist: Ashley Hartman, Bettis Richardson, Candice Coleman, Charles Grigsby, Chip Days, Clay Aiken, Corey Clark, Equoia Coleman, Frenchie Davis, George Trice, Hadass Halev, Jacob Smalley, J.D. Adams, Jennifer Fuetes, Jordan Segundo, Joshua Gracin, Julia DeMato, Kimberly Caldwell, Kimberly Kelsey, Kimberley Locke, Lashundra Cobbins, Louis Gazzara, Meosha Denton, Nasheka Siddall, Patrick Fortson, Patrick Lake, Rebecca Bond, Rickey Smith, Ruben Studdard, Samantha Cohen, Sylvia Chibilti, and Vanessa Olivarez
There was no monologue at the beginning of this episode. It started with the opening credits.
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