Can David Archuleta go it alone?

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Idol Talk: Results are Cooked?
Published 5/13/2008 at Yahoo! Buzz Log
Does David Cook have to watch his back now that David Archuleta's father has been banned from the set?  Did Jason Castro psychologically flub his lines, or was he undone by unwillingness to knuckle under the "Idol" machinery? And, seriously, how has Syesha Mercado managed to survive and flummox the critics? As "American Idol" careens to its crowning moment, many questions arise. Of course, the most paramount is who will win season 7. The contest was supposed to come down to second-chance Cinderellas Michael Johns and Carly ...

David Archuleta - More on Papagate
Published 5/13/2008 by mj at American Idol
... - you want to do good in front of them. … I think the show’s tough on these kids when you imagine that 25 or 30 million people could be watching you that night.” Indeed, Jeff Archuleta isn’t Idol’s first stage-parent-from-hell according to the stories I’ve heard… And there is more. Read what MTV, New York Magazine, Idolator, Good Morning America, and Entertainment Weekly have to say. ABC News even has a pictorial review ...

Nigel Lythgoe on Jeff Archuleta: It's about taking "some pressure away here"
Published 5/13/2008 by Adam B. Vary at Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
... that Jeff Archuleta, the father of 17-year-old Idol contestant David Archuleta, has been barred from participating in his son's preparations for the show. Here's what Lythgoe had to say: ...