Earlier today I thought for sure I would be declaring Lee DeWyze the winner at this point.

But now I am not so sure.

Crystal "MamaSox" Bowersox seems to have edged him, especially with that last song.

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8:48 p.m. -So MamaSox gets a cover tune, too, with "Up to the Mountain."

This song seems made for her, and she sang the mess out of it. I got chills when she sang "It's been a long time coming." You could tell she almost broke down and started bawling.

She actually had a moment there. Wow.

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Let the rumble begin!

Crystal "MamaSox" Bowersox and Lee DeWyze better bring their total "A" game tonight because Lord knows we have been waiting for it all season.

The show just began and even though this is the finale we all knew was going to happen, I am still excited to see how the two Midwesterners are going to fare.

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We’ve finally made it to the Top 2 on “American Idol” ... and I am divided.

My heart says Crystal “MamaSox” Bowersox deserves to win, but my mind is telling me Lee DeWyze will take the title. Let’s be honest here: Inevitably, Lee will appeal to the tweens and teens that seem to make up the majority of the voting body.

The pair take to the stage Tuesday night for their last shot to impress “Idol” voters.

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Even if you’re not interested in seeing what shenanigans Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha can get into in Abu Dhabi, odds are that someone you know is, and they've already got a ticket.

Ticket sales for the sequel to “Sex and the City” are currently 81 percent of ticket sales happening on Fandango.com, according to a statement from the website. The movie opens in theaters Thursday at midnight.

According to a survey Fandango issued Monday of more than 2,000 ticket buyers – of which 94 percent were women, the statement noted – nearly 80 percent of the moviegoers are going in groups with other women, while only 7 percent are going to bring a date.

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Whether she’s searching for her true love - astronaut Mike Dexter - on “30 Rock,” or impersonating Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live,” Tina Fey always knows how to make us laugh.

That’s why Fey, who recently starred in “Date Night” with Steve Carell, will be presented with the most prestigious award a funny person could ask for: The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

The award has previously been given to influential humorists like Bill Cosby, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and George Carlin.

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Ever since he was a kid, Tom Cruise has known that he wanted to be a father.

“I always loved kids, but it was more than that,” the actor said in the June/July issue of Esquire magazine. “It was this thought: What would it be like, being a father? Being the kind of guy who takes care of things?”

Because, you see, Cruise is big on being the fixer. After his parents separated – his father was an electrical engineer who didn’t support the family “financially or spiritually” after the split, leaving Cruise to live “with the effects of that chaos” – a younger Tom sought ways to help out his mother, who would at times have three jobs.

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At the very least, Miley Cyrus is honest.

During a radio interview with “The Bert Show,” Miley Cyrus said she already knows the kind of comments that can be elicited from a mere mention of her name.

“If you say ‘Miley Cyrus,’ there’s going to be some type of bad press or controversy that comes with it,” the actress/singer said. “It’s just part of where I am in my life right now....It’s like when Hilary Duff started growing up off the Disney channel, everyone thought she was anorexic...just because when she goes out she doesn't look like a 12-year-old anymore. It's the same thing."

Well, Cyrus certainly no longer looks 12, as she proved in her latest music video for her single “Can’t Be Tamed.” But she maintains that nothing she does is for shock value.

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[Editor's Note: You know the drill by now. If you haven't seen the season finale of "Chuck" yet, DON'T READ ANY FURTHER.]

The Buymore has burned down, a Bartowski is gone and Chuck is out of the spy game. That's where we've ended after the finale. But as we all know, everything could change in a flash.

When we last saw Chuck, he was writing his “spy will.” (Don't worry, season four is already planned. Chuck isn't going anywhere.) Meanwhile, Ellie Bartowski gets her life flipped upside-down. Instead of working at a hospital, she's now in the care of a CIA agent who we all believe is a Ring operative.

Speaking of Ring agents: Daniel Shaw is back. The last time we saw Shaw he was floating down a river in Paris, riddled with bullets. And while we saw a picture of Shaw in the last episode, it took Chuck chasing him through a subway and security tapes to prove he's alive and not a figment of his fractured mind.

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Someone will be holding the mirror ball trophy on “Dancing With the Stars” tonight, but will it be ESPN correspondent Erin Andrews, Olympic skating champ Evan Lysacek or singer Nicole Scherzinger?

Whoever the winner is, he or she will be exhausted by the time the season finale ends. The couples have to perform four dance routines spread over two nights before one of them will be declared the champ.

Last night, each of the couples danced a “redemption dance” (one that the judges felt they should have excelled in but didn’t when they first danced it earlier in the season) and a freestyle routine, in which there are no rules and anything goes.

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