Sherman Pore

[maggiespk]

Hey! I shed a tear. He was so sweet and it was really, really touching!:mecry:

[sandy]

Hey! I shed a tear. He was so sweet and it was really, really touching!:mecry:

Was he the old guy? If so, that was a very nice story.

[Dea]

I thought he had a nice voice too......
It was nice that they all shook his hand and hugged him....

[Helen]

He was on a lot of shows on Fox alone today and they all had him sing. Sang to Kellie Pickler tonight and she even had tears when he was talking bout his wife. He is a real crooner and I hope he can go somewhere with his voice in spite of the age. I cried too.

[maggiespk]

He is such a gentleman.

Can feel his love for his wife through his song:love: :love: :love:

[yayamiddlesister]

I think they should let him sing on the finale! Wouldn't that be great?

[maggiespk]

Yeah! That is a good suggestion!

[TaylorHicksRocks]

Posted by Laura Saltman February 01 at 06:22 PM

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.


"Pore" Sherman never in a million years thought his auditioning for "American Idol" would snowball into this. He truly just wanted to honor the commitment he made to his lady friend, Melissa Miller, who passed away two days before the audition from cancer at the young age of just 54. They met in a local production of South Pacific in Encino, California, "I slid up along side her one day, she was looking really cute and I just gave her one of these throaty, wolfy growls and she smiled at me and we started going from there." They had been together twenty years.

With tears in his eyes Sherman relayed the story of how they hatched the plan for him to audition for "American Idol." After being diagnosed, Melissa was given three to five months to live, "She and I had this Lance Armstrong philosophy. We were going to outdo it. We were very optimistic and I thought the best way to keep the optimism going was to keep on singing the love songs that I had sang to her on the way home from work everyday. Every night on the way home I would be coming down the hallway of that hospital singing to her and trying to carry some of that brightness to her."

One night they were watching "American Idol." "She has been telling me for years to do something with the singing. She has been prodding me and encouraging me. Finally, when she got into the hospital I thought we need something positive so I am going to do something that all along I have been promising to do. So, she and I read this article in the paper about "American Idol" was going to audition in August and that was three weeks away so she and I cooked up this plan for this audition."

After standing in line for six hours he finally got up to the front of the line. "When I got up there, they were ready for me and they said 'Hey for you this one time, one time only - our limit is 28 but we are going to let you try it.'"

Melissa, whose father Marvin Miller was a famous voiceover artist who narrated Disney's "Sleeping Beauty," passed away just a few days before Sherman was to audition in front of Simon, Randy, Paula and Olivia Newton- John, "She passed away around 11:00 on Friday morning and for the next day and a half I was sitting around the apartment dumping several buckets of tears. I don't know what I was looking for but I was looking up in our bookcases and all of a sudden I spotted some cards that she and I had exchanged over the years. Each time I would pull a card out there was another thing she had written to me that to me was a message from her and she said 'Stop your crying, get off your tail and go out and do what you promised.' So, on Sunday morning I was there. I knew she was in the room with me. I was sure of it."

Needless to say at this point in the interview, with Billy, most everyone on our stage and in the control room was in tears. Things got weepier when Sherman sang us the same song he did on Idol and broke down half way through. This guys got a huge heart and I'd pick hanging out talking to Sherman any day over interviewing a spoiled celebrity. My favorite moment was when I asked him what he did for work. He told me right now he fixes furnaces and does electrical work but said that back in the seventies and eighties he designed the machine that made the mold for seamless bras, "If you are wearing a seamless bra, I probably had my hand in it."

A sweet man with a big heart and a great sense of humor to boot! The ladies will surely be lined up around the corner should he be ready to date again. Billy definitely was thinking what I was when he asked if Sherman would be able to love again, "Yeah, I can love but there is always going to be a big place for her. Always. Yeah, but I think it's because she wants me to because that's the kind of person she was."

[frank]

Here's a thought, why not let everyone with a terminally ill spouse eulogize their dying partner on Idol...What the Hell, we can change the name of the show to "Obituary Idol"

[TaylorHicksRocks]

Here's a thought, why not let everyone with a terminally ill spouse eulogize their dying partner on Idol...What the Hell, we can change the name of the show to "Obituary Idol"

Hey he had an idea and went with it........it worked so why not sing a song to his lost love.........

[lizzyj]

Here's a thought, why not let everyone with a terminally ill spouse eulogize their dying partner on Idol...What the Hell, we can change the name of the show to "Obituary Idol"

Or, we could only allow the ones that are willing to air the sad stories. I don't think people should tell the stories about their terrible homelife while trying to make it on the show. Sad? yes it is, but this is about singing.

Now, i'm not talking about that older man, he knew he wasn't going to Hollywood. I'm speaking of the others.

Maybe we should start a thread and post our sad stories and crown the saddest person here Idolme Idol....teetee.

[frank]

Hey he had an idea and went with it........it worked so why not sing a song to his lost love.........here's a thought...Just who was he singing to? SHE'S DEAD!

[TaylorHicksRocks]

here's a thought...Just who was he singing to? SHE'S DEAD!

Yes we know that don't you believe that your loved ones can still hear you once they pass away.........I told my son his daddy is proud of him and knows that he is doing so good in school!!!!! I think anything is possible through Christ!

[frank]

Yes we know that don't you believe that your loved ones can still hear you once they pass away.........I told my son his daddy is proud of him and knows that he is doing so good in school!!!!! I think anything is possible through Christ!
Let's see if you can hear me now

[TaylorHicksRocks]

Let's see if you can hear me now

That's not even funny!!!!!!

[maggiespk]

Let's see if you can hear me now


Of course,we can't hear you, cos you do not believe in it in the first place.:)

[frank]

Of course,we can't hear you, cos you do not believe in it in the first place.:)what the hell are you talking about?

[sandy]

I wish frank would sing to me like Sherman sang to his wife:D

[TaylorHicksRocks]

I wish frank would sing to me like Sherman sang to his wife:D

PM him your phone number and he will......;)

[maggiespk]

here's a thought...Just who was he singing to? SHE'S DEAD!

I was referring to the above.

Hey! The dead can hear you!!! especially the loved ones:p

[Dea]

I guess it is the person who comes up with the idea first gets to run with it..
Hence....William Hung....

Now this guy came up with something and it is his to run with for as far
as he can take it....

Next season maybe someone else will come up with something else
original that will get them their 15 minutes of fame.....deserved or not...lol

[maggiespk]

I totally agree with you, Dea.

[flowbee]

If you would like to see Sherman come back on the FINALE show I have a petition if you would like to sign it. I am going to forward it the the AI producers. The day after the episode aired there was a segment of him on the Fox News channel and this is what he said....

“I was singing to her. I want to sing. I promised Melissa I would sing. I promised her I would sing as much, to as many, for as long as I possibly could and I told her that before she left me”.

Lets make that promise he made to Melissa come true. If he were to sing on the finale he could sing to MILLIONS......If you would like to sign the petition you can find it by going to the Yahoo search engine and then type in Sherman Pore petiion....the link is under Back Sherman Pore on the American Idol Season 6 Finale Show Petition.....Thanks for your support!!!!!

[maggiespk]

Great idea, Flowbee.