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"Continuing the hunt for the next big act, America&amp;#039;s Got Talent headed to St Louis last night to check out what the city had in store. While judges Howard Stern, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandell had high hopes, could St Louis live up to their expectations?  First up tonight is 65-year-old puppeteer and proud ginger Tom Bonham, who keeps a tiny teddy bear on his shoulder that he controls via tiny strings. It&amp;#039;s all a bit creepy. And then he starts singing as he makes what I imagine is meant to be a baby kangaroo jump into its mothers pouch. There are also chickens, tiny wiffle balls pulled on string and a paper star.  It&amp;#039;s so bad you have to assume that it&amp;#039;s a joke... but it&amp;#039;s not. It&amp;#039;s a &amp;#039;no&amp;#039; buzz from Howard and Sharon, though Howie is extremely amused. He later calls it &amp;quot;atrocious&amp;quot; but says that he loves it anyway. Howard respects that Howie thinks Tom has talent but thinks that no good would come of it, so it&amp;#039;s a no, and Tom is heading home.  Next up is a down home country singer who&amp;#039;s in a band, but they... couldn&amp;#039;t make it. Instead, she gets on the drums and sort of yelps into the microphone with zero success - and a lot of boos. Howie even suggests that she&amp;#039;s lying about being in a band.  The next unnamed auditionee is a woman whose talent is... crushing full 7-Up cans with her bare hands. There&amp;#039;s also a man in a chicken suit doing the running man, and a cowboy who rides a unicycle while doing lasso tricks. Well, attempting to do them, anyway.  Clearly manipulating me by knowing my love of child acts, next up is 6-year-old Isaac Brown, a singer and dancer who is way too cute for his own good. He&amp;#039;s also hilarious and has a big personality once he hits the stage, so I&amp;#039;m a fan already. He takes on Jackson 5&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I Want You Back&amp;#039; and is actually quite good for a 6-year-old. He&amp;#039;s certainly too cute to be sent home.   Howie calls him a &amp;quot;superstar&amp;quot;, saying that he&amp;#039;s got the &amp;quot;whole package&amp;quot; even if he&amp;#039;s not the best singer. (Isaac replies: &amp;quot;All that matters is that it&amp;#039;s coming from your heart!&amp;quot;) Howard loves him already and Sharon agrees, insisting that he has star quality. We&amp;#039;ll be seeing Isaac again in Las Vegas, for sure.  Next, it&amp;#039;s escape artist Spencer Horseman - the world&amp;#039;s youngest, apparently. He believes it&amp;#039;s a lost art form and promises a &amp;quot;high risk factor&amp;quot; to his trick, which sees him in a straight jacket (of course), meaning he&amp;#039;ll have to escape while dangling upside down from a flaming rope, lest he be crushed between a spiked metal trap. Uh oh, sounds dangerous - but since it&amp;#039;s being shown on TV, something tells me it works out okay. Indeed it does.  Howie is a big fan of Houdini and believes that America will be &amp;quot;fascinated&amp;quot; by that type of act. Howard thought it was exciting but questions as to whether the trap would really have killed him if he failed. Sharon questions what other type of stunts he could do with this, and he does have quite a few ideas. It&amp;#039;s a yes for Spencer.  As for more successful dancers, there&amp;#039;s an &amp;#039;80s-inspired... Irish clog dancing group (?), a rocky violin player and a teen acoustic guitar player who&amp;#039;s popular with the girls - especially since he covers an Adele track.  As if things couldn&amp;#039;t get weirder, there&amp;#039;s a little person called &amp;quot;Little Ozzy&amp;quot; - that&amp;#039;s right, he&amp;#039;s an Ozzy Osbourne impersonator who really wanted Sharon to see him. It&amp;#039;s hard to tell whether Sharon is terrified or amused, but given her smile, I&amp;#039;ll go with the latter. He&amp;#039;s actually not the worst, and sings the track that Ozzy wrote for Sharon - &amp;#039;Mama, I&amp;#039;m Coming Home&amp;#039;.   Sharon says that she misses Ozzy more than usual (he&amp;#039;s away at a dog show, apparently) by hearing him sing that song. It&amp;#039;s a no from her though, as well as Howard and Howie. His consolation prize for being sent home empty-handed is being able to give Sharon a hug, which he seems to be quite happy with. Oh, well.  Because we need more sideshow acts (hint: we don&amp;#039;t really), there&amp;#039;s The Cut Throat Freak Show &amp;amp; Eric Odditorium. It&amp;#039;s two guys and a girl who walk bare feet on crushed beer bottles (and then jump on them and do handstands on them). One of the guys then picks up a chair via chains hooked... into his eyelids. The other guy also swallows a sword. It&amp;#039;s charming, except not.  Howard appreciates that they made the crowd go crazy and that they took something that&amp;#039;s been done a million times and made it new. Sharon, however, &amp;quot;just can&amp;#039;t&amp;quot;. Howie understands that the genre can be good even if some people will find it gross. He and Howard vote yes, while Sharon votes no. Still, two votes is enough and they&amp;#039;re through to Vegas. Next up is a very excited flannel-clad young man by the name of Ron Christopher Porter Jr who dreams of being a movie voiceover man. Fair enough. He&amp;#039;s actually really, really good at it! But who would watch a 90-minute show of him doing movie voiceovers? He should at least get a job out of this audition, anyway.   Howard buzzes him &amp;#039;no&amp;#039; right at the end. He doesn&amp;#039;t understand how it would be an act, and he&amp;#039;s right about that. Howard says no, as does Sharon, so it&amp;#039;s a no-go for our friend Ron. He then asks if he can have Nick&amp;#039;s job, and they tell him that he can at least hang out with him.  He helps to announce the next auditionee, Curtis Cutts Bey, a 51-year-old &amp;quot;singer&amp;quot; who attempts Rick James but is buzzed out by all three judges just a few notes into the song. They don&amp;#039;t give him much of an explanation, but they do thank him for his time. But then Nick and Ron come on stage and want him to have another chance. Oh, dear.  After dancing him off the stage, that&amp;#039;s it for St. Louis! Join us next Monday for more America&amp;#039;s Got Talent! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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