"American Idol" Producers Play Scrooge

EXPLOITED: "Girls Gone Wild" honchos in more trouble

EXPLOITED: "Girls Gone Wild" honchos in more trouble

OCTOBER 30--Southern California may be in flames, but that's not stopping today's filming of the "American Idol" Christmas special at a Pasadena theater. But if press photographers want to record Ruben, Clay, and Kelly's staged holiday frolics, they'll have to sign the below agreement drafted by 19 Entertainment, the show's London-based producers. In return for access and $1, shutterbugs must actually agree to let the "Idol" bosses dictate when photos are published and must turn over all their images so that 19 Entertainment officials, if they choose, can use the material for promotional purposes for the singers (that's what the greenback must be for). And photojournalists must agree not to reveal any "confidential information" they may learn through their proximity to the "Idol" figures. What, like Ruben digs McGriddles and Clay's eyebrows aren't the only things he waxes? (1 page)