Question: Who isn't an attention-gobbling camera hog?

a) Antonella Barba

b) Frenchie Davis

c) Najee Ali

Answer: It's a trick question. They all are.

Civil-rights activist Mr. Ali on Tuesday led a protest against the revanchist, patriarchal, capitalist exploiters otherwise known as the producers of American Idol at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

The sore point: American Idol's presumed double standard regarding saucy photographs. Ms. Davis (African-American, rotund) was kicked off Idol in the second season for once appearing on an adult Web site. Ms. Barba (white, teeny-weeny) has lingered on in the current season despite – or because of – the barely clad stills that have made her one of the most downloaded women on the Internet.

Ms. Davis, who is performing in Rent on Broadway, was to address the rally by phone.

"I think it's fantastic if Idol has evolved and I think it's fantastic she won't have to go through what I went through four years ago," Ms. Davis told the New York Post. "But if the rules have changed, I believe there should be something to make up for the fact that I was humiliated needlessly."

From staff and wire reports