by Vera H-C Chan So what do the boys need? A night at the sweat lodge? Buddhist chants? A marathon viewing of "The Hurt Locker" on a loop? While the painful jitters have eased up, the boys to men on " American Idol " aren't putting on the best reality show on earth. EW finds the week's improvement a case of going " from woeful to middling ." VH1 agreed that the men stepped up, but the night " was still pocked with pitchy renditions,