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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:20 am
I told my dh last night that Mills is totally winning me over, despite the fact I don't want to be won over by her. LOL. Mind you, half the time she wears awful outfits. I am really blown away by Laila's dancing too... although her deep (steroid induced???) voice makes me crazy. I've NEVER heard a woman sound so masculine in all my born days.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:26 am
Once again... I think the judging is unfair. Carrie Ann was spot on when she said she had to deduct a point for Heather falling at the end. But then Len said he wouldn't? Um, hello... had that been any other dancer, you sure would've! I don't agree with Heather's marks last night... she was way too tentative for the entire first half of her dance. There were three lifts (feet completely leaving the floor) and the only one who got dinged was Clyde. And I truly do think that was an accidental lift because of his height! Apolo totally rocked it last night, and definitely deserved that 30. Joey's "feminism" was due to his arm extensions. He really did overdo it... he'd stop, extend an arm, and then kinda flip a wrist. Very much what a woman does and not what a man does. Karina cracks me up. She's ended up with a bit of a dud this season, no way is Billy Ray gonna make it to the top 2. She seems to have such a sour puss face on when they get scored. Billy Ray has absolutely NO rhythm... he's got lead feet on top of it. Which is kinda surprising since he's (reportedly) quite musical. (Never been a fan so I have no idea how musical he is.) I think the worst were Billy Ray, John, and Clyde, followed closely by Heather. I think the best was Apolo, followed by Laila. The rest are totally middle of the pack (Joey and Ian). Interestingly, the only real passion and sex I saw from anyone was Laila. She really embodied the sexual part of the rhumba... the tease with the sway of the hips. Apolo's dance wasn't really sexy, but he did embody the fun spirit of Carnivale! And FWIW, I thought the band did a heckuva better job on Besame Mucho than that kid on AI!!!
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Penpoint
Member
03-27-2001
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:33 am
Roxip, the presence of hair on a man's chest has nothing to do with the fastidiousness of his grooming.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:40 am
Does Billy Ray Cyrus have rhythm? Here's Exhibit A - YOU DECIDE. Personally I think he has some nice moves here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EebObs-vC0&mode=related&search=
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:43 am
I agree Penpoint... my dad was as almost as hairy as Robin Williams, and my dad was the cleanest, most fastidious man in the world!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:50 am
Billy Ray is getting on my last nerve! He is just doing this show to promote his new album. Asked last night 'how do you take the criticism?" well, i just work on my show Hannah Montana and am in the studio working on my album that's due to hit the stores x date' he never misses a chance to self promote..it's so overt it's sickening!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:56 am
Methinks Billy Ray already got on Annie's last nerve! But I agree... I noticed that he never answered the question and only talked about the show and his album. I'm kinda curious how they pick the "stars" for this show. There seems to be a bit of an unfairness... for example, Apolo is really light on his feet (and that could be a result of his ice skating). Whereas John has feet of lead (as does Billy Ray).
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:58 am
Texannie, I think if that's the case, and you're probably right, it was a HUGE miscalculation. Although he can probably do country and western steps, as per his genre, he is the proverbial fish out of water on this show. ETA Costa, I agree... also Clyde is also misplaced here... of the 3 of them, I prefer John, cuz at least he's got charisma. Clyde has that dazed puppy look, and Billy Ray looks clearly uncomfortable.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 8:00 am
I was trying to come up with a better word than effiminate...obviously I failed! (By the way I have a hairy/very clean dad too...who just celebrated his 80th birthday this past Saturday...I am a very lucky woman to still have both my parents.)
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 8:07 am
Don't feel bad Roxip, even though Joey is my fave, his 'overly-delicate' hand & wrist movements cracked me up and looked very girly/whimpy/effeminate/______fill in the blank! And for the record I am not attracted to overly hairy men, nor totally bald-chested men, I like a light yet healthy smattering of fuzz, just like my dh has... I tease him that if he had one hair more or one hair less on his chest... bye bye. (Since he's pretty bald-headed, it cracks us both up.) And truthfully I preferred whazzizname yesterday AFTER he got waxed!
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Lateeda
Member
12-01-2006
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 9:01 am
I agree w/who was really great and who wasn't so wonderful - Apolo, Joey, Laila & Ian all deserver props, not to mention their Pros who teach them. Side bar - could Laila be any prettier? OMStars! I remember her Dad always boasting how "pretty" he was, LOL, and he's got the offspring to prove it now. She ranks up there (if not moreso) with Halle Berry, as one of the most beautiful African-American women.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 9:58 am
She looked beautiful in that deep vibrant blue. I had to laugh - my daughter HATED Apollo's partner's costume. She is 10 and she really is somewhat of a prude when it comes to the womens' costumes (despite the fact that she loves wearing spaghetti straps and short-shorts). And she said "She's not wearing a bra, Mom!" I told her that if my girls were that firm and looked that good in that costume I wouldn't be either. I thought she was going to stone me! Okay, and on that note, did anybody else notice that Clyde's partner's "girls" weren't on an even keel last night when they came downstairs for the intro?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:56 am
Roxip, hon, I hate to admit this, but I'm pretty much NOT looking at the girls' "girls"! Just sayin'! <grin>
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 11:05 am
I sure was looking at Ian's clothing. 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 11:16 am
LOL cost, yep.pretty much. but last night was the proverbial last straw. he is the worst self promoter i think i have seen in a long time!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 11:41 am
I was looking at Jonathan's chest to see if he had bumps left over from the waxing...LOL! And Max's chest...it always looks good.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 11:44 am
Sue me, I always look at the women's costumes first, (cuz they are so ornate) but not what's in them mind you. LOL.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 11:48 am
If they're worried about being accused of fixing if Cheryl wins again,how about finding new judges? I thought the song that was played for Apollo was fantastic. I like his partner but I didn't care for her hair. Sometimes less is more. Does Cyrus actually have lead feet? I move my feet more when I take a dump.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 12:06 pm
ROFLMAO KL!!!!!!!!!!! Gross, but funny...
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 12:06 pm
Loved Apolo!!! 
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Sportygirl
Member
06-14-2005
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 12:07 pm
I've only watched this show hit or miss this year but I feel bad for Clyde. He should go this week but his height is such a disadvantage. Couldn't they have partnered him with Edyta who at least looks like she is fairly tall and with heels on could possibly come to Clyde's shoulders. Can you imagine Apollo who is fairly short paired with Edyta who is taller than him? I love John. I know he won't win but he realizes it and just goes out, tries his best and has fun. I thought he was pretty light on his feet last night and loved the ending where he played the drums on Edyta's stomach. He made some missteps but he kept going so that the audience wouldn't pick up on it. I agree that Apollo and Laila were the best last night although Laila looked more passionate during their rehearsal than during their performance.
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Penpoint
Member
03-27-2001
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 12:53 pm
I think John is pretty light on his feet; he moves his feet and does the steps well. It's just his body that doesn't cooperate on many of these dances. His body is not flexible; he can't swing his hips or bend his waist because of his build. Otherwise, John does a credible job. Also, he's in my age group, so I can identify with the effort he has to make.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 12:58 pm
My problem with Clyde is that he really isn't trying very hard. This past show he basically just stood in the middle of the stage and his partner danced around him (I saw it referred to on another site as basically he was the pole and his partner danced around him...LOL!). I borrowed this from TV Guide... Backstage at Dancing with the Stars: Clyde Says, "I'm Out!" by Deborah Starr Seibel Dancing with the Stars' Clyde Drexler and Elena Grinenko Clyde Drexler thinks he's toast. "I'm out," says the NBA Hall of Famer, looking into his crystal ball and seeing his own elimination on Tuesday night's Dancing with the Stars results show. "I'm off the show. And if this isn't it, I'm gonna break a leg or something." One week after head judge Len Goodman read the celebrities the riot act about not practicing long enough and hard enough, the DWTS judges seemed in a lighter, more forgiving mood. But Drexler still managed to take significant body blows. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba called him flat out, "the worst dancer in the competition." As a group, the judges seem dismayed that he's not improving and not more like a couple of super athletes who came before him: Football greats Jerry Rice (Season 2) and Emmitt Smith (Season 3's champ). "The judges have been really cruel," says Drexler. "But that's OK. It gets me closer to my golf game." The real surprise may be that Drexler hasn't been turned off dancing for good. It can't be easy being mediocre and getting terrible scores when people like boxing champ Sugar Ray Leonard are sitting ringside. But Drexler remains philosophical about ballroom dance. "It's one of those things that you try it and see if you like it. I would try it again. This isn't American Idol. I'm not aspiring to be a professional dancer." His professional partner, Elena Grinenko, agrees. "You don't teach dance like this in the studio," she says. "You take it slowly. You let the students enjoy what they're doing. If you tried to teach me to sing in four days? It's never gonna happen." Still, two other couples managed to overcome the terrible time constraints and electrify the crowd. The one and only standing ovation was for Apolo Anton Ohno and his pro partner, Julianne Hough, who did a shake-the-rafters samba and earned the season's first triple-10 — a perfect score of 30. "I was nervous going into that dance," Ohno said after the show. "I'm not gonna lie." The reason? One big, risky move toward the end of the dance, when Hough stood on one leg, basically doing the splits with her head toward the floor, and swinging her free leg past Ohno's face. "I told him, ‘Do not think about it,'" says Hough. "Because if you think about it, we're gonna get it wrong." Ohno admits he was worried: "If we got it wrong, I'd have a shoe in my ear." You'd never know it, but Ohno — a two-time Olympic-gold-medal speed skater who looks like a natural on the dance floor — says he's been feeling shaky. "I've been struggling with my confidence," says Ohno. "Because I'm not confident." Then he corrects himself. "On the ice, I'm confident." So what does an Olympian do to shake off the dance nerves? "You can't think about who got what scores before you, and who's gonna come after you, and the scores they're going to give you after you perform. All you can think about is the dance, try to perform for the audience and try to own the stage." The other electrifying moment of the night came when Heather Mills slipped and fell at the very end of her routine. The crowd gasped as her foot went right out from under her and she landed on her backside, unhurt. "I could have wept when she fell," says Florence Henderson, who was in the audience. "But god bless her, she's such an inspiration. And always with a smile." Mills herself says the fall was nothing. "The thing that hurt was when I dropped to my knees (a planned bravado move during the dance) and bent back. Look at all the bruises." She brushes her dance skirt aside to show off her right knee, which is all shades of purple. "That's from the week of rehearsing. The actual fall didn't hurt at all. I'm so used to falling. I'm used to walking around in 5-inch heels. Most people with two legs fall over in those." Another very real pain is being felt by her pro partner, Jonathan Roberts. No matter what the show's producers would have you believe, it was not Heather's idea to have Roberts wax his chest. "It was actually some friends of ours in England," says Roberts. "We were all joking about watching a movie [The 40-Year-Old Virgin] where they saw the guy getting his chest waxed. I'm the only guy on this show with a lot of hair on my chest. And I don't have a lot of tan. I'm not that stylish." You couldn't tell on camera because his chest was covered with dark bronze body makeup. But up close, you could see that the whole area was covered with tiny raised bumps from the waxing. Does he have a better understanding now of what women go through? "Oh, I think women are so much tougher than men," says Roberts. "This hurt so much." "They didn't even trim the hair first," says Mills. "I think they really wanted him to suffer for the camera."
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Jezzedout
Member
09-07-2006
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 1:24 pm
Apolo and Julianne were AMAZING !!! I agree with Len in that it was the perfect combination of music and dancing that made that performance electrifying. I'm disappointed for Cheryl and Ian. I've grown to like her a lot from the past two seasons, and I've always thought Ian was sexy, so I was thrilled when I realized he was paired with her because I think Cheryl could teach almost anybody to dance well. I do think the judges are being a little more critical of them this season, but hopefully the fans will keep them around. Looking forward to Apolo's encore tonight!! Oh... and I used 10 of my 11 votes for John ((-:
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Pamy
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01-02-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 1:26 pm
KL!!! you made me spit my tea!!!!!!!!!!
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