| From: LindyBill | 10/17/2011 6:46:13 PM | | | | | | 'Dancing with the Stars' Week 5 Preview: The '80s Return
Monday, October 17, 2011
Laurel Brown
Staff Writer, BuddyTV
For the eight couples who remain to compete on Dancing with the Stars season 13, things will be going seriously retro. It's '80s Week at Dancing with the Stars, a signal for (big) bad hair, rockin' pop music and a whole lot of cheesy jokes from Tom Bergeron. But what else can we expect?
According to what ABC has let slip about the days to come, week 5 will feature special guests along the lines of The Bangles and Kelly Clarkson.
Monday Night
We can expect The Bangles to break with standard DWTS formatting and perform on Monday -- not Tuesday -- night this week. This biggest of girl pop bands from the '80s will give us renditions of their hits "Manic Monday," "Eternal Flame" and "Walk Like an Egyptian" during the week 5 performance show.
Considering how rarely we get a musical act without professional dancers, I'm really looking forward to a ballroom interpretation of "Walk Like an Egyptian..." The stupid walking! The costumes!
There will also, of course, be dancing and competition this Monday on Dancing with the Stars. Each couple will perform one of the dances they haven't yet tackled, which means we get:
- Ricki Lake and Derek Hough: Foxtrot
- J. R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff: Samba
- Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy: Tango
- Rob Kardashian and Cheryl Burke: Rumba
- David Arquette and Kym Johnson: Tango
- Nancy Grace and Tristan MacManus: Rumba
- Carson Kressley and Anna Trebunskaya: Jive
- Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer: Samba
Tuesday Night
The fun doesn't stop on Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday night! (You know, unless you're the eliminated dancer. In that case, it stops.) More musical acts, along with the requisite dancing, will be in the ballroom for Dancing with the Stars: The Results Show.
What can we expect?
- Kelly Clarkson: She will be performing "Mr. Know It All" (off of her upcoming album) and "Walk Away."
- The Band Perry: If you're like me and don't know much of anything about country music, you'll be happy to learn that this group was nominated for five Country Music Awards this year. That means they're probably good. The Band Perry will be performing their hit, "If I Die Young."
- "At&T Spotlight Performance": This is apparently a recurring feature, this time showcasing a young woman named Charm Ladonna, dancing with Mark Ballas and Derek Hough.
And to amuse you until then...
The competitors and hosts of Dancing with the Stars paid a visit to Dr. Phil on Monday, October 17. In addition to a lot of talking, there was some dancing. And it's not all from the people you would expect.
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(Image courtesy of ABC, video courtesy of CBS)
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| From: LindyBill | 10/18/2011 7:20:16 AM | | | | | | Dancing With the Stars’: Time for ’80s night
By Emily Yahr
Cheryl and Rob, Karina and J.R., and Derek and Ricki all survived to get to this week’s performance show. (Adam Taylor - ABC)
It’s '80s night on “Dancing With the Stars” — the only place in the world where ‘80s-themed outfits would be considered “tame.”
The Bangles kick things off with “Eternal Flame” and “Walk Like an Egyptian,” because we’re sure to be reminded about 100 times in the next two hours, the theme is the 1980s. This Bangles performance is giving us “Gilmore Girls” flashbacks — if anyone understands that reference, it will reveal the elusive “Dancing With the Stars”/“Gilmore Girls” crossover audience, if there is one.
Brooke Burke Charvet is wearing a blue spangled dress with monstrous shoulder pads, and she looks like she belongs on a spaceship. Tom Bergeron makes fun of her shoulder pads, as he should.
U.S. women’s soccer team’s Hope Solo and Maks Chmerkovskiy
Dance: Tango to Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On a Prayer”
The show is trying to push Maks and Hope’s “love-hate” relationship, but there’s a whole lot of hate in this rehearsal footage. They bicker as Hope forgets the steps and mocks Maks’s instruction technique. During the actual dance, Hope is dressed in a super-scary red trench coat, which she whips off to reveal a lot of mesh. After they whip around the dance floor to a Bon Jovi song, Hope pushes Maks out of the way and pretends to rock out at a microphone to karaoke.
Len calls Hope too “willowy,” and that she showed a lack of strength. Bruno disagrees, calling her “strong, sexy and powerful.” Carrie Ann plays peacemaker and agrees with both of them, but then the judges all start yelling at each other, and even Tom Bergeron can’t calm them down. The Celebriquarium gets some extra time tonight, so Brooke asks about that “love-hate relationship.” Hope sweetly says that they love to hate each other, while Maks calls their relationship “productive.” Ouch! Scores: 8, 8, 8 for a total of 24 points.
Style expert Carson Kressley and Anna Trebunskaya
Dance: Jive to Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”
Carson knows he was close to going home last week, so he jazzes things up in rehearsal with leg warmers to get in the ‘80s mood. He also tries to practice a great deal, but it doesn’t seem to be helping — even Anna knows their exit is only a matter of time. Dressed in impossibly bright colors, they perform the most frightening cheerleading routine ever disguised as a jive, with pom poms that Tom Bergeron calls “Big Bird wrist warmers.”
Bruno calls it loopy, and when Bruno is questioning your grasp on reality, you know you’re in trouble. “It was definitely ... fun,” Carrie Ann says cautiously, and says that even though it was entertaining, there was zero technique. Len agrees that the dance was fun, but unfortunately, they’re not judging for fun. Scores: 6, 6, 7 for a total of 19 points.
Commentator Nancy Grace and Tristan Macmanus
Dance: Rumba to Spandau Ballet’s “I Know This Much Is True”
Speaking of cheerleaders, what was Nancy Grace doing in the ‘80s? Yes, she was a cheerleader — the show’s got pictures to prove it. Then, Tristan criticizes Nancy’s listening skills, and she accuses him of not making their dance sexy enough. They argue some more, but you get the feeling that they are two partners who actually don’t hate each other, which, for this show, is actually sort of sweet. Or, Tristan has the patience of a saint. Anyway, they smile through the whole song, though Nancy looks like she’s going over the steps carefully in her head the whole time.
Carrie Ann says she wants to see passion and more of a connection between the dancers, and disagrees with Len’s preference for non-raunchy dancing. Len says the dance was simple, and Bruno accuses Carrie Ann of being jealous of Nancy’s boy toy and thinks the dance was just sexy enough. Scores: 7, 7, 8 for a total of 22 points.
Another Bangles break — this time, they sing “Manic Monday” while dancers in legwarmers spin around on stage.
Actor J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff
Dance: Samba to “Conga”
Bruno assesses J.R.’s dance skills before they begin, and says most men can’t do the samba, with flashbacks of failures from previous seasons. (Hello, Billy Ray Cyrus!) So, if J.R. can do the samba, Bruno will be really impressed.
J.R. struggles in rehearsal and feels he needs to get in touch with his Latin roots, so he and Karina head to the Conga Room nightclub in Los Angeles. Aside from a random Sheila E. sighting, J.R. also learns that he needs to just let loose in order to conquer the samba. J.R. indeed shakes to the samba, with some especially impressive shoulder movements.
The judges are thrilled to actually see some dancers with skills, which causes Bruno to declare J.R. a “loin-shattering sex machine” (seriously) while a flustered Carrie Ann screams “Muy caliente!” and completely loses her composure. Scores: 9, 9, 10 for a total of 28 points.
Reality star Rob Kardashian and Cheryl Burke
Dance: Rumba to Lionel Richie’s “Hello”
Cheryl is shocked that Rob has made it this far in the competition. Rob says he’s going to try to be as sexy as Maks or Derek during their rumba this week, and Cheryl plainly tells him that’s not going to happen. Instead, to teach Rob about sensuality on the dance floor, she brings in ... Romeo, a competitor from last season and one of Rob’s buddies from college. It’s not a helpful lesson, but during the actual performance, Rob definitely does not look like he is dancing with his sister. And according to Cheryl, that’s the goal.
Carrie Ann calls Rob the tortoise from “The Tortoise and the Hare,” and says he’s slowly making progress each week — and even managed to look sexy in a lime green shirt. Even Len says Rob looked masculine. Scores: 9, 8, 8 for a total of 25 points.
Activist Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer
Dance: Samba to Kool & the Gang’s “Get Down on It”
Chaz isn’t feeling the samba. “I feel nervous to get up and make spectacles,” Chaz confesses to Lacey, who laughs in his face: “Good job of joining ‘Dancing With the Stars’!” To get Chaz over being so shy, Lacey brings in her dad, dance coach Buddy Schwimmer, to help. Buddy seems pretty excellent, and tries to get Chaz to shake to the samba without shame. It appears to work — Chaz seems a bit lighter on his feet this week, with only a slightly embarrassed look on his face as he shimmies around on the dance floor.
Carrie Ann says she actually saw some dancing from Chaz, which is a huge improvement from previous weeks, when there was none. Len calls it a gallant effort, and Bruno says that J.R. was a tough act to follow (see above and “loin-shattering sex machine”), but he thinks Chaz still did well. Scores: 7, 7, 7 for a total of 21 points.
Actor David Arquette and Kym Johnson
Dance: Tango to Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love”
David Arquette looks like a character from an ‘80s movie already, so this week should be a good fit for him — he also wins points (in our book, anyway) by making fun of Len during rehearsal. David rambles about making a connection between the music and the dance and says he just wants to show the audience he actually has skill. Clad in what looks like a leather bodysuit with lots of zippers, David takes the tango very seriously and scowls through the whole performance.
Sure enough, Len says it has a very ‘80s feel and loved the dance. Bruno’s also a fan, and Carrie Ann says while he’s steady on his feet, he needs to work on his musicality. The judges all start yelling over each other, and Tom Bergeron is successful in breaking up the bickering this time. Scores: 8, 9, 8 for a total of 25 points.
Talk show host Ricki Lake and Derek Hough
Dance: Fox trot to Phil Collins’s “Easy Lover”
Ricki and Derek trade stories about what they were doing in the 1980s. Derek says he was a fetus, and then a baby — Derek is very literal. Ricki says she was “eating,” as she played the plus-size lead in “Hairspray.” And who should stop by rehearsal to say hello? “Hairspray” director John Waters, who tells Ricki she’s doing a great job. While she and Derek do a fairly impressive fox trot, they make the unfortunate decision of starting the routine with a disastrous Running Man dance.
The judges all ask wonder what in the world they were thinking with the Running Man, and Len says it wasn’t their best dance of the season, but it wasn’t the worst either. Scores: 8, 8, 8 for a total of 24 points. Derek blames the type of dance/song combination, saying they didn’t go well together.
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| From: LindyBill | 10/18/2011 7:29:49 AM | | | | | | I am enjoying "Sons" but not "Dead." Smart of Harley Davidson to sponsor "Sons"
‘Sons of Anarchy’ vs. ‘Walking Dead’: Bikers and zombies battle for headlines
By Lisa de Moraes
Ron Perlman in “Sons of Anarchy” (Prashant Gupta - FX)
A zombie from the second season of “The Walking Dead.” (Gene Page - AP) The gates of Hades flew open Monday when FX’s bikers and AMC’s zombies began to battle for control of — headlines.
It all started when FX announced it had ordered a 13-episode fifth season of “Sons of Anarchy” because the biker drama was having its best season ever, starting with a fourth-season debut that had attracted 6.5 million people back in September — the most watched telecast in FX history, the basic cable network bragged.
Less than one hour later, AMC and its hoarde of zombies announced the second-season debut of “The Walking Dead” on Sunday had attracted more than 7 million followers, ripping the guts out of the motorcycle gang’s juicy talking point.
Things were not looking good for Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman, Katey Sagal and the rest of the “SOA” family.But, say what you like about the bikers of “SOA” — they don’t go down without a fight.
On a first-run basis, season four of “SOA” is averaging just under 4 million 18-49 year olds — the audience advertisers lust after. That makes it the No. 1 ranked scripted series on basic cable, FX boasted.
Faster than you can say “scary sci-fi people watch pots of TV,” zombie-harboring AMC noted the second-season debut of “Walking Dead” had bagged 5 million 18-49-year-olds — more than any other basic cable drama in TV history — gnawing second talking point to the bone.
With undead snapping at his ankles, FX chief John Landgraf bravely began to brandish Shakespearan references, comparing “Sons of Anarchy to “Hamlet,” claiming Kurt Sutter’s profanity-laced drama brings “ the themes of a great, ancient play like ‘Hamlet’ into a wholly original television setting and to tell this complex story in a way that is both riveting and accessible to a broad audience.”
AMC president Charlie Collier, unlike some in Hollywood, isn’t scared off by Shakespearean references; he spit on his hands and came right back with — schtick:
“That ‘The Walking Dead’ is now the most watched drama in the history of basic cable, against key demographics, is staggering — just like our zombies,” Collier shot back. |
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| From: LindyBill | 10/19/2011 5:09:33 AM | | | | | | | One minor reality show I enjoy is "Chasing Classic Cars." I guess it's my BG selling cars to make my way though college that is responsible. It just started it's new season on Tuesday night on the "Velocity" channel. |
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| To: Stan who wrote (6239) | 10/19/2011 6:57:37 PM | | From: Justin C | | | | | Today I saw a brief TCM ad with vacationing Robert Osborne casually dressed and saying he'll be returning. He looked and sounded great, with none of the slight speech difficulty that I was hearing before his medical/vacation leave. I read that he's returning in early December. |
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| To: LindyBill who wrote (6329) | 10/20/2011 2:16:52 AM | | From: Uncle Frank | | | | | I was watching the X Factor, hoping it would turn into an interesting show. But they try to fill a 2 hour slot with a 55 minute show by repeating the same material 3 and 4 times. And then they lost me completely with the eliminations fro 32-16. When they cut the beautiful Rugby player, I decided to cut my losses and drop the show from my watch list. |
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| To: Uncle Frank who wrote (6334) | 10/20/2011 2:38:13 AM | | From: LindyBill | | | | What happened is the World Series came up at the same time and they reran the previous week's shows on the West Coast and here. I stopped watching last week.
I liked the early entro, but not the LA segment. I think the "Little Orphan Annie" girl will win.
X Factor’ ratings take a dive on Sunday night
By Lisa de Moraes
“The X Factor” only copped 8.6 million viewers on Sunday night. (Jeffrey Niera - Fox)
Simon Cowell’s new “The X Factor” took a nosedive when rained-out baseball play that was moved into primetime on the east coast forced one of the singing competition’s two weekly episodes to move to Sunday night.
Only 8.6 million people watched the broadcast, in which X-testants continued to sing by the pools at Simon Cowell’s Chateau Les Girls somewhere in France, at LA Reid’s Boys Camp in the Hamptons, at Paula Abdul’s Mission Santa Paula in Santa Barbara, and at Nicole Scherzinger’s Malibu pad (360 ocean/jetliner views, with a lanai and a pool!).
That’s the show’s smallest audience so far this season, though Fox is certain to “special out” the episode, which means the puny ratings won’t be counted against the show’s season average and thwart British reality-TV impresario Cowell’s hopes of eventually achieving 20 million viewers for his franchise, in its U.S. iteration. |
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