Well, I love Viennese Waltz and I actually like Paso Doble but just hate watching the latter on this show for some reason. Probably because they usually completely destroy the Latin flavor and set it to heavy metal music or something ridic. Anyway, here goes:
Chuck and Julianne’s VW: Aw, sweet! Love how it ended with him on one knee before her 🙂 I guess lifts are now allowed?
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Okay, at the very beginning you saw a clip of someone (I think it was Denise from last week) doing a crazy Jitterbug aerial (Jitterbug is a form of Lindy, or East Coast Swing). That is how people are fracturing tibia, etc. — not doing straight ballroom! I know Jewel was injured early on, but I’m sure they were practicing everything that was to come just to give the competitors an introduction. I don’t really know how I feel about the inclusion of these dances with rather difficult lifts and tricks in a show like this, where the vast majority of contestants are well into adulthood and have little dance and / or athletic training. We’ll see how this week’s dances go…
Kym Johnson and David Alan Grier Lindy Hop: Cute. That’s all I can really say though.
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So, the pairings have been announced:
Former NFL player Lawrence Taylor with Edyta Sliwinska;
Sex & City actor Gilles Marini with Cheryl Burke;
Rapper Lil’ Kim with Derek Hough;
Actress Denise Richards with Maksim Chmerkovskiy;
Pop star Belinda Carlisle with Jonathan Roberts (aw, that’ll be sweet);
I guess I’ll try to post the name-drops (for Dancing With the Stars Spring season 2009) as they’re announced. I think. Unless I get tired. Or need to get a cupcake. I should probably do that now…
Anyway, they’ve so far announced that new stars will include a famous male reality TV show star (who won’t be famous to me since I never watch reality TV), a football star, some kind of celebrity gossip show host, and someone else who I’ve already forgotten… When are they supposed to start announcing the names for real? It’s 8:30 already.
Okay, first four are:
1) Rapper L’il Kim;
2) reality tv star Steve-O (I think that’s the right spelling);
3) NFL star Lawrence Taylor;
4) Nancy O’Dell (missed who she is);
they said the next four will be announced during Desperate Housewives, coming up next. So, making a cupcake run.
Okay, got cupcakes. Did anything happen?
Well, they just said they’re dropping all names in less than 30 minutes, but I’m tired of waiting. Awesome Katrina just posted the list down in the comments! Thanks Katrina, you rock!
So, going by this list that Katrina linked to:
5) Belinda Carlisle, formerly of the Go-Gos. Oh cool, I haven’t seen her in forever. And I used to love them. They were the first group I ever saw on MTV (back when it was first created :S) — ah memories 🙂
6) David Alan Grier. I think I remember him from In Living Color. I can’t remember exactly which one he was though without looking him up, which I’ll do in a minute. I used to like that show though, so this is a good one by me.
7) Jewel, the pop star. Hmmm, I like her.
8) Shawn Johnson, the youngest ever contestant on the show, at 17, and Olympic gold medalist in women’s gymnastics on the balance beam. Ridiculously, I’m not even sure I remember her.It was the Bejing Olympics! What’s wrong with me?
9) Gilles Marini, from Sex and the City. I never watched the series, but Katrina says he’s a hottie!
10) Ty Murray, a rodeo star. Hmmm, a shit kicker? Interesting.
11) Denise Richards, the movie star.
12) Chuck Wicks, singer and song-writer. Don’t know him. He’s dating Julianne Hough, Katrina?
13) Steve Wozniak, a “Silicon Alley icon and philanthropist” who designed for Apple, according to the Reality TV website.
I’ll edit the post again if there are any changes in the announcements. Otherwise, I guess it’s overall an okay cast. I like a few of them anyway. Several I don’t know. Without seeing anything so far, I predict Wozniak is first to get booted. An entrepreneur, intellectual type? Maybe he’ll defy stereotypes, who knows…