Week 4: Dancing with the Stars
This week, ABC and DWTS decided to stir the pot a little and introduce two “new”dances for our watching enjoyment. These are the Lindy (or as I, like Len, know it as the Jitterbug) and the Argentine Tango (more sex, less dancing).
I remember a long, long time ago watching Movie Tone news in the theatres and one of the features was a dance contest from New York. In this dance contest, the Jitterbug was king. Ergo, the Lindy; the Jitterbug, however, featured more clothes, and spectacular dancing was the norm, not the exception. So much for digression – on to the Lindy! The program began with an excellent rendition by David Alan Grier and Kym, it was full of energy, tricks and he did an excellent job. Heavens above, the music actually fit, the them song from Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. Here we go down memory lane. Chuck and Julianne, or as I call them Barbie and Ken, were in my opinion mediocre. No threepeat here. He seems to be counting too much on her to carry the dancing load. But they are cute together. I loved Ty and Chelsea. He seems to be getting more and more into the “dance” thing, and when he lets go he is really good; much better than Ken and Barbie. One has to wonder if Melissa ever gets any rest, or does she keep on dancing for 24/7. Even though there were a couple of missteps, and he almost dropped her once, the performance was superb. Still, I liked David and Kym better. Oh, My, Steve O is a hopeless case. He was out of step and couldn’t keep time to the music. This could be one of the couples in the double elimination.Now, when you have an Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics and a former champion who are both young and in excellent shape, you can expect a routine to knock your socks off, and this did not fail. What a routine, standing O from the audience, but picky picky from the judges. Get a life, Carrie, Len and Bruno!
We go from the athletic to the sexily athletic. The Argentine Tango, born in the slums of Buenos Aries, danced supposedly in smoke filled bars. Some of these routines should have had a smoke machine to obscure the dancing – cases in point – LT and Edyta, Edyta as always was superb; if she danced alone, the routine would be a 10; unfortunately she didn’t dance alone, LT did try, but something was radically missing – like tempo and steps. I know I should include Steve and Karina in the “smoke” category, I mean they even had the Tucker Carlson chair routine going, but he is so appealing in his demeanor that you have to like him. It was his best dance yet, but Picky, Picky and Bumbo tore him apart. Show them Steve, stay on for a while. Why they are so ignorant to this man is beyond my comprehension. Following Steve’s chair, was Holly’s bar stool. Dmitry, like Edyta, did all the work. Give the girl a break, she tried, but she’s not good at all; and, in case I fail to mention it, she had black seams in her stockings.(circa Belinda and Denise)
The judges were kissy face, huggy bear with her and she was no better than Steve. Double standard I say.
Now to the nitty gritty of the Argentine Tango. We have two WOWS, and one of the WOWS is a hair short of X-Rated. The X does not belong to Lil’Kim; she was R. What a crowd pleaser, and Derek had his hair out of his eyes! She was right on, steps, tricks and expression, and that costume was brilliant. I think Gilles and Cheryl belonged last, at least most of the children should have been in bed. X-Rated, that’s all I can say; X-rated but wonderful, this dance captured the essence of the dance, with Gilles thrown in. He is something -I think Carrie got carried away – I think she better take a cold shower! The remark was made that they couldn’t tell who was the professional dancer. Maybe Cheryl will be the one to threepeat.
The results show will have a double elimination. Interesting; my choices are Holly and Steve O. We’ll see.
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