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On 9/19/2022 at 7:34 PM, Phebemarie said:
Selma seemed so fragile at the end of her performance. I'd be afraid the most rigorous dances will really exhaust her.
Selma did say that, among other symptoms, she has little or no feeling in one leg. You could see that in her halting, leg dragging gait when she was leaving the floor for the sky box. Unfortunately, advanced Multiple Sclerosis may not be too far over the horizon, but even with that, her waltz was miraculous. You wouldn't have guessed that her MS was impacting her life that much. Sasha's choreography was brilliant but he will face more challenges when the faster dances are on the menu. I. along with I'm sure everyone else, hope that Selma can stay in the competition for as long as possible.
As far as the show itself goes, they really pulled it off. Without any commercials the pace almost seemed too fast but as contestants leave that should even out. Alfonso's sky box interviews were not exactly insightful but he is very earnest and likeable and he does even out Tyra a bit. Speaking of Tyra, I gotta admit that she looked great. Her gown (or dress?) suited her and because things were moving so quickly, she didn't have time to make many foolish remarks.
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17 hours ago, MsTree said:
IIRC, he was only referring to people who are walking outside alone.
Ah, but still, what precautions people are taking, for whatever reason, is none of his damn business.
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I forgot that the show was on this week and, based on the comments here, I'm glad that I did. It sounded like a complete shit show of stupidity and intolerance. Did Maher really say the he would like to punch people who mask up, even jokingly? Talk about intolerant and stupid. Once again, Bill's lack of empathy and his complete inability to put himself in anyone else's shoes is stunning. Maybe he should get out and mingle with "the little people" on occasion and/or actually talk to people who choose, for whatever reason, to continue to wear masks. He might benefit from the education that he appears to desperately need.
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On 4/23/2022 at 9:38 AM, tessaray said:
I think Fauci has a slight Brooklyn accent. It's a little more noticeable when he's visibly tired or extra animated.
Because it was late and I couldn't stand another minute, I missed the "Don't say gay" discussion. Did they bring up the Citizens United, corporations are people too principle some love so much? I think Disney might have a case there. 🤔
As a native son of the great Borough of Brooklyn, I'll confirm that there are times when Dr. Fauci's homeboy accent is noticeable. 🙂
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On 4/9/2022 at 1:09 AM, aghst said:
Leonhart says masks don’t matter, that liberals who masked, there was a “performative” aspect. Or what conservative should call virtue signaling for people who want to project how wok they are.
Well news items, in the UK, EasyJet and British Air have canceled hundreds of flights in the last week or two because of staff being sick with Covid, BA.2. In early and mid March, these airlines stopped requiring masking on one of her flights.
This week, LA County is seeing increase in Covid infections, including a breakout of 60 cases at a high school and other schools which had dropped mask mandates.
So far, hospitalizations and deaths haven’t increased as fast as cases compared to previous waves. But recent studies showed potential for increased heart disease, diabetes and loss of brain volume as some of the potential long term issues from Covid that they’re still studying.
Maher cited the two scientists who quit the FDA over first boosters. Yeah they had a different opinion and they talked up vaccine equity for the world, even though boosters didn’t prevent vaccine supplies from reaching places like Africa , where they have their own anti Vaxxers — Omicron came from Africa which had under 30% vaccination rate in November when it was discovered.
Well boosters saved millions of lives around the world and kept many millions more out of hospital in the Delta and Omicron waves so citing those scientists are not a good idea. They’re probably not saying much these days since they were wrong on boosters.
So Bill wanted this NY times guy on because he’s also wrong on Covid but Bill can’t give up on his pet peeves. Including the whole thing about people not reacting correctly to jokes, as he diagrammed the Chris Rock joke, which was at best okay, not very funny.
The correct reaction to jokes is to always laugh.🙄
After giving up on the show for months, I did watch last week's and found it to be very good but this Friday's show, not so much. Bill telling us about all of the good that Ivermectin had done over the years was blah. Sure when it's used appropriately not to treat Covid pateints Bill.
Leonhart's comments about masks being "performative" were downright stupid and offensive. Maybe Dave hadn't seen the reporting on the annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington DC last week. It is now considered to be a super spreader event. According to reports few of the guests were wearing masks and even though they were all vaccinated over 50 people, including some very powerful dignitaries, have now tested positive. So let's see, what possibly could have been the cause of that? Oh, I don't know, maybe no masks and breathing in each other's faces perhaps? For people to still not understand that the vaccines are designed to prevent serious illness if you get infected and not necessarily prevent infection, astounds me. Omicron BA2 is almost as contagious as the measles, the most contagious virus known. With the relaxation of the basic Covid safety measures all around the country, I just hope that we don't pay for that soon.
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NIgel Lythgoe's statement about not returning: “I am so thrilled that America’s young aspiring dance talent will get to work with some of our greatest creative choreographers,” he tweeted. “On a personally sad note, I have not been asked to be on the judging panel this season. I don’t know who will be saying “Cue Music” but I wish them well.”
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Is this judging panel some kind of joke? I mean seriously? Twitch is OK but Matthew Morrison, while a Broadway star is not a dancer and JoJo is still a kid. How are any of these folks going to critique the ballroom numbers? This looks like yet another attempt by the show runners (and perhaps the suits at Fox) to capture a segment of the audience that pretty much abandoned the show at one point. The show's continuously sinking ratings were a testament to this. These gimmicks didn't work in the past and I don't think that they'll work this time. While I'm thrilled to see the show and continues to launch the professional careers of many dancers, this panel is a major disappointment.
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I haven't watched the show since sometime last year. I just got tired of Bill's brand of self-indulgence and a parade of terrible guests. I did, however, catch his opening "Covid" monologue on YouTube and without going further, I will say that Bill has never had an ability to put himself in the shoes of anyone who isn't him.
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I haven't watch the show in months but I did see the interview on YouTube. I just watched Nicole Wallace, who unlike Bill, hammered Chris Christie over his curious omission of Fox News and, especially Tucker Carlson, when he "addresses" those who push conspiracies. He actually said that he's doesn't watch Carlson and isn't familiar with the garbage that he pushes on a nightly basis. That has to be an out and out lie. Of course he knows all about the boy Swanson heir but won't criticize Fox News because he knows that if he does and decides to make another presidential run, being on the wrong side of the Murdochs would not be a wise idea. On the other hand Christie said that he watches Ingraham and Hannity. Hmm, they've never pushed any baseless conspiracy theories, have they? Talk about trying to have it both ways. Christie is gas lighting the country in order to sell a book and remain viable in 2024.
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OK, so I'll be the grinch but I thought that JoJo and Jenna should have won with Amanda taking second,while fully acknowledging Inmans improvement and the splendid job that Dani did. I'm still going with the best dancers. I'm OK with Inman because nothing will ever match the Bobby Bones debacle. There's a MsMojo video on YouTube showing shocking eliminations over the years. There were a number of celebs who had been dancers or at least trained (Heather Morris, Sabrina Bryan for example) who were bounced way too early. Part of the blame rests with the somewhat Schizophrenic choices of the show runners. On the one hand it's supposed to be all about untrained celebs who improve over the course of a season but then there's the trained/experienced celeb dancers who are technically superior but can lose out to the former. There are times that there's a a voter backlash against the latter. Maybe the show should just stop bringing in anyone who could be seen as a "ringer" so that the celeb cast would all be starting from ground zero. Of course if that's done, it could be weeks before any decent dancing was even seen. I don't have any answers to this split and, again, this season has actually (minus Tyra) been very good. i just would have chosen a different winner.
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7 hours ago, ProfCrash said:
They would be better to reduce the number of "stars" and maybe focus more on what the dances are suppose to look like, what makes a rumba a rumba. What are the required steps. Show more of the learning and focus each episode on one dance so that people can actually compare the dances on a given show. Maybe don't cut anyone until half way through the show so that you can see them developing skills and grow.
But if they did that, then the show would have to really focus on the actual dancing and not whether someone is popular, has a fan base or the darling of the judges. The only way that the format will change is if that needs to happen for the the show to survive. That doesn't work so well at times either as long time SYTYCD viewers can attest to. With the ratings sinking, going back a few years, the producers kept trying to reinvent the show with, at best, mixed results that didn't help.
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On 11/15/2021 at 7:45 PM, babyhouseman said:
DWTS execs blame talent, not Tyra Banks
Execs are blaming talent, not Tyra, for low ratings.
What a load of BS. With a few exceptions, from a pure dancing ability, this has been one of the better celeb groups in recent years. The execs don't know that in most seasons, the general public doesn't know who half (or more) of the contestants are? This season's ratings may be a hangover from last season's poor showing. There also has to be some backlash over Tom being fired for criticizing the show having politically controversial cast members (and yes, Tom was canned). Tyra is a poor substitute for Tom's calmness, quick wit and consumate professionalism. It also may be that the show's time has come and gone after so many seasons and that Trya's rambling, ungainly presence has hastened that along.
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10 hours ago, TVbitch said:
Suni's "Gravity" copped a few moves from Kayla's iconic performance from SYTYCD, but it was not as good and did not have the emotional heft, so that was a weird choice by Sasha.
When they began the routine and Gravity began to play, I kept thinking that I knew this song with another number. Then I remembered and looked at it on YouTube. Thank you for reminding of us of one of the greatest numbers in the history of SYTYCD. Kupono was excellent as the addiction but Kayla (who I felt should have won that season instead of Jeannine) was beyond brilliant. She gave a stunning portrait of what the tragic lives of hard core addicts are like and it was Mia Michaels at her absolute best as a choreographer.
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I know that many here didn't like Melora but in my opinion, thew woman was a damn good dancer, certainly much better than Iman whom Daniella did a brilliant job with. After Melora's first dance when the judges gave her high praise and then low balled her scores I knew that she was toast. The suspicious corner of my mind had a notion that, perhaps, this was somewhat, er, predetermined shall we say to make sure that she wasn't a finalist, possibly because the other contestants were more popular and/or had large fan bases. While Iman has certainly improved, the notion that he could have a second career as a dancer is something that I can't fathom. Sure, he's probably the strongest celeb that the show has ever seen and can do infinite lifts but he still looks stiff and a bit awkward at times to me. The Judges have seemed to be hell bent on him making the finals. And don't think for a minute that their comments have no influence on the voting. It happens all of the time on SYTYCD (perhaps now the late and lamented?) where some critiques seemed designed to insure an outcome. I would much rather have seen Suni, whose improvement has been substantial, thanks to her own competitive nature and Sasha's great work, in the finals. At the very least she should have made it instead of Cody who never did quite rediscover his pro dancer form. I was blown away by JoJo and Jenna last night. Because JoJo is bigger and more athletic than Jenna, her dancing as the traditional "male" partner worked. I give Jenna high marks for going all in on the show's first attempt at "pioneering". She has been fantastic. Was their freestyle, as Derek proclaimed, the best in the show's history? To quote Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction: "That's a bold statement". As I recall Derek's freestyle with Kelly Pickler and Max's with Meryl Davis weren't too shabby. Nevertheless, it was stunning, as was Amanda's with Alan. I have no idea as to who will win next week but it wouldn't shock me if Iman won.
Carrie Ann can take her idiotic "foot off the ground" point deduction and shove it. It's beyond getting old. Funny, how none of the other judges care about this. It reminds me of the old saying: "When ten men tell you that you're drunk, you better lie down".
Lastly, when you watch and listen to Tyra Banks, week after week on the show, you realize how desperately it needs to bring Tom Bergeron back. We're not talking better, but light years better and more professional. Of course it won't happen since Banks is now listed as producer. Despite her presence, it has really been an excellent rebound from last year's mess.
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There is a new movie out in which Karina Smirnoff co-stars. It's called Tango Shalom. Here;s the description:
"A Tango dancer and a rabbi develop a plan to enter a dance competition without sacrificing his orthodox beliefs. Family, tolerance, and community are tested one dazzling dance step at a time."
As you may have guessed, Karina does not play the Rabbi (although she is half Jewish) 😄
It is a charming film that is very entertaining and Karina, aside from her dancing skills, gives a very nice performance. The solution that they come up that allows the Rabbi to not violate the tenants of Orthodox Judaism is unique to say the least. It's available on YouTube for $4.99, Google Play for $3.99, Amazon Prime and Vudu (both a bit more for the rental).
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This idea of Cody and Cheryl somehow dancing virtually from remote locations is absurd. It smacks of total desperation on the part of the showrunners. How is this fair to Cody, Cheryl and, frankly, the other contestants. How are the judges supposed to deal with this? The only plausible explanation is that the producers and the network suspect that this may not be, despite all of the safety precautions, the last instance of a breakout infection and are trying figure out how to keep the show going if they occur. It's going to be pretty weird when it happens tomorrow night.
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On 2/28/2021 at 8:06 PM, Hanahope said:
I didn’t get Kelly saying Maddow was embarrassed by Russia? What was that? does she mean over an incomplete investigation and report that was wrongly blocked by the perpetrator?
Hmm.. I guess that "We all know that Jesus and Santa were white" Barbie must not have been talking about the fact that, if not for the misguided OLC memo about not indicating a sitting president, Trump might well have been charged with Obstruction of Justice. Taking pot shots at Maddow, who I believe is still on the air in her regular time slot and has more intellectual firepower, just shows who Kelly has been and still is.
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I have watched some of the last two shows but on HBO Max not live. It lets me FF through some of Bill's by now very old and tired crap. It didn't take long to skip most of ex-Fox News propaganda deputy Megyn Kelly. When she went to NBC she was probably hoping that all of lies and racially tinged nonsense that she spewed at Fox would somehow be forgotten. How did that work out? As soon as Bill got to his typically "philosophical" final New Rule, I bailed. I did see a clip of his comments about Gina Carano. Maybe Bill should have done some basic research about why Carano was fired before he held her up as a shining example of "cancel culture". Maybe he would have discovered that Carano was given at least three chances by her employer to moderate her social media activity before the final one was a bridge too far for Disney. But hey, when you're Bill Maher you can just say what you say.
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Thanks for the preview folks. PASS!
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Ariana Debose is a major star. After playing 'The Bullet" in the original Broadway cast of Hamilton, she co-starred in The Donna Summer Musical and was nominated for a Best Featured Actress Tony Award. She is currently starring in Ryan Murphy's film version of The Prom on Netflix (it's terrific) and is playing Anita in Steven Spielberg's new movie version of West Side Story now due out around Christmas of this year. Not bad for someone who, while she didn't win on SYTYCD, paid her dues and is now a big name in the business.
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1 hour ago, Robert Lynch said:
Is Bill going to deliver a lot of old people jokes to Joe Biden? It seems like he is! 😠
I didn't watch the show but did Bill really call Biden a tragedy magnet? What the hell is wrong with him? He sounds like a die hard Bernie Bro dead ender. You have to wonder if he'll start pushing crap about Joe's mental competence like some of them still do. Geez!
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One of the first things that I did this morning was to delete the recording of last night's show. Unless Bill gets off his self-indulgent high horse and stops drinking his own Kool-Aid I may be done with him. The issues that he pontificates on are too serious and/or deadly to deal with. I'll check in here before deciding to watch an individual show.
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Thanks guys. I'm not even sure that I'll watch the show tomorrow even after fast forwarding through Filbuster Barbie. Throughout this pandemic I got tired of Bill's smug self-rightousness and his frequent attempts at false equivalence. It sounds like tonight is no exception,
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I'm depending on you folks in the Eastern time zone to let me know whether ConwayPalooza is worth watching or should i just record the show, watch it tomorrow and skip through her typical deflection and BS. Bill should have had George Conway on instead. At least he sees Trump for what he really is. Post away people.
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S32.E01 Premiere
in Dancing With The Stars
· Edited by cali1981
Apparently, the price for getting rid of Tyra was a sub-par looking 720P picture and a boatload of commercials. The TV Gods have a cruel sense of equities 😄. I forgot that the show was on both Disney Plus and ABC so I watched it on D+ with the same mediocre video feed and all of the commercials. My DVR has been set to record new episodes for years which I discovered later. I should have watched Ahsoka first and then the recording of DWTS. I won't make that mistake again.