Hey, Nancy, you think Tristan is trying to sabotage you? that’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard you say, and I’ve heard you say some stupid fucking stuff.
And I still hate Brooke with the heat of a thousand suns – but asking Tristan, “So has this been more difficult than you expected?” – priceless.
URRRGHHH
I don’t know how Tristan managed to keep his cool there. Who the fuck speaks to their coach and trainer like that?!?! What a bitter, miserable, insecure hag. Nancy has got to go, her disrespect is outrageous.
I’d be glad to watch Carson flap around like a joyful goon for the rest of the season if it meant Nancy would go…this is where the whole personality contest thing becomes justified.
Brooke really is the queen of the idiotic interview question.
“So, (insert celebrity name here), this season has been really challenging for you on a personal level. How difficult has it been?”
Hope…less.
JR’s quickstep was freakin’ phenomenal.
Nice work JR! Between attitiude and ability, this guy has what it takes.
Clears the air a little after Mak’s tantrum, too.
Hmm, maybe they should have replaced “Broadway” with “Implode” when naming the week.
Hope and Maks are surely done, this week or the next, and given the way things seemed to be going between them, I’m almost suspecting that Maks’ little rant following their turn was an impromptu stab at Suicide by Judge. Nancy, OTOH, never had much of a welcome to begin with. Too bad for Tristan; I hope very much that he comes back next season paired with someone who does not give every impression of being a complete screeching bitch.
Otherwise, at this point, seems there’s JR, Ricki and everybody else. Of the second-rankers, David is the one I’d most like to see make the finals, but at this time he is nowhere near the level of the other two.
Wow. I think Hope’s attitude has completely burned Maks out. That was awful. 
And wheee, Len was a little cranky in his scores tonight.
Speaking of scores… how stupidly overscored were Ricki and Derek? I mean, it was good, but it wasn’t OMG PHENOMINAL! at all.
I’m getting so tired of the judges coddling Chaz. Even Lacey seems fed up with spoon feeding him baby dance steps.
David was pretty good. For the most part he kept the quickstep under control.
I liked Tristen and Nancy. They had a tougher, more obscure play. Luckily Bruno was a Monty Python fan and “got” the dance.
Rob was way too tentative. He did the steps but it was boring.
Hope is hopeless.
J.R. put in another semi-pro performance.
Wasn’t impressed with the group dance.
Wow. Maks was completely, utterly out of line. First by inciting the audience, and then by complaining that the judges were being “judgmental”…which is their job…and then saying it’s “his show”.
Somebody’s head has gotten a wee bit too large. I think he feels he should be judged by applause-o-meter.
Len was being a lot harsher in his scores than usual.
And something I keep wondering about but never ask for some reason. What does it mean that he’s the head judge? What authority or responsibility does he have that the other two judges don’t?
Maks was out of line. But, the judges comments about Hope have been a bit harsh all season. Everyone expected a champion soccer player to have natural dance talent. It’s painfully obvious that isn’t the case. She’s not even as good as Rob. Yet Rob & Chaz slide by on a more lenient scale.
The judging this season has been way out of whack.
I can’t help but wonder if Hope would have been better with Tony. I think he’s a better teacher than Maks. Regardless, Hope just isn’t a natural dancer.
Rikki and J.R. have it in the bag, but I’m wondering who #3 might be…David Arquette?
Did you hear us?
When Nancy was talking about wearing a bikini and shaking her booty, my whole family was screaming, “No! NOOOO!” I think I heard the neighbors screaming too.
It’s bizarre; my judging must be way off, because I not only disagreed with the judges much of the time, but I disagree with you folks in several areas.
I thought this ws the best dance Rob had done. He finally started to be using his entire body to be dancing. His arm movements were actually controlled, and more than just moving them from one place to another. I thought it was terrific.
Nancy, on the other hand, and totally aside from her being the single bitchiest contestant I’ve ever seen (and I have to wonder - are they packaging her that way? Not that I don’t believe she said those things, but that no one else ever has?), struck me as totally lack-luster. Her dancing reminds me of Bristol Palin’s - fairly precise, but largely tentative. I didn’t think the music was a good choice, and it just didn’t quite feel like a good foxtrot to me.
I thought David didn’t do quite as well as he did last week. It wasn’t bad, but I wouldn’t have marked him higher than Rob this week. There didn’t seem to me to be quite enough good quickstep moves. Of course, that wasn’t helped by the fact that only Ricki and J.R. did quicksteps besides him this week. Kinda rough competition.
Ricki and Derek’s quickstep was wonderful, I thought. Just everything a quickstep should be. I understand Len taking a point for her head position; that’s what the judges are supposed to be doing at that level of dancing. But at my level of observation, that went totally over my head.
The best I can say about Chaz and Lacey’s tango was that it wasn’t appalling. He got through the dance without tripping over his own feet. I might even have recognized it as a tango, though I’m not certain.
Hope wasn’t bad this week, but Maks was unbelievably out of line. If it weren’t for the fact that the judges have already turned in their scores before giving feedback to the dancers, I’d be inclined to give credence to the suicide by judge idea. I do agree that Hope is being harshly judged compared to, say, Chaz, but apparently the judges decided early on that she had bigtime potential and have been judging her accordingly ever since.
J.R. and Karina were, of course, wonderful. Now here’s a puzzle. Len rated this quickstep as possibly even better than Helio’s with Julianne in week 8 of season 5. He gave that dance a ten. Why didn’t he give this dance a ten?
I find that by recording the show and starting to watch at 9 rather than 8 PM, I can FF over Brooke and still finish in time to watch Castle before going to bed. That way, her bimbosity is miminized for me.
Oh, and Kristin Chenowith is IMHO a better singer than Marni Nixon (in the movie version of My Fair Lady), but not as good as Julie Andrews, who starred on Broadway in the same role, or Liza Minelli (movie version of Caberet). Nobody can torch a song up like Liza, except for her mom. Somehow they managed to pick my least favorite songs from shows I really loved. sigh.
None, AFAIK – the “head judge” just means that he’s the one who has actual experience judging dancing competitions, I think.
Louis Van Amstel’s blog and comments on the dances.
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/louis-van-amstel-dancing-stars-dish-week-6-122003809.html
Louis won a lot of Championships and coached several of the dwts pros early in their careers. He’d make a good replacement for Len someday.
The music is always pretty bad on the show, but last night it was particularly awful. I wasn’t expecting a lot, but it really distracted me yesterday.
Rob - They have all of Broadway and they pick a Frankie Valli song (used in a jukebox musical, but still). They could find a Cha Cha from a musical? Were they trying? And Rob’s mother was embarrassing. I felt sorry for him. But he did an ok job in the dancing. Good enough to go on, but I’m not sure if he’s made that break through for the finals.
Nancy - they pick a song originally from a movie. Nancy is competent, but the song is fluffy and goofy and she’s not. I don’t see her making mistakes, but she doesn’t seem to be dancing to that particular piece of music. Tristan is, so it makes it more apparent that she’s not.
David - I liked the quickstep. Unfortunately, it didn’t look quite as good as compared to Ricki and JR.
Ricki - that was not the version from the musical. Or the movie of the musical. That was a bad imitation of Sinatra (who did not sing that song in the movie version), and I hate the way he sang that song. Derek’s choreography was excellent (until his cartwheel at the end. He’s copying Mark. That’s a huge mistake on a number of levels.) Ricki looked good.
Chaz - I liked how Chaz said “I’ve seen it like 3 times” like three is a lot. The singer couldn’t pull it off. Lacey has finally learned how to choreograph so she can dance around her partner without looking like she’s dancing around her partner and like she thinks it’s The Lacey Show. Good for her! I do think Chaz continues to improve, but he should be in the bottom two this week.
Hope - Not rumba music, which didn’t help her. So, everything she kind of learned with the three women helping her, she totally forgot once she was on the floor. She messed up a few times, and lost concentration and started to laugh at herself, which on the one hand loosened her up, but on the other made her lose character of the dance, which she never really had. But it was the first time I’ve seen her do multiple turns/spins without looking like she might crash into something.
JR - there are almost no lyrics in the Hot Honey Rag. I think that helped. as far as dancing - wow.
I got to see almost the whole episode this week, I missed the last couple of weeks.
I was surprised at how much Rob has improved. I don’t think he’ll make the final, but he wasn’t hard to watch either.
I like Chaz, he’s got a great personality and he’s adorable in that cuddly-teddy-bear kind of way, but he really needs to go now. It’s just too painful to watch. I can hear my own bad knees creaking while watching him.
Ricki/David/JR for the finals, IMHO.
JR was amazing, I can’t really add anything that anyone else hasn’t already said.