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marigold:

Bonnie Hunt with Lance Bass Part 1


Part 2

apskip:
It's that time! Tonight's finals were judged by Carrie, Bruno and Len with additional judging by the public based on voting within 30 minutes of the end of the show(if I am lucky I will just get my vote in).

Brooke and Derek reviewed their two favorite dances of the season, quickstep and paso doble. Lance and L:acey did the same for tango and mambo. Warren and Kym reviewd their Viennese Waltz and paso doble.

The first competition tonight was a Samba Smackdown. Each of the teams dance sequentially to the same music with a hokey group finish. Len's comments were that Lance needed a little more finesse and Warren needed better footwork. Bruno called Brooke the sexiest dancer. Carrie Ann called Warrent the most improved. The scores were

For Brooke/Derek - Len 9 Bruno 10 Carrie Ann 9 total 28
For Lance/Lacey  -  Len 9 Bruno  8  Carrie Ann 9 total 26
For Warren/Kym -   Len 7 Bruno  9  Carrie Ann 9 total 25

The second competition was freestyle where anything goes, particularly lifts. Brooke did a smooth but energetic routine. Lance did a hip hop with other styles including cha cha cha thrown in briefly. Warren did a routine emphasizing lifts. Len told Brooke that hers made him hot under the collar and it was the best freestyle he had  ever seen on DWTS. Bruno told her that her lifts were spectacular and he thought her routine was straight from the Kama Sutra.  Len stated that Lance's hip hop suffered from having other styles in it. Carrie Ann told Warren that his routine was her favorite but it had a big mistake(she was cut off by Tom before she could say what it was). The live audience was very enthuisiastic about Warren's routine, which could be summarized by "gone wild with lifts".

The scores were:
For Brooke/Derek -   Len 10 Bruno 10 Carrie Ann 10 total a perfect 30
For Lance/Lacey   -   Len  9  Bruno   9 Carrie Ann 9   total 27  
For Warren/Kym   -   Len 10 Bruno   9 Carrie Ann 9   total 28

The combined total are Brooke 58 Lance 53 Warren 53

Unless the public was blind, Brooke should win the trophy and title tomorrow night.

Tom Bergeron had the last word, which was "this(an earring) is the whole costume for Edyta." I bet he saved that one through the Whole season.

marigold:

--- Quote from: apskip on November 24, 2008, 08:54:47 PM ---
It's that time!


--- End quote ---

Unfortunately it is, what a great season it has been

Thanks for all the recaps apskip, it's greatly appreciated

That has to be the happiest I have seen Len all season, I guess he's glad it's almost over

marigold:
An interesting article:

Monday’s Dancing: What You Didn’t See

Clearing Off the Mantle: His Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl in 2003, but make no mistake about it – Warren Sapp would LOVE to add the mirror ball trophy to his sports awards collection. “I would put it on my mantle,” Sapp says. “If I got this trophy I would put it right above the fireplace underneath this oil painting I have of myself and Brett Favre. Definitely.” Sapp admits he has one regret about the Dancing season: “I didn’t get to spend enough time with Kym,” said Sapp. “I had other obligations and jobs that took me away at times and made it a little bit tough at times.”

‘N It to Win It: His pal Joey Fatone was season four runner-up, but Lance Bass says he’s in it to win it. “I was so nervous but we went out there and we killed it and I couldn’t be more proud,” Bass told PEOPLE after the show. Bass says he “talked to Joey all week this week. He unfortunately couldn’t be here tonight because he’s stuck in New York, but he said to just use my personality and get the people excited and have fun and that’s what we tried to do.” With the hard part of doing two dances over, Bass said he and his partner Lacey Schwimmer were “going out to Rocco’s (DiSpirito) pizza party tonight and have some good food and then we have to hit the sack because it’s a long day tomorrow.”

Star Search: The audience was loaded with celebrity fans of the show including actresses Florence Henderson, Renee Russo and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. All three women sat near each other in the front row across from the judges’ table and all were in awe of the evening’s performances. “It was fantastic,” Henderson gushed. “They are each so different and I thought they all brought something special to the dance floor. Brooke and Derek are always fantastic and Lance and Lacey were fantastic. And Warren? He continually surprises me,” the erstwhile Brady mom observed. “He is so much fun I want to dance with him.” Does she want to be on the show someday? “I would love to,” Henderson said. “I think I could hang in there for a while.” Her first time at the ballroom, Russo was amazed at what she saw. “I have to tell you I love Warren so much! It’s hard because they are all really good. Brooke is amazing, too. I had a blast!” Sigler, a pal of Bass’s, says she’s “so proud of him. I was here the first week and he’s come so far from that first night. I’m thrilled for him.”

I Did It My Way: For three seasons in a row, Derek Hough watched his sister Julianne capture two mirror-ball trophies, followed by his best friend Mark Ballas’s win in season six. Now that Derek has made the finals, was it everything he hoped it would be? “I tend to second guess myself and I thought getting into this finale, would I be able to top my sister’s performances? Mark and Kristi (Yamaguchi, season six champ) were so amazing. I started to think I don’t know if I can top that.” But Hough and partner Brooke Burke, front-runners all season long, did indeed outdo themselves. Their freestyle routine to “You’re the One That I Want,” featured more lifts than any other dancer has attempted in Dancing’s seven-season history, brought the roof down. It also took the wind out of both Hough and Burke. “We’d never done the entire dance all the way through from start to finish,” Hough confessed. “It was too hard all week – the lifts, my legs, his back,” Burke chimed in. “We didn’t do the judges’ table in rehearsals and all of the lifts. A lot of those things we envisioned and we just had faith in each other to do it… We just went for it. I can’t wait to get home tonight and see it on TV.”

Unforgettable?: Was it the best finale ever? “I can’t imagine there will ever be a better finale than we’ve seen tonight. I thought it was fantastic,” judge Len Goodman said after the show. “Warren, judging by the studio audience, is really popular and Lance seems to have the young people’s votes. As much as Brooke is up there with her scores, I think anything can happen.” Bruno Tonioli agreed. “[Warren] really is Mr. Irresistible. But Brooke is the best dancer. Lance is the one that has grown the most as a performer. He’s really come leaps and bounds. But Brooke and Derek push it to another level. …Their freestyle was the best freestyle since Cheryl (Burke) and Drew (Lachey) did “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” (in season two).”

More from Inside the Ballroom:

• Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys rocked the ballroom crowd during their respective pre-taped musical performances, which will air Tuesday on the two-hour results show. Cyrus rocked the crowd, including mom Tish who was on her feet in the first row clapping to the beat, with her new song, “Fly on the Wall.” Keys banged the ivories and belted out her song “I Need You,” moving and grooving with her four dancers so much that it prompted all three judges to whip out their paddles – 10s all around!

• Most of the season seven Dancing cast was in the audience including Jeffrey Ross, Rocco DiSpirito and Maurice Greene. After the show, Hough’s girlfriend and season six partner, actress Shannon Elizabeth, followed him around on the dance floor snapping pictures with her digital camera. Sapp’s female cheering section – his mom, his grandmother and his daughter – smiled and watched on as he made his way through press interviews following the show.

Link: http://tvwatch.people.com/2008/11/25/mondays-dancing-what-you-didnt-see-16/

marigold:
An interesting article:

DWTS Watch: Who Will Win?

In what is likely the most riveting final performance night in the brief history of Dancing With the Stars, all three of the remaining couples pulled out all the stops on Monday night.

None of the couples — Warren Sapp and Kym Johnson, Brooke Burke and Derek Hough, Lance Bass and Lacey Schwimmer — made any major mistakes on Monday and they all provided non-stop entertainment in performing a freestyle routine and a group samba. So it should come as no surprise that everyone was smiling backstage when OK! caught up with them after the show.

Frontrunners Brooke and Derek solidified their hold on the top spot by earning a 28 for their samba and a perfect 30 for their freestyle, a joyful tribute to the classic musical Grease.

Judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli both said it was the best freestyle they had ever seen on DWTS, now in its seventh season. And their combined score of 58 out of 60 looks hard to beat in Tuesday night’s finale.

Backstage afterwards, Brooke told OK! Grease is the word! “It’s one of my favorite movies and my kids’ favorite movies.” As for who deserves the credit for getting into the final round, she put it squarely in partner Derek's lap.

“Everything we’ve done great has really been from him teaching me and him getting me to where I need to be," she explained. "I feel we’ve done everything we needed to do this season no matter what happens tomorrow.”

Although she’s had a fabulous time on the show, mother-of-four Brooke said she’s looking forward to the end of the punishing rehearsal schedule: “I miss my kids so desperately.” After tomorrow night’s final results she plans to, “grab my babies!”

Lance and his partner Lacey got a score of 26 for their samba and very solid 27 for their hip-hop freestyle routine, for a total of 53. The former boy-bander likened the night to the final exams in school. “You show the judges what you’ve learned and hope that they like it," he explained. "They loved it tonight. I think everyone did such an amazing job.”

Although his hip-hop routine scored lower than Brooke’s more traditional freestyle, Lance said they couldn’t have picked another style of dance. “It’s what our fans have been asking for since day one," he said. "We finally got to do it and I hope everyone enjoyed it because we sure did. Even Len loved it!”

Still, when pressed by OK! about the judging on the freestyle, for which he received the lowest score of the finalists, Lance admitted, “I was hoping for higher scores. That’s just the theme of the whole season for them and us. I would not expect anything less — one point lower than everyone else.”

The surprising dance journey of gridiron great Warren continued, as he and Kym earned 25 points for their samba and 28 for their freestyle, pushing them into a tie with Lance and Lacey with a cumulative 53.

The retired linebacker's move of catching Kym with his arms extended in front of him made the crowd gasp, and afterwards, he told OK! the amazing maneuver is called “the waterfall.” Kym admitted, “It’s scary for me because for a minute I’m completely airborne.” Competitive Warren said, “That’s my favorite move! I wish they had let us lift from the beginning because I would have broke down some of these little fellas early.”

As for earning a score of ten from Len, the future Hall-of-Famer exclaimed, “that’s what I came for. I can go home now.” He added that judge Carrie Ann Inaba also “was giving us a lot of love tonight.” Kym said. “She said Warren was the most improved and she said our dance was her favorite.”

After the show, Len told OK! it was DWTS’ most incredible night: “I can’t imagine there’s ever been a final like we saw tonight that would ever be better. I loved the samba they all joined in on and the freestyles were so different.”

Link: http://www.ok-magazine.com/news/view/10482

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