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marigold:
From Chuck Wicks:

03.30.2009

VOTE FOR CHUCK!

FANS – YOU CAN VOTE MULTIPLE TIMES FOR CHUCK ON MONDAY 3/30.

PLEASE KEEP VOTING UNTIL YOU RECEIVE A MESSAGE THAT SAYS YOU REACHED THE LIMIT (the limit is approximately 13 votes).

Viewers can vote via phone, text message or online for their favorites ONLY on the night they perform.

Phone: call 800-868-3406 and cast your vote. When: from the start of the show on Monday 3/30 to 30 minutes after the show ends.

Text: Text the word “VOTE” to 3406 – When: from the start of the show on Monday 3/30 until 30 minutes after the show ends (in time zone of texter*). For AT&T subscribers only.

Online: click here (www.abc.com) to vote for Chuck. When: from the start of the show on Monday 3/30 to noon Eastern Time on Tuesday 3/31

http://www.chuckwicks.com/index.php?page=news&n_id=122

marigold:
An interesting article:

Kristi Yamaguchi Not Surprised By Dancing Injuries

If there’s one person who knows how grueling an entire season of Dancing with the Stars can be, it’s season 6 champ Kristi Yamaguchi.

“The injuries aren’t surprising,” Yamaguchi says of season 8’s spate of injuries. “People don’t know how physical it gets. I think that’s one reason why athletes do well — they know how to listen to their bodies.”

Yamaguchi, who was in Los Angeles this weekend serving as an ambassador at the World Figure Skating Championships, sees one athlete from the current season who has a serious shot at the mirror-ball trophy: gymnast Shawn Johnson, who’s paired with Yamaguchi’s former partner Mark Ballas.

“Shawn is focused and as an athlete, she is used to taking direction and easily coachable,” says Yamaguchi. “Mark is having a great time working with her and she’s got great potential.”

But Yamaguchi also sees stiff competition in Gilles Marini and Melissa Rycroft, who shared first place on the leader board with Johnson after last Monday’s dance. “I think the front-runners are Melissa, Gilles and Shawn,” she says. “Lil’ Kim and Chuck [Wicks] are dark horses.”

http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/03/30/kristi-yamaguchi-not-surprised-by-dancing-injuries/

marigold:
ABC Television Network

PRESS RELEASE

ON TOMORROW DANCING RESULTS SHOW (3/31) THIRD & FOURTH COUPLES ELIMINATED ON "DANCING WITH THE STARS THE RESULTS SHOW," TUESDAY, MARCH 31 ON ABC

Boyz II Men Perform

Kevin Rudolf Performs

"Episode 804A" - After a night of Argentine Tango and Lindyhop, a dramatic double elimination will send the third & fourth couples home from the competition on "Dancing with the Stars the Results Show," TUESDAY, MARCH 31 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

In a special performance, the best-selling Motown  act of all time and Grammy-Award winning group Boyz II Men will sing a Motown Medley from their latest Decca CD, "Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA."   Boyz II Men consists of members Nathan Morris, Shawn Stockman and Wanya Morris; as a group they have sold over 60 million records to date and are currently in the studio recording a new disc set for release in Fall 2009. The trio will be accompanied by professional dancers Cheryl Burke, Dmitry Chaplin, Tony Dovolani and Kym Johnson. 

Chart topping newcomer Kevin Rudolf will take to the stage to perform the hit single, "Let it Rock," from his debut Cash Money Records CD, "In the City."  Joining Kevin will be professional dancers Julianne Hough, Derek Hough, Chelsie Hightower, Lacey Schwimmer and Artem Chigvintsev.  Kevin's musical style has been hailed by critics as a sublime blend of influences and he has been cited as one of hip hop's more impressive up and coming new talents. The song and album have emerged as a multi-platform phenomenon, becoming one of the top selling digital singles, logging 3 million downloads on iTunes and the video nearing a 2 million view milestone on YouTube. Kevin kicks off the Let It Rock Tour, his first headlining national run, April 3rd in Nashville.

A Viennese Waltz showcasing the professional dancers and choreographed by former "Dancing with the Stars" professional Louis van Amstel, will dazzle the ballroom along with professionals Jonathan Roberts, Anna Trebunskaya, Aliona Vilani and U.S. Standard Finalists Urs Geisenhainer & Agnes Kazmierczak.

By evening's end two couples will be eliminated, as determined by a combination of the judges' scores and viewers' votes. Who among the following 11 teams will leave the ballroom floor?

David Alan Grier (comedian and actor) and partner Kym Johnson
Shawn Johnson (Olympic gymnastics medalist) and partner Mark Ballas
Lil' Kim (Grammy Award winning rapper) and partner, reigning champion Derek Hough
Holly Madison (reality television star) and partner, newcomer Dmitry Chaplin
Gilles Marini (model and actor) and partner Cheryl Burke
Ty Murray ("King of Cowboys") and partner, newcomer Chelsie Hightower
Steve-O (star of "Jackass" and "Wildboyz") and partner Lacey Schwimmer
Melissa Rycroft (from "The Bachelor") and partner Tony Dovolani
Lawrence Taylor (National Football League Hall of Famer, a.k.a. "LT") and partner Edyta Sliwinska
Chuck Wicks (country music star) and partner Julianne Hough
Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple, a.k.a. "The Woz) and partner Karina Smirnoff

Viewers may cast their votes for their favorite teams via phone on Monday night during and up to 30 minutes after the "Dancing with the Stars" performance shows. AT&T subscribers may also text message their votes by texting the word "VOTE" and entering the number that corresponds to the team they want to support (standard text message rates apply). Viewers may also vote online at www.abc.com starting from the opening of each episode on the East Coast and until 12:00 Noon, ET the following day.
 

marigold:
An interesting article:

Melissa on 'DWTS' Scare: I Freak Myself Out

Security at "Dancing with the Stars" has been tightened since the Shawn Johnson stalker scare last week, and since the commotion, contestant Melissa Rycroft is thankful she can get back to dancing.

"Thankfully, I haven't had to deal with anything like that," Melissa revealed of the stalker situation. "If that stuff is going on, I am very unaware of it, which is where I would like to be because I freak myself out pretty easily."

She adds, "You want to be accessible to your fans but at the same time you don't want to be too accessible. Three weeks ago, I was sitting at home and nobody knew who I was...So, I need to work on that now that I've been thrown into this world."

Robert O'Ryan is behind bars for stalking Olympian Shawn, but ABC isn't taking any chances. The set is on lockdown, security is heightened and the network is even forbidding any questions about the incident.

Tonight, the stars are heading back to the dance floor -- and Rycroft is neck-and-neck with Gilles Marini as a favorite to win, but she's just hoping to come out of the competition without sustaining an injury. "I wrap everything," Melissa dishes about avoiding a sprain on the injury-plagued season of "DWTS."

Melissa adds of her partner Tony Dovolani, "I know I frustrate him to death in practice because I have so many bad habits -- it's natural for me to be big and do my jazz hands and he's swatting me and hitting me going, 'no!'"

Find out how Melissa and her competitors fare when "Dancing with the Stars" airs tonight on ABC.

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2009/03/melissa_on_dwts_scare_i_freak.php

marigold:

An update from Woz:

We just finished dress rehearsal.

I had major problems in 3 runs with the full orchestra this morning. I had worked on 4 homework assignments that Karina gave me but I didn't do my normal thing I do at home, which is to repeatedly, with the music playing or not, step through my entire dance from start to finish. I do this either in my head (like when in bed) or on my feet in the small apartment, making allowances for distances.

Going through the entire dance gets the linking between the small parts so well in my head that I don't have a worry. But this morning, while rehearsing to the orchestra, my mind and muscles were stalling to grasp for the link, for the next thing to do. I had been overconfident at having the whole routine down pretty well that way the day before.

Karina was worried. I knew what I needed to do to get back into it but Karina isn't me and she was worried. I felt so sorry for letting her down but feeling sorry is not a constructive step or solution. The constructive step was to go to my trailer and practice danceing all the way through from start to finish. I did it maybe 10 times during the break.

When I encountered Karina just now, before the dress rehearsal, I told her that I had it down, very confidently to reassure her. But the proof is in the pudding and our dance went the best ever. When we finished and I came back to the trailer, Julie told me that I looked much better in the confident character of the Argentine Tango than before.

I pulled my smile on the judges and the few who saw it liked it and laughed. I wish I could wink but I can't. So I try one of those smiles that they have in movies where the guy turns toward the camera, away from his 'partner' and gives a type of smile that is equal to a wink.

All our lift moves went well. I am going to keep practicing in my trailer though, so as not to pull any surprises on Karina for the real show tonight.

Shawn Johnson does some great gymnastic moves. I have to swear that the Lindy Hop is my favorite dance yet. I love fast foot motion, at the edge of physical ability, and all the funn 50's diner type feel of it. I love all the lifts and some are pretty spectacular. I'm not talking just about Shawn and Mark, her partner, but also about Ty and Chelsea, and Julianne and Chuck, David Allen Greer and Kym, and Melissa and Tony. I can't say that any one of them is more impressive than the other. In the red room, I was standing to each Lindy Hop dance on our screen and moving with it. I just love the music and dances so much.

The performance that actually brought me to tears was that of Holly and Dmitry. Holly was in doubt after last week's dance-off, so seeing such an incredible dance, from both of them, made me more than just happy. Others in the red room felt similarly. I hope that gets more acceptance for Holly, who is often left alone from conversations going on.

It's all good. It's all good. (that's a quote from my friend Joe Patane).

off to makeup....

Woz

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