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Dancing With The Stars Season 8
RealityFreakWill:
Tony, Chelsie & Ty arriving at rehearsal this morning and Jewel tagged along,too!
www.ineedmyfix.com
RealityFreakWill:
Ty's blog:
`It’s like learning a new language’
Today we had our wardrobe fitting and, this week, I'm probably going to look a little bit more like me. We got that done and then Chelsie and I went to the CBS stage and got to practice for about 2 hours, and 45 minutes.
It was a good day of practice. Well, it was a good day for me because it's back to where we start stringing it together and I can start to learn all my little cues that I need to have in order to hit all my marks.
I really like running the routine at CBS where there aren't any mirrors. It's funny--sometimes at the practice studio you get to cuing off things you see in the mirror and when you get to the live performance you don't have those mirrors, so it can kind of mess you up.
It was nice to go over there today and that's the most work we've gotten to do on the CBS stage because there are a lot less contestants. When we first started there were 13 of us so you were lucky if you got to be in there for an hour.
Now, like I said, we had well over two hours, but most of that was because Lil' Kim was about 40 minutes late so we just kept going until she got there.
I felt like I had a good day – at least, to me, we did – and we still have tomorrow to polish it up, but it's like learning a new language.
First you learn all these different words and then you learn phrases. That's what yesterday felt like to me: we spent all this time on phrases, but you don't know how to make them all go together because you're still not sure what the transitions are.
Today I got to work on all the transitions in our routine and I got to work on the cues – it might be something I see or something that I hear in the music – but they're all the little things you notice once you start stringing the whole routine together.
But today was a good day...
http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/11/Its-like-learning-a-new-language#more
RealityFreakWill:
DWTS’ Gilles Marini & Cheryl Burke @ Sentana Cup
Dancing With The Stars’ Cheryl Burke & Gilles Marini took some time out from dance rehearsals to attend the Sentana Cup Hollywood United Football Club Exhibition held at Chelsea Piers in New York. WHAT??? Gilles was within stalking distance? No wonder I was in such a great mood all weekend. ;)
Also at the games were Anthony LaPaglia, Costas Mandylor, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Donal Logue, and Ethan Zohn.
Ethan Zohn, winner of Season 3, Survivor:Africa
http://www.ineedmyfix.com/2009/04/12/dwts-gilles-marini-cheryl-burke-sentana-cup/
RealityFreakWill:
Ty's blog:
‘We’re as ready as we’re going to get’
Chelsie and I went over to CBS Studios again for some more camera blocking and we got to run it through three full times while they practiced how they're going to shoot it with their cameras.
I didn't do a great job so we went to the practice studio afterward and I got to feeling a little better.
We were trying to polish up where my hands go, where I'm going to be looking, remembering to smile at the crowd, which camera am I going to look at, and all that kind of stuff.
The practice went good and we got to feeling pretty good about it. We'll get to run it a couple more times tomorrow before the show.
We're as ready as we're going to get and, like I said, the good thing is we'll get to run it on the stage without the mirrors, which I like.
Tomorrow night we'll go out there and do the best we can and, I think, that's the main thing anyway.
For me, taking part in "Dancing with the Stars" is about enjoying the process, having a good time and making sure you put in the work, but – above all – it's about always making sure you enjoy the trip.
But, right now, Jewel and I are going to spend the rest of Easter Sunday together. We're going to a movie and then just the two of us are going to have a nice dinner, and then we plan to just relax.
http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/12/Were-as-ready-as-were-going-to-get#more
RealityFreakWill:
Is Gilles Marini The Best?
Dancing with the Stars has come up with some very good celebrity dancers this season and none appear to be better than Gilles Marini. Gilles may in fact be the best celebrity dancer to have ever graced Dancing with the stars.
Gilles Marini exploded onto the scene as Dante, the Casa Nova living in the beach house next door to Kim Cattrall's Samantha in the "Sex and the City" movie, a role which has earned him International recognition. Though people went to the theatres to see Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte, they left with one thing on their mind....Gilles's shower scene.
At this point in Gilles career it is necessary to use a term not often heard much any more, Matinee Idol. Gilles is that and much more. It is hard not to find good things to say about the man.
One of the most interesting aspects of watching Gilles Marini on Dancing with the Stars is watching his wife, Carole. Each time Gilles dances the camera pans to Carol and the expression on her face is pure pride. I sometimes think behind that beautiful smile of hers she is thinking 'Eat your heart out bitches, he is all mine'.
To be honest, I doubt there is much to stand in the way of Gilles taking the Dancing with the Stars title this season. Gilles is not only handsome with a huge female fan base, he brings immense talent to the dance floor which gives him all the credibility in the world. Having said that I only have to remember the number of injuries this season and hope the same doesn't befall Gilles.
I would like to delude myself into believing it is a 3 way battle between Gilles, Mellisa and Lil'Kim but in reality it is likely only a two way battle between Lil'kim and Mellisa for second place.
Tune in Monday night at 8/7c on ABC to catch the next round of Dancing with the Stars.
http://www.tvgrapevine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3465:dancing-with-the-stars-is-gilles-marini-the-best&catid=81:dancing-with-the-stars-2009
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