I hate that they gave Ashleigh the last spot. The fact that this no dancing clown is replacing Paula Van Oppen (who is amazing) is criminal. They should have brought back Amber (the girl they claimed lacked performance quality) instead. I think the only reason that they didn't was that with Bianca, Arianna and Eleanor, they are already at their black girl quota for the season. Bleagh. Molly and Noelle can go far, far away, too. The two of them are just exhausting. I'm trying to reserve judgement on the high talker because the little snippets of her dancing that I saw, I really liked. I'll just pray that they don't let her talk much.
On the boys side, I'm happy with most of them. I could've done without Peter Sabasino because Phillip seems to be so much better than him and I don't get why they need two boy tappers. And Legacy seems like this year's Cedric, but he may surprise me and wind up as this year's Gev, in which case, I'd be happy. Losing David (yellow shorts ballet boy) is still bullshit. He's phenomenal and would've been a better pick than either Peter or Legacy, IMHO.
I wish there were heights posted. They do a lot of height-based pairing in the first set, especially with anyone who is unusually-heighted.
This. Ever since the Ricky/Ashley tango fiasco, they have done all that they can to match by height in the first pairings. Most of the guys this year seem pretty tall, though. I think Legacy is probably the shortest, so they shouldn't have too many match up issues.
OMG, thank god Jen didn't go home!
woman in front of house that doesn't lose her mind and freak the fuck out.
STEPHANIE!!!! I have the mad Stephanie love. I have all her trading cards!
What's this now?!
It's in this week's Us or similar -- apparently she was married for years to a guy who beat the shit out of her, raped her, etc. She finally went to her parents, and they were like, you have to make this marriage work. Poor thing. It actually makes me think that's why she's so much with the manic laughter.
She was on Larry King talking about this. Her ex-husband is not from the U.S. I don't know where he is from.
I bought the issue of US magazine with the article (she's on the cover).
It's a really good article. Her ex is from Saudia Arabia I think, if not there somewhere in the Middle East.
She says it was really dance that saved her, she saw an ad for a dance instructor, no experience needed, and she applied. She'd taken some dance in college but she wasn't trained at all until she started that job. She was asked to go to a competition and realized that's what she wanted to do. Her husband wasn't happy and that caused more problems.
She did leave him and divorce him but then they got back together and she was going to remarry him with a huge wedding in his home country and someone told her that he had proposed to another woman right before he had convinced her to come back to him and Mary called off the wedding.
and Mary called off the wedding.
Wait. Mary Murphy called off Mia's wedding? Because that would be one hell of an ending to this story!
Wow, what a terrible tale. It's like that Sally Field TV movie, Not Without My Daughter, except not like that at all, but kind of. I can see now why she's so crunchy earth mama. And why she loves untrained dancers so much and their raw energy. Sigh. I will miss Mia. So much crazy potential right out the window.
My take on your top 20 if anyone is interested.
kat, the whole thing is about Mary, not Mia.
Mary called off her remarriage to her abusive ex husband.
Oh, OK. I was so confused. I somehow substituted Mia for Mary, which is scary on many, many different levels. I should probably lay off the Dayquil.
Huh. Well, I can definitely see Mary in the Sally Field role in Not Without My Daughter more readily than I can see Mia.
PR:
Michael Kors has me screaming in laughter tonight. His remark about "Greece" nearly had me off the couch.
