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November 09, 2009

Week 8 had five couples left.  Each danced twice - a ballroom dance and a latin dance.

The scores were:

Mya dominated so it's really down to the popularity of the other celebrities with the viewers.

Based on previous weeks, Aaron Carter looks to be in jeopardy.

Tune into the results show!

 

sb
October 26, 2009

In week 6 the nine couples on DWTS have to dance a waltz or jitterbug, and also dance in a competitive mamaba.

The mamba was a group competition, where the first couple to be elimnated got 2 points (MIchael Irvin, the second, 3 points (Louie Vito) etc. with the last couple getting 10 points (Joanna Krupa).  It made for an interesting dance!

Here are the scores of the couples in week 6 of Season 9 of Dancing with the Stars - the individual dance and points from the competitive mamba:

The ones in danger seem to be Michael, Louie, Melissa and Kelly.

The bottom couple tomorrow will be eliminated, and the the two next lowest-scoring couples will dance off, with the judges deciding who will stay and who will go.

sb
October 20, 2009

This week we had award-winning singer Nora Jones, ten celebrities to count down and the much heralded tribute to Michael Jackson in front of his family.  And we still had 30 minutes of drivel.  How do they do it??

First of all the top three scorers found out they were safe - Mark, Donny and Mya.

Then we discovered that Aaron and Natalie were in jeopardy and Kelly was safe.

Michael was the next to be safe, but Joanna was not.

Then Louie was safe, but Melissa was still in jeopardy.

That left Joanna, Aaron, Natalie and Melissa not knowing their fate.

Joanna safe,

Melissa safe.

Natalie Coughlin was voted off Dancing with the Stars in week 5.  Natalie was technically very good, but found it hard to show emotion. I actually thought she had a chance of winning the whole thing, but obviously it was not to be.

sb
October 09, 2009

I've never done a movie review before this, but I just watched "The International" on DVD last night. The story line was plausible, and I've never seen a movie so filled with memorable, quotable lines.

Clive Owen plays Lew Salinger, an Interpol investigator and former cop at Scotland Yard. Naomi Watts plays a not-believable Manhattan deputy district attorney Eleanor Whitman. There's no chemistry between the characters, no relationship between them, and no real reason in the story for her existence. Either the director left out chunks of screenplay that explained why she's in the movie, or the producers just thought the movie needed a blonde girl. Wally Cox would have been just as believable in this role.

The villain international bank is trying to corner the market on small arms brokering to the Third World. It has spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying and selling missile systems between nations to grease the wheels of the deals. An Italian family who owns a defense contracting company ends up as the hero of the movie as they scuttle the plans of the bank with a vendetta (an Italian invention) for a bank assassination of the father.

In an early scene, Salinger and Whitman meet with Umberto Calvini, the patriarch of the Italian family business. He explains the motives of all international bankers as follows (paraphrased):

"The true value of a war or armed conflict to a bank is in the debt it creates. If you control the debt, you the country that took on the debt. All big banks, nations of the world and all multinational corporations are involved. Every government and large corporation needs the bankers so they can operate in the gray and black latitudes."

So, who owns the US Government? The same banks that Bush and Obama just bailed out with a Trillion dollars of YOUR money.

Next quote:
"There's what people want to hear.
Then there's what people want to believe.
Then there's most everything else.
Then, there's the truth."

Watch the evening news and you'll see the first three things, but not the fourth.

Next quote:
"There's a difference between the truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense."

The quote has it exactly upside down. Think about this quote as you remember the official story of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, the official story makes no sense, and it is certainly not the truth.

Next quote:
"(Good) Character is easier kept than recovered."

Compare Senator Ted Kennedy and Congressman Ron Paul for a lesson in character.

Next quote:
"We cannot control the things life does to us. They are done before you know it, and when they are done, they make us do other things...until, at last, everything comes between you and the man you wanted to be."

This is a fatalistic outlook that absolves the adherent from the consequences of his choices. It's like the Nuremberg defense..."I was just following orders."

Next quote:
"Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

What does this really mean? The dictionary defines "destiny" as "the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible course of events." I've never believed in destiny or fate. I've always believed in individual choice. Destiny is fate, a leaf floating down a stream. Let me be the salmon swimming upstream against the current. At least I can say that I made my own way in spite of the obstacles. No guts, no glory.

Final quote:
"Justice is not possible because your idea and ideals about justice are illusions."

It's hard to argue against this statement when I see our court system in shambles, our prisons overcrowded with drug offenders, civil courts jammed, and jury awards unattached to reality. Perhaps true justice is only an illusion.

All in all, I enjoyed this action adventure film. One does not have to suspend belief and reality to enjoy this movie. I recommend it.

Copyright 2009 by Russell D. Longcore

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August 22, 2009

The celebrities for the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars has been officially announced but the professional dancers they will work with have not.

Of course, the couples have been leaked before the official announcement and here they are!

Women
Macy Gray - singer & Jonathan Roberts
Melissa Joan Hart - actress & Mark Ballas
Kathy Ireland - model & Tony Dovolani
Mya - singer & Dmitry Chaplin
Natalie Coughlin - Olympic swimmer & Alec Mazo
Joanna Krupa - model & Derek Hough
Debi Mazar - actress & Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Kelly Osbourne - fashion designer & Louis Van Amstel

Men
Mark Dacascos - actor and TV host & Lacey Schwimmer
Ashley Hamilton - actor and comedian & Edyta Sliwinska
Michael Irvin - ex-football player & Anna Demidova
Donny Osmond - singer & Kym Johnson
Tom DeLay - ex House Majority leader & Cheryl Burke
Aaron Carter - singer & Karina Smirnoff
Chuck Liddell - UFC fighter & Anna Trebunskaya
Louie Vito - professional snowboarder & Chelsie Hightower

Previous champions Cheryl Burke and Derek Hough will have their work cut out this season - Tom is too divisive to get a lot of viewer votes, and Joannais a model, and they don't doo too well.

Favorites seem to be Aaron & Karina, Donny & Kym and Mya & Dmitry

sb
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