"Dancing" uses more than 6 gallons of spray tan to create fake abs
Every Sunday, the "Dancing" stars have their six packs painted on, their cheekbones defined and their arms sculpted almost immediately. "You go in feeling fat and frumpy, and you come out feeling skinny and hot," said Chelsie Hightower. As the Wall Street Journal reports, "Depending on the dance the couple will perform — fox trot or waltz, West Coast swing or cha-cha — TV makeup artists use a specific tone of tan. Latin dances like the rumba and sultry lambada seem to call for the darkest shades. Waltzes and fox trots take fine-tuning on hands, neck and ankles since most of the body is covered."
Tom DeLay is recovered, and ready to go "Dancing" again
He and Cheryl Burke will dance the Texas Two-Step on Tuesday's season finale. "I'm so excited to dance," he says. ". . . I'm much more comfortable now that I'm not competing."
Marv Albert denies "Jimmy Kimmel" scuffle with 50 Cent's entourage
"I didn't even see the guys and don't even think there was a scuffle," he says of the "upsetting" reports.
Not everybody is loving "Sons of Anarchy"
"The rival gangs on 'Sons of Anarchy' are too similar, seething thug characters are everywhere, and the strategies of each group aren't thoughtful or unexpected enough to hold our interest," complains Heather Havrilesky, adding: "On 'Sons of Anarchy' no one seems to have an ace in the hole, ever. Jax clashes with Clay, the Feds want Zobelle but Clay and Jax won't play, SOA member Chibs gives in to Agent Stahl when his IRA boss taunts him about sleeping with his daughter, but it doesn't add up or surprise us enough."
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"Curb's" reunion of "Seinfeld" cast was strange and satisfying
Larry David, says James Poniewozik, didn't show the "Seinfeld" reunion going awry. Instead, he did "something much more ordinary and impressive, which was a faithful, funny re-creation of how the rhythms of the show and the characters would play if it simply picked up 11 years later." Poniewozik adds: "What this episode, and the Seinfeld part of the season did, was to bring together Seinfeldian and Curbian humor, but in a way that always came back to the acerbic, crabbed hilarity that makes Curb distinctive."
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"Glee's" Jenna Ushkowitz has known Lea Michele since they were 8
Fifteen years later, their stars on the same show — though they did not audition together. Ushkowitz, though, has become the "ringleader" for the cast. "We do everything from watching 'Glee' together, to going out to dinner, bowling, going to water parks and just hanging out," she says. "It's disgusting how much we all really love each other."
"What will become of Oprah’s peerless influence on the popular culture?" asks The Daily Beast. "The media firmament is littered with megastars who left a sure thing, either by choice or coercion, only to see their candlepower dim and their relevance fade away. Jerry Seinfeld is now a bit player on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Rosie O’Donnell is hosting a radio show. Howard Stern is on satellite. Tom Brokaw is political analyst on MSNBC. And Ted Koppel—has anybody seen him lately?"
Oprah Winfrey broke down in tears (
The "30 Rock" star also made Sarah Palin jokes at an Ad Council Gala: "NBC is sadly the fourth-place network; actually, we're in ninth place if you count the radio stations ahead of us right now," she said, adding: "It's leaving me thinking: Will I have to change the name of my show from '30 Rock' to 'Industrial Park on the Schuylkill River'?" (
Conan O'Brien is currently in a lose-lose situation, as Tim Goodman points out, and his best option right now might be to leave the network and start his third act. "Starting over, and later, at another network – one that wants and respects him – might not be such a bad thing," says Goodman. "Fox? ABC? Who knows. Something has to give at NBC. It might sound crazy now. But NBC knows how to super-size crazy."
It's not his fault, says Robert Bianco, but "CSI" has become far less interesting and less balanced since he joined the cast. "Fishburne's performance might be good enough and the character strong enough to function as a member of the ensemble," says Bianco. "But what CSI needs in the still-roiling wake of William Petersen's departure is a lead character and a charismatic star turn, and Fishburne's Ray Langston is not filling either bill."
"Rocky and His Friends" premiered on ABC on Nov. 19, 1959, introducing the world to Rocket J. Squirrel, Bullwinkle J. Moose, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. "We knew at the time how brilliant it was," said June Foray, who did the voices of Rocky and Natasha and is the last living member of the cast. "When we were canceled, we thought, ‘How could they do that?' But we never thought it would grow to be the cult that it is." PLUS: Jay Ward's daughter says: "
Kudos goes to series creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, sitcom veterans who knew how to steer the show in the right direction. "I knew Greg was great at self-assessing and evolving a show, and comedies take longer to catch on. . . . Also, I have to say, the cupboards were bare," says NBC entertainment boss Angela Bromstad. "We really needed to stick with it, and I think it's paying off."
After nine episodes "Glee" continues to surprise, says David Hinckley. "'Glee' doesn't mind a few loose cannons on the deck," he says. "It relishes sudden turns and curve balls. After nine episodes, we can't be sure of the handles we think we have on any character. We think they're mostly decent people because this isn't 'Gossip Girl' or 'Melrose Place.'"
The Nick Jr. show has become the most engaging program aimed at preschoolers, surpassing "Sesame Street," according to Bret Asbury. "Yo Gabba Gabba!," he says, "is hip, edgy, and current—it's the show for preschoolers whose parents aren't quite ready to accept that their days of going to rock and hip-hop shows are behind them."
The former "Battlestar" babe says of her role: "I wanted to just blow s–t up, and they were like, 'I don't know if we can do that.' I came in and sat down with the producers and writers, and we had a discussion as far as what they wanted from me and what I wanted to do, and hopefully we'll all (meet) in the middle, so we'll see."
The "My Name is Earl" star in George Clooney's "Delta Blues," playing Memphis cop Michael Hendricks, who lives with his mom and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator. Lee, whose "Earl" almost ended up on TNT's sibling network TBS, is also working on an Adult Swim skateboarding comedy that he might star in.
The "Idol" runner-up says he didn't want to make his sexuality an issue while on the show. "It's a hard thing that everybody's gonna have their opinion about," he says. "Some people in the gay community might look at it like, 'You really should've owned that. You didn't hide it, but you didn't admit it and that's weak.' My whole point is, I'm not trying to lead the f—ing way for the civil-rights movement that we're in right now. I just happen to be a gay man — and I'm not ashamed of that at all."
