{"id":623,"date":"2007-03-20T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T12:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/03\/20\/1174392712805.html"},"modified":"2007-03-20T07:11:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T12:11:52","slug":"blogentry-dancing-with-the-stars-is-back-season-4-premiere-3192007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Dancing with the Stars Is Back : Season 4 Premiere  3\/19\/2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#039;m going to start to fall behind here for a little bit since they sprung the premiere on me early, so my apologies ahead of time.  Since we haven&#039;t finished the show yet at my house I&#039;ll save the review of the actual dancers until tonight.  But here&#039;s thoughts on the premiere itself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#039;s funny how they&#039;re hyping &#034;they only had 4 weeks to train instead of 6!&#034; like it&#039;s a big thing, and then they say &#034;But the first week there&#039;ll be no eliminations.&#034;  In other words, &#034;We just wanted to get on tv earlier.&#034;  A week of dancing without eliminations?  So, basically, the show is just a 2 hour introduction to the cast?  Ummm&#8230;\n<li>I&#039;m surprised that the producers haven&#039;t yet realized that the professional dancers are becoming stars in their own right at this point.  What the heck was up with that mess of an opening number?  Kerry and I were frantically looking for the dancers we recognized from past years.  I&#039;m disappointed that I didn&#039;t see Ashley, the little cute one who got stuck with Master P.  I liked her.  Why in the world couldn&#039;t they have worked in introductions to the dancers at that point?  Even when the stars themselves came out, there was a graphic showing the dancer&#039;s name, without so much as a &#034;from last season&#034; or anything.  They&#039;re still using the same introductions for the dancers that they&#039;ve used since the beginning.  Boring.  If a dancer&#039;s been on the show before (besides Cheryl, we all know Cheryl&#039;s going to be the camera darling this time around), show some clips of their dancing.\n<li>And speaking of that chaotic opening number, just how bad is the camera work going to be this year?  That was painful to watch.  I haven&#039;t seen all the pairs dancing yet, but when Joey Fatone was dancing we saw a cameraman or something run across the screen.  That&#039;s just great.\n<li>Heather Mills would rather be known as &#034;charity campaigner&#034; and &#034;first dancer with an artificial limb&#034; than &#034;Paul McCartney&#039;s ex-wife&#034;?  This is supposed to be dancing with the *stars*, right?  I wonder if anybody will dance to any Beatles covers.\n<li>Oh my god how bad did Billy Ray Cyrus look?  I wonder if he&#039;ll be the first one gone this time around?  That would be karma &#8212; his partner is Karina, who pretty much lost the championship last year on her personality alone.  Serves her right getting her hair pulled out of her head.  Ouch. \ud83d\ude42\n<li>Did anybody else feel a little weird with the champ from season one out there dancing?  I&#039;d almost forgotten about the lost season. You know, the one where it was fixed, before they realized that they might have a hit on their hands.\n<li>Here&#039;s some totally trivial trivia.  One of the pairs danced to &#034;Ballroom Blitz.&#034;  In the movie Wayne&#039;s World, this song was performed by &#8230;  Tia Carrere, former Dancing With The Stars competitor.  I said it was trivial.\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of this writing I saw Ian, Billy Ray, Leeza, Paulina and Joey dance.  Ian was the best, Billy Ray the worst.  Leeza was surprisingly stiff, she&#039;s not doing her Lisa Rinna spot justice if she&#039;s going to dance like that.<\/p>\n<p\/>Like I said, I&#039;ll write more once I see the whole show.<br \/>\nI&#039;m thinking about trying to track the music this year, but that might be pushing my luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#039;m going to start to fall behind here for a little bit since they sprung the premiere on me early, so my apologies ahead of time. Since we haven&#039;t finished the show yet at my house I&#039;ll save the review of the actual dancers until tonight. 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