Shark Bytes

Tom Hanks is a star. Julia Roberts is a star. Marie Osmond and Marlee Matlin *were* stars for a breif period of time.

WIth all this "reality" and "celebrity" shows on TV, I have rediscovered the ages old entertainment format of reading. Turns out those posters from my old elementary school classrooms were right. Books aren't bad. And with the state of TV and this age of stupid Youtube videos, books are the greatest thing on earth. God bless the man who invented books.

Marissa should not have made it as far as she did. All the porkers voted for her because that way they didn't have to feel guilty about stuffing their faces. Did you people see Tony and Marissa do a lift? Did you see Marissa bend over in the group dance? Fatties and uglies are jealous of the attractive sexy female pro dancers,

Glorified talent show with sad, sad "celebrities"

Kristi deserved to win, but there was also no way to beat her, which any ice skating fan knew from the outset. So did the producers. And they maneuvered the two they wanted in the finals brilliantly. Starting before anybody hit the dance floor. Both finalists were good - Kristi excellent - but it was planned that way.

I personally watched only to see Marlee and Marissa. Loved both of them.

Note to the half naked female pro dancers. You look ridiculous, and you don't appear to understand something the producers do know. The largest voting group are women between roughly 16 and 55. We don't vote for you because your soft porn appearance is offensive. The men you think you are impressing are watching in much smaller numbers, and are either teenagers with prurient interest or dirty old men. The leer, they don't waste time or money voting.

You gals need to get a clue. You look trashy, and you all know full well young children are watching this show. But if incurring the ire of women viewers and voters doesn't bother you - fine, jut don't expect to win too often in the future.

Christie was the best. She deserved to win!

I think Marissa was totally annoying, but weight had nothing to do with it at all...don't think this has been a very good season at all, and Kristi is just as annoying.

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Marissa finally was eliminated. Yippee!! Still, though, the show jumped the shark big time this season.

Yes, there are cynical British judges on most of these shows: American Idol, America’s Got Talent, the show about the best invention (can’t think of the name of it), Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance. Then we have Gordon Ramsay on Hell’s Kitchen.

As far as this pain Marissa, the only way to get her off the screen and stop them from giving her the trophy is to fight fire with fire – power block voting for another contestant (Kristi or Jason are my choices), because those idiot Xena fans are voging several hundred times for Marissa, and Marissa is viting for herself because she is “having a blast”. I can’t stand her.

This show is so far down the list of "stars" by now that it is hard to tell which one is the celebrity and which one is the "star". Next season they will probably have that fat tub that's on "Lost" and a middle relief pitcher from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Now we have a nightly dramatic twist on ET as Donny Osmond, another 'star" anal-izes it for us. "Marie faints! And lands on Dr. Quinn's dying mother!" And why does every one of these judge shows have to have a cynical English guy on the panel? This show is crap.

How about a slightly different format for"Dancing With the Stars." We've see what the younger generations can do, how about giving us seniors a chance to "Trip the Light Fantastic" and call it "Dancing Wth Grandma and Grandpa".

Marissa is certainly confident that those whackjob Xena fans will carry her to the finals, and then to the win. Last Monday at rehearsal she said to Tony “next week someone else will be sent home then we will be in the FINALS. Wheee!”

She is so self-absorbed it’s pathetic. In addition to ballot stuffing, she’s also playing the cancer survivor card and the surrogate mon card not to mention the weight card (“boo hoo I’m not a size 2. I’m doing it for the big gals”) She makes me sick.

From The Washington Post:

There are more important things to get riled up about, but this television show with its glossy faux reality is so simple, so silly, so wonderfully frothy that it is positively unnerving to watch it take such a terrible, wrongheaded turn.

No one with eyesight and a sense of rhythm could argue with a straight face that Winokur deserved to stay. She is a Tony Award-winning actress with musical theater chops, but make no mistake, in this celeb dance-off, she is the beneficiary of the sympathy vote. She has the "You go, chubby girl!" constituency -- that condescending rush of support from those who believe that anyone over a size 4 who can shake her hips to the beat of a cha-cha-cha is some sort of savant. Voters have been swept up in her gushing, raspy, please-wean-yourself-off-the-Red Bull enthusiasm. They fell for it, talent be damned.

I don't have a problem with Marissa's weight, it's her phoney gaming and grinning and screeching that gets to me. Here's the latest: Marissa is good friends with Lucy Lawless (Xena) and on Lucy Lawless's website (look at right hand side) Marissa posts her blog. She recently claims she got an e-mail from a young girl named "Heather" who voted for her 615 times. I think Marissa is voting for herself like crazy, she admits going home and creating dozens of email accounts and voting for herself. Wgat a crock that is. She begs for people to vote fo rher so she can be on cover of TV Guide, never asks for votes because of her dancing whihc is barely mediocre. The crazy Xena fans are keeping her in. I also read that Marissa is going to get a talk show set to launch in 2009. That will be a worse disaster than her dancing.

Christian should have been given a zero score when he stopped his dance due to his injured arm. Then he should have been voted off by the public. What a croc!