Debi Mazar, Dancing With The Stars
Contrary to widespread reports, Debi Mazar says she has absolutely no dancing experience on her résumé. So what's with all that B-girl talk? "I did a hip-hop TV pilot for a friend," the Dancing with the Stars contestant tells TVGuide.com. "All of the New York City breakers were the B-boys. I was just the girl who liked to dance at the clubs." But her rhythm in the clubs hasn't easily translated to the ballroom. "It's so grueling. I didn't know how to keep my feet together. I'm, like, f---ing pigeon-footed, like I'm about to take a sh-- or pee-pee. I look like an idiot!" the always sassy star says. Find out how she's learning to focus (and who gave her the advice), why she chose Maksim Chmerkovskiy as her partner and more.
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Maksim Chmerkovskiy may have met his perfect match — and we're not talking about Karina Smirnoff. The Dancing with the Stars pro is paired with the feisty Debi Mazar, and if you've seen Mazar's multiple tweets praising him to no end, it's clear they get along famously. "I think since we're both from Brooklyn and have that similarity, we just get along," Chmerkovskiy tells TVGuide.com. "We both can dish it out like hell and we can both take it. This whole back-and-forth thing is great and whenever you meet somebody who can make fun of themselves, it's always refreshing." Not so refreshing? Joanna Krupa calling him "a little impatient." See what the unabashedly honest dancer has to say about her comments and find out who he thinks is a dark horse this season.
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Dancing with the Stars
What's a dancing star without a pro partner? ABC has officially unveiled the 16 pairings for Season 9 of Dancing with the Stars. What do you think of these matchups?
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Im not sure if it was the bidding war over the newly-titled Smoke Jumpers Dramas emotional meltdown on The View or the whiff of desperation that seems to be surrounding Vince these days but tonights episode had a renewed energy and some of those laugh-out-loud lines that Ive been waiting for all season This is what I call progress Im no Hollywood insider but the entire interview with the ladies of daytime felt a little contrived though it did allow Johnny a chance for some cathartic release so hopefully we will get past this Jacqueline obsession Debi Mazar can always be counted on to deliver as the eternally perturbed Shauna and I enjoy the fact that she is now representing Johnny I would love to see what would happen if the two of them got together Could Shauna end up becoming Johnnys rebound girl The currently unemployed and unemployable Chase brother was reduced to a parade of meetings with disinterested studio chiefs Tom Rothm
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Debi Mazar by Gary Gershoff/WireImage.com
Debi Mazar (Entourage), Aida Turturro (The Sopranos) and Karen Duffy (Dumb and Dumber) are shopping around a syndicated talk show fancied as a New Jersey take on The View, sources tell the Reporter. The line for tickets forms at Exit 143.... Sci Fi Channel has greenlit Revolution, a futuristic (duh) action-drama pilot about colonists of the Earth-like New America fighting for independence from their increasingly hostile homeland, the United State.... Damon Wayans is cocreating a new family sitcom for ABC, one edgier in tone than My Wife & Kids and in which he will star as a widower who takes in the teen stepson he never knew.
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This season has been a real roller-coaster ride in terms of quality but tonights episode was most definitely a high point in my book First we had Gary Busey using Johnny Drama as his body art canvas Next Mary J Blige stopped in for her annual Make-Me-Understand-What-I-Pay-You-For meeting And finally Peter Jackson offered Eric a glimpse of legitimacy as Vinces representation All of these storylines were funny and entertaining and reminiscent of what Ive always liked best about this show how these four childhood friends navigate the ins and outs of HollywoodI dont know if Gary Busey is as crazy as his public persona would have you believe but he was pure lunacy tonight as he introduced Drama to the high art of body painting Meanwhile Ari prepped for his meeting with Mary J Blige while mediating the sibling rivalry between identical twin agents Naturally Mary J was the only one who could tell which was which and she happened to like the
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Happy Fathers Day to all you Entourage-loving dads out there I hope you spent your day kicking it Chase-style with your own broods The fourth season started off with a bang literally The boys from Queens made their way to the jungles of Colombia to film the life story of Pablo Escobar and despite the enormous odds against them it appears that they pulled off the impossible But the task was not without its challenges and from the previews it does not appear that they are completely out of the woods just yet Since this was the first time weve actually seen Vince filming a movie its hard to say how this Billy Walsh experience compared to Queens Boulevard If Billy was this explosive mercurial and insecure doing their first collaboration I find it hard to believe that Vince and Eric would have been so eager to work with him again But then as Billy admitted to Eric in a moment of weakness Queens Boulevard was a much smaller movie to shoot As
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After all the network-television season finales wreaked havoc on my emotional state this past week it was nice to take it down a notch with the guys I can always count on Entourage for good mindless entertainment that doesnt shock too often anyway and doesnt require much thinking Theres something to be said for reliable mindlessness I suspect that there are a lot of guys out there who really wouldnt mind having Vincent Chases problems Sure he had to sell his house to finance his dream project but in the meantime some billionaire Middle Eastern prince is ordering him to sleep with his hot wife As Tony Sopranos dearly departed mother would say Poor you I have to say again that Im really not thrilled with the direction that the show has taken over this most recent batch of episodes I definitely have missed Debi Mazar though I suspect that the filming of this arc probably coincided with her maternity leave Shaunas lightning wit
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This show had a two-week break, but it felt like more of a six-week break. Am I wrong? It really felt like the last new episode was ages ago. So, needless to say, I'm beyond happy we can get back to the business of finding out who's going to be the next Top Chef, and I am very grateful that this was a supersize edition. Everyone seems to despise Marcel, and Betty got the boot. There's so much to talk about:Elia: At the beginning of the episode she brings up the fact that she was almost eliminated and had no idea why Mia did what she did. Did they actually let her know that it was her name that was going to be called? Tom Colicchio's recent blog let us all know it definitely would have been Elia that got the boot. But at the time of the actual elimination, did Padma reveal everything to the chef wannabes after Mia exited stage left? And, I guess once you "pack your knives and go," you really hightail it out of there. Because, apparently, there was no time for Elia to talk to Mia abou...
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Question: Although I find it entertaining, I am disappointed by Entourage, primarily with Vince's character. Sure, the show is supposed to be a takeoff on the spoiled, somewhat easy lives of actors, but I can't get past Vince's reckless behavior this season. Ever since his funny Almost Famous breakdown scene (caused by "Aquaman"'s ticket sales), he's become grating. Letting a corrupt former cohort almost destroy his crew and reputation just because he once took the fall for Vince; letting the "Aquaman" deal fall through due to a pissing match; laughably criticizing the treatment of "Queens Boulevard" (like any agent would actually let someone crash and burn like that); and, in next week's previews, wanting to fire Ari , even though Vince started the war with the president of Warner Bros.? I loved the B-stories with all the other characters (although I wish we'd seen more of Shawna, even though I know Debi Mazar was pregnant and probably not working), but why should I care about Vince ...
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