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First Look: “Liz & Dick” trailer

September 21, 2012 Lori Acken

It’s the movie they said would never get made thanks to the off-screen antics of its controversial star, Lindsay Lohan — but the newly-released trailer for Lifetime’s upcoming Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton biopic Liz & Dick suggests the project could be irresistible for much more than a just a peek to see if she can really pull it off. With sumptuous sets and costumes, and enough drama crammed into just this 30-second peek to make your cheeks flush, the film — directed by veteran telefilm maker Larry Thompson and penned by Temple Grandin screenerwriter Christopher Monger — delves into the violet-eyed […]

“Dance Moms” Reunion Show Part 1 recap: Here’s What We’ve Learned Thus Far

September 19, 2012 Lori Acken

Even though Hubby Rik and I agreed that, as serious students of the Dance Momian arts since Season 1 Episode 1, we didn’t especially learn as much as we were hoping, we still learned plenty from Part 1 of last night’s Dance Moms reunion show. Here are the highlights. 1) How Badass is Abby? This Badass! — No word on whether the necklace/bracelet/ring ensemble was crafted from the skulls of lippy dance moms of yore, but my cash is on it. 2) Having A TV Show = The Best Makeover Program Ever — Also, blonder is better. […]

Dance Moms finale recap: Drivin’ and Cryin’

September 12, 2012 Lori Acken

And here we are, the Dance Moms Season 2 finale. Everybody OK? Extra thermoses of Mommy Juice, just in case? Just remember, we still have each other. We’ll be all right. The mommies need time off, too, to see their therapists and shop for dresses and junk like that. We’ll all be fine. But first we have 90 minutes of cliff-hangin’, nationals-goin’, everybody’s-cryin’ mayhem to get through. So let’s. After hollering at everyone for being a big bucket of meh at In10sity, Abby informs the Pitt Crew that, nonetheless, we are staying in California. In fact, we are heading for […]

“Dance Moms” episode 25 recap: National Measure

September 5, 2012 Lori Acken

Dance Moms Episode 25: Last ep till the season finale, kids. Are we all prepped for the long, cold months ahead with no Dance Moms? I mean, we’ll have Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition to tide us over — and I’ve talked to her about it, so watch for that coming soon — but if the moms and their girls are the draw for you, that’s probably only some consolation. I’ve heard reliable rumblings of reunion shows to shorten the gap, but nothing official just yet. I’ll keep you posted. And I wonder if they can borrow Andy Cohen to host if […]

“Dance Moms” episode 24 recap: Kaya-yi!

August 29, 2012 Lori Acken

And so it came. The dreaded Dance Moms Episode 24: Since I am pretty sure that Christi had no idea how this thing would edit out, I’m not sure if she was warning me about the preposterousness of Abby inserting a kid who walked in off the street smack-dab into the competition team in time for a trip to L.A.; or the kid’s swear-word-loving, afro-sporting mom whose interactions with the Pitt Crew afford us one uncomfortable moment after the next over issues of race and social class and sexuality and the pinnacle price of stage-mothering; or … what. But in […]

“Dance Moms” recap: Light My Ire

August 21, 2012 Lori Acken

Welcome to the very special No Competition Edition of the Dance Moms blog. However shall we have us a pyramid next week without a competition? How ever? Oh wait. We mostly do this by Mom behavior, not kid behavior, anyway. Problem solved. After happy kudos to the group for beating Cathy’s various assemblages of Apples at Starbound Nationals — a feat that results in this awesome win-face from Abby — we launch right on into this week’s pyramid. Bottom of the bottom is Paige – She’s injured. Well, and Brooke didn’t make Abby mad this week. Maddie — She said […]

“Dance Moms” recap: Boys Rule, Chicks Cruel

August 15, 2012 Lori Acken

Well, I was kinda hoping we might start this week’s outing by addressing why Abby went outer limits at duet-winner Chloe at the end of last week’s episode, but I guess not. And given that we’re chugging ever closer the end of Season 2, I should really stop grasping for a plotline to cling to like the Maddie-Chloe rivalry of simpler days gone by. And yet I cannot. Abby’s still speaking remedial French, though. And she seems downright tickled at how Starbound Philly went. So whatever the “Sneaky Sneaky” meltdown that sent Chloe fleeing in tears was about, I guess c’est […]

“Dance Moms” recap: French Diss

August 8, 2012 Lori Acken

Or … “The one in which I find out what that ‘Alouette’ song I learned in Girl Scouts really means.” But first, did everyone come through two weeks with no new Dance Moms okay? Everybody good? Catch a little Olympics action? Or … whatever else they air on Tuesday nights? And now we’re back, but Paige and Kelly aren’t. Turns out, they’re at the doctor for the foot Paige crunched backstage at last episode’s competition in Lancaster. Abby uses this information as a teaching moment: The girls have to understand that their bodies are their instruments. Or Abby’s instruments, anyway. Little talented tools […]

“Dance Moms” star Abby Lee Miller gets new Lifetime dance-competition show

August 6, 2012 Lori Acken

Dance Moms fans, if you’re wondering what you’re going to do when Season 2 wraps up this fall, Lifetime just provided the answer. And it’s a doozy. The network has picked up a 10-episode run of Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, in which our favorite dance-teaching diva Abby Lee Miller will join Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin and dancer/choreographer Richard Jackson in choosing one of the country’s most talented young dancers to receive a $100,000 cash prize and a scholarship to the Young Dancer Program at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. (Yes, my fellow Chloe Lukasiak fans, I know what you’re thinking, because I’m thinking […]

Can men live without women? Lifetime shows us in “The Week the Women Went”

July 27, 2012 Barb Oates

Seriously, a week without women? No big deal, right? Not the case, as Lifetime documents in The Week the Women Went — a four-episode series the network is hyping as “a social experiment of biblical proportions,” slated to premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 9pm ET/PT [although the network has changed this premiere date twice already]. Based on a similar British series that aired on the BBC, the project takes place in the small town of Yemassee, South Carolina, located about 250 miles southeast of Atlanta. Of a town of roughly 1,000, about 150 women agreed to participate, packing up […]