America's Next Top Model: Where the Girls AreDid anyone else get the sense that this was all about Tyra convincing us that the Top Models do eventually model after the show and aren't just doomed to a career of guest shots on UPN shows? No? Never mind. Well, it is nice to see some of my favorites — Brittany, Toccara, Yoanna and Ann — looking like they really get campaigns and runway gigs. During her season I don't think I ever wished as much evil on Yaya as I did after her bit about "acting" with Antonio Banderas — from her story it sounded like her scene took a whole lot of takes; perhaps it wasn't quite as perfect as her pretentious death scene with Taye Diggs. But oh, how we love to hate Camille even
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Question: In your Jan. 9 posting, Christine asked why roughly five million people who watch Desperate Housewives do not watch Grey's Anatomy. You presented one logical explanation, that some people do not watch past 10 pm/ET due to work the next day. Then you seem perplexed by the rest of us who like to stay with Housewives but not with Grey's Anatomy. To start out with, I would consider myself a connoisseur of television. I say this so that you won't consider me a simple dolt who just watches action and procedural shows. I love good writing, chemistry between the actors, intelligent interactions, interesting background. But to me, it's simple. I do not like shows with a straight-out "soap opera" formula (their main focus is how many people they can get their characters involved with in varying situations) like ER, Grey's Anatomy, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Gilmore Girls, etc. I admit that I watched the first few shows of Anatomy, ER and L.A. Law but soon grew bored by the soap-opera ...
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Kristen Bell, Veronica Mars
America's Next Top ModelI honestly agree this must have been a tough choice for the judges. At the top of the hour, we had two very photogenic girls and one telegenic one. Despite surviving the bottom two for four times in a row, I think Bre knew she wasn't going to make it to the second half of the episode. But for a second there, it looked like Nicole was going to sabotage herself, with her whiny "the lights are blinding me, kinda" meltdown. It was pretty unfair that they were judged on unedited footage of the ads. Especially considering how many times Tyra's words are so obviously overdubbed, not to mention Jay's own embarrassing commercials two cycles ago. Still, Bre's photographs were never as good as Nik's and Nicole's. How sad was it
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