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Tonight's Dancing with the Stars finale started with a bittersweet montage, narrated by Tom Bergeron, only to segu inappropriately into the upbeat theme music. Yikes. Then the show opened with a number featuring all the performers who didn't make it (minus Corky) dancing, to eventually be joined by their partners one by one: The Hoff, Margaret, The Situation, Florence (and Corky), Rick, Kurt,...

The penultimate show of Season 11 led of with a little minor key music to indicate tension, as though we didn't know there was any and a bunch of silly pronouncements by the remaining stars about what they've gone through and how much they all want to win. "Duh!" we shouted, "Get on with the show!"

Then the remaining stars made their way down the Staircase of Horror: Kyle, resplendent in a...

As tonight's Dancing with the Stars results show opened, we steeled ourselves for what we expected would be the inevitable (and, we daresay, so did Tom Bergeron): that last nights performances and the effects of Operation Bristol would take out either Jennifer, Brandy, or Kyle. Brandy looked brutally nervous, Jennifer looked calm and collected, Kyle looked decent and Bristol actually looked...

When Bristol Palin first took the dance floor in the premiere episode of Season 11 of Dancing with the Stars, few expected the teen-mom-turned-abstinence-advocate to perform particularly well. But in the first few weeks, she proved her critics wrong, turning in decent dances even as the judges gently nudged her repeatedly to up her performance level to match her nascent dancing abilities....

As we are reminded, the finals begin next week where, if Tammy Bruce's Operation Bristol is successful, Bristol will battle for the trophy but this week was the semi-finals and there was still a brief, flickering glimmer of hope that the stars who deserved to be in the finals by virtue of their performances and dancing skills would make it there. But it was time to set that aside! It was...