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DOWN TO EARTH After flying high all season, Brooke made many mistakes in her first dance and got her most scathing reviews so far. But it was short-lived, as her second dance was back up to par.
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Cody Linley and Julianne: 46/60 The fourth-place pair performed an inexplicably military-themed paso doble, making the amount of round-one dances involving the removal and/or reapplication of a jacket an even 50 percent (Warren did it in his mambo). No elements of this dance made sense together — the drab green-and-white costumes, a horrific song choice, insanely bright spotlights, and vague attempts at actual paso moves by Cody. The poor kid's hands were trembling during his final pose, when he was supposed to look the most triumphant. When it was over, Bruno went ahead and did the robot for a few seconds, which fit right in. Julianne's insistence backstage that Cody wasn't stiff and wooden like the judges claimed was well-intentioned, but annoying in its falseness. Cody is adorable. He just really cannot dance.
Mmmm...salsa. Cody fared a little better in round two, showing some stomach for absolutely no reason and executing a very manly overhead lift, plus another one at the end. Julianne threw in some well-timed spins and splits, and voila! Triple 8s. (This was probably my favorite Julianne costume of the season, by the way — accentuated by a needless, sequined ankle wrap that I consider the ballroom version of the Active Ankles I had to wear during high school volleyball.) Bruno called Cody ''a leetle cheeky devil,'' then expressed worry that he might have strangled Julianne, then imitated said strangle twice.
So come on, dance masters! Who's heading home tonight: The soldier, the sailor, the casino employee, or Snuffleupagus?
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