DWTS TWP

I did like the show, though I felt they did all 8s since it was 'personal story' week, "a story about someone who died or some sort of triumph or whatever, and it just feels manipulative." (Television Without Pity) The judges can't mark down a lot without looking insensitive.
There was more weeping than usual. Jaleel especially was a surprise because it wasn't a death. A re-birth for him, when he didn't have to be the nerdy clown Steve Erkel.
Derek was sexier than ever, but he shook his finger, "No, no, it wasn't really a kiss." He usually looks professional, but she had taken him to women's wrestling the night before, and was dressed as Aphrodite.
William Levy looked great, if maybe a bit sloppy in Salsa, the dance he already knew. The time in Cuba was hard, but healthy, I think. A loaf of bread a day is not starving. So what if you don't get butter? The bitterness is the inability to get ahead if you have ambition, which he does.
I liked when Len called him William the Conqueror, English history, then he said "Awesome", and Tom said "In Massachusetts we say Wicked Awesome." I'd forgotten Tom is from Boston area. Joe's aunt knew him. She's getting senile, so I probably can't finagle an introduction.
Len withheld the 10 from Katherine because of Mark's choreography. Who needs all that open work when the dance is so beautiful in the close hold?