America's Next Top Model

May
15
'America's Next Top Model': Plus size prevails

WackjobsI have been saying for several weeks that the producers were hell-bent on having a plus-size winner this cycle. (Just ask my friend Lori. I said those exact words to her last week.)

Well, they went and got themselves one, as Whitney beat out natural beauty Fatima and high-fashion prodigy Anya for the title.

If only I had devised a drinking game wherein I took a shot every time either Whitney or Tyra uttered the phrase "Plus Size" it would have been a much easier season to endure.

RunwayThere's just not a whole lot to say here. After an utterly disastrous Cover Girl shoot in which Whitney was the only one who managed to do an entire take without blowing it, Fatima is sent home. She really was the only one with a model's look. But, as Paulina says, imperfections are what sets a girl apart. Hard to believe that coming from perfect Paulina.

So Anya and Whitney move on to the Versace runway show and they were both, you know, OK, but not spectacular. (I think that could be the tagline to this entire Cycle 10.) They each struggle with their problematic second gowns - Anya barely able to walk due to the narrowness of of the bottom of her dress and Whitney nearly faceplanting several times after repeatedly catching her heel in the flowy train.

WinnerAt panel, none of the judges is overly effusive about either girl but they ultimately decide that Whitney is the lesser of two evils. And being normal sized sends a message to America… or something like that.

And after weeks and weeks of enduring whining and moaning about how difficult life is for Whitney being "plus-size" Tyra finally tells us that the proper term is "full figured model." You couldn't have told Whitney, and us, that weeks ago - just to break up the monotony? Thanks.

And, just to tide you over til next cycle, Tyra does that "smiling with her eyes" demonstration again. Woo!

Congratulations Whitney. May a Lane Bryant contract be in your futures. Except for the fact that she's like a size 8. Still smaller than 90% of the women in this country.

— Kathy Lyford

May
8
'America's Next Top Model': Dom can't believe Dom didn't win

DomIf the title had been "America's Next Big Trash Talker," Dominque would have won long ago. Alas, it's "America's Next Top Model," so Dom has taken her leave. Not a moment too soon for me.

It seems like if you have a face that looks good from only a couple very specific angles and from all other angles makes you look like a tranny, maybe this isn't the competition for you. She should be proud of herself she made it as far as she did. And I'm pretty sure she is proud of herself. That's what she did best.

This really might be the weakest top three in the history of the show. You have Fatima, who was blessed with a perfect face but has yet to learn how to pose; Anya, who is lovely and looks like a model but who has trouble forming a sentence; and Whitney who will never get over the phony, overacting business. Wait, that last thing may not be a problem. It seems to work for Miss Tyra.

WhitI guess the producers are running out of money for challenge guests as the season winds down because the reward challenge involved the final four taking pictures of Paulina and the elimination challenge used everyone's favorite "noted fashion photographer, Nigel Barker."

The reward challenge was kind of dull as it served only to showcase how hot Paulina still is. How hard would it be, really, to get a great shot of her? I'm pretty sure my niece could do that with her Hello Kitty camera. Anya and Dom are lost as photographers. Whitney did a great job but was outshined by Fatima, who wins 50 extra frames for the photo shoot with Nigel. Fifty extra frames that she will waste.

FatThe photo shoot, which involved posing with a male model and pretending to be a star running from the paparazzi, seemed to really throw all four girls for a loop. Maybe they were just nervous posing for the smoking hot Nigel. Understandable. Anya got her best shot only because she tripped on a step. Whitney's photo was stunning but looked, guess what?, posey. And Fatima is only still with us because Dominique sucked more.

AnyaAnd that's what we get going into next week's finale. What a snooze of a season. If I had to guess what's going to happen, I'd say Anya barely squeaks by in the Cover Girl ad, reaching the final runway walk. There she'll face Whitney, because they seem determined to have a plus size girl in the finale this year. Also, Fatima is bound to do something dumb. Then Anya will crush Whitney in the final runway show, emerging as the winner. And Whitney will go home where she will never again be called "plus size" at a size 8.

See, I've saved myself and all of you from having to watch next week. You can thank me later.

— Kathy Lyford

April
24
‘America’s Next Top Model’: When in Rome

The camaraderie displayed last week has gone out the window. The final 6 are in Rome and after a bit more kvetching about “travel documents” Fatima announces that she’s not feeling well and goes off to bed. Not only does she get no sympathy, the girls (with the notable exception of sweet, adorable Anya) are downright rude and proceed to make fun of her. Um, hello? Wasn’t Dom sick a few weeks back? Didn’t Lauren have to be rushed to the hospital just last week with the thumb thing she couldn’t stop talking about. What a bunch of catty witches.

RomeReward challenge: When the Tyra mail comes (Ms. Banks as Mona Lisa, thank you very much), the girls are off on a tour of Rome and a lesson in Italian style from a hottie who works for designer Gai Mattiolo. The tour culminates in reward challenge involving a meet and greet with Gai who has them each model one of his outfits. He’s not overly impressed with five of them, particularly Dom, who he deems “not fresh.” Hee. However, he borders on stalkerish with Anya, who he calls “blond, young, fresh, tall, beautiful and blond.”

Obviously she wins the prize, a red carpet original Mattiolo gown. And it’s gorgeous. And, although she’s gracious, the green-eyed monsters rear their ugly heads as the other girls begin to bitch about Anya always winning. It’s a Karma thing, you dopes. Live with it.

WhitElimination challenge: Tyra mail! It’s time for the Covergirl 30-second commercial challenge. OH BOY! This is always the most entertaining challenge of the season and this one doesn’t disappoint. They have to learn their lines in Italian. Oh, thank you, producers. This is going to be good.

As my fondness for Anya has grown, I’ve been concerned about her making it through this challenge. Her obvious speech difficulties don’t bode well here. Luckily, everyone basically faceplants and she’s saved by her undeniable model looks.
Kat delivers spot-on Italian, but dull acting; Fatima vamps it up a bit too much; Dominique and Whitney are, guess what?, fake; and Anya and Lauren are disastrous, but Lauren is worse. Not only could she not say the lines but she didn’t even try. I honestly think she could have saved herself by just saying “Pizza, lasagne, fettucini and Sophia Loren!” with a little bit of enthusiasm. When in trouble, make them laugh, right?

Judges panel: At panel the judges all have a hearty giggle over the filmed train wrecks. I had to roll my eyes as they told Whitney that when she gets in front of the camera her personality turns “fake and bitchy.” News flash to the judges: Bitch is Whitney’s default. She’s not faking that.

LaurenBottom two: Whitney and Lauren land at the bottom two. Awkward Lauren finally reaches the end of the road. Although she takes stunning photographs I don’t see a modeling career in her future. Bye Lauren, you will be missed.

Tyra's most over-the-top moment: Saying almost everything in an Italian accent.

Favorite: Anya

Can’t wait to see her go: Dom

— Kathy Lyford

April
17
‘America’s Next Top Model’: Party favors

PlaneThe departure of Claire seems to have brought a new harmony to the household as we find the girls not only getting along but being supportive of one another. Will wonders never cease?

We start off with Fatima explaining her immigration issues. She is not a U.S. citizen and has lost her travel documents. And she’s just now realized that we are approaching that time in the season when the girls travel abroad for the remainder of the competition. So suddenly she’s worried. She really is kind of helpless, this girl. So she spends a good portion of the episode on the phone with attorneys and producers, trying to get the situation cleared up.

Whitney continues to ramp up the obnoxiousness and moves ever further down my list of favorites, while Kat properly uses “whom” in a sentence and immediately moves right to the top.

Meanwhile, Lauren cuts her thumb badly trying to chop an onion and is rushed to the hospital for stitches. Eww. Who’s bright idea was it to give the awkward girl a knife?

A good portion of the remainder of the episode goes something like this:

Fatima: Travel docs, blah, blah, blah. Can’t go abroad, blah, blah, blah. Why is this happening? blah, blah blah.

Whitney: Plus size, blah, blah, blah. I deserve to win because I’m different, blah, blah, blah. I have boobs and a butt, blah, blah. Ugh.

Lauren: I cut my thumb off. Ow. Ow. Ow.

After a lesson in poise and interview techniques from Paulina, the girls are summoned to a party sponsored by 7-Up, where they must work the red carpet and be interviewed by Lara Spencer, then mingle at a party of VIPs, none of whom I recognize. Also, they are given Jay Godfrey frocks to wear. The results are amusing with Whitney and Stacy-Ann turning up the fakeness, Lauren cussing during the interview and Dom forgetting the name of the designer. Spectacular! Other than the initial potty mouth, Lauren proves to be quite outgoing at the party but Anya surprises everyone with her grace and charm, winning yet another challenge where she gets to pose naked. This time she also gets a big, fat check for $10 grand. Wow.

Next, the models are told to pack up their stuff and go to the airport where they believe they will be boarding a plane to their final destination. But we all know a photo shoot must come first. Well, the audience did at least. The models seem surprised.

The task is to pose in "Sound of Music"-type travel clothes for a manipulated group shot where, once again, Whitney and Stacy-Ann make like Sears catalog models and completely over-pose and Anya shows the others how it’s done.

Fatima missed the entire shoot while at the consulate fixing her document problems. And Miss Tyra is not at all happy about it at the surprise airport judges panel, where Mr. Jay gets to be the guest judge!

Called first: Anya, who’s truly becoming the front-runner. Lord help her overcome the accent issues when they have to shoot the Covergirl ad.

Bottom two: Fatima who had no photo and Stacy-Ann, who the judges feel has hit a plateau.

And Stacy is out! How humiliating to lose to someone who didn’t even take a photo. Bye Stacy, you were a breath of fresh air.

And the girls are off to Rome…

— Kathy Lyford

April
3
‘America’s Next Top Model: Cycle 10’: Can we all just get along?

The remaining eight contestants on this cycle of “America’s Next Top Model” could just as easily have participated in the “Ultimate Fighting Championships” what with all the ridiculous rivalries and temper tantrums.

So I’ve decided to switch allegiances from the girls who take the prettiest pictures to the ones who rise above the fray and don’t stoop to fighting about alarm clocks, phones and cereal. Katarzyna and Stacy-Ann, you’ve just moved to the top of my favorites list. Anya gets an honorable mention.

We open the episode with another Dominique “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful” speech where she continues to spout off about how nobody likes her because she is so intimidating and powerful and they know they can’t measure up. News flash, darling, they hate you because you’re a bitch. At least that's what the editing implies.

Catfight of the week: Lauren and Fatima get into it over a cup of coffee. Really girls? Lauren goes slightly psychotic in her rage fest but Fatima is just as scary with her manipulative, evil ways. It’s really growing tiresome.

Can we get to some form of competition? Please?

Reward challenge: The girls are sent, in groups of four, to go-sees. It’s early for that. Usually we don’t get to the go-sees until the top 6 go to their designated final country. Also, it’s much harder for them to get lost as a group so that did away with the entertaining part of it, where some poor girl wanders the streets of a foreign land hopelessly lost.

What we get instead is Whitney & Dominique and Lauren & Fatima playing one-upmanship throughout the whole challenge. Fun!

Also, Whitney needs to decide whether she wants to embrace her full figure or use it as a crutch because she doesn’t get to do both. She gets all bent when Pamella deVos tells her she’s lovely but they only want size 2s. Well, guess what, Fatima also got nixed by the same designer for being too small (for a size 2!). That’s life. Get over it and stop whining already.

And swimsuit/lingerie designer Shoshanna (who, by the by, used to date Jerry Seinfeld), likes models of all sizes. So, see Whitney, it all balances out in the end.

Ultimately the team of Claire, Stacy-Ann, Dominique and Whitney win with Stacy-Ann booking the most jobs. Looks like my new favorite may do all right by me. The team gets to do a photo spread for Seventeen magazine.

FatPhoto Shoot: Off to a theater where the Off Broadway performance show “Fuerza Bruta” takes place. The girls have to writhe around on a giant water-filled mylar platform not dissimilar to a Slip-n-Slide. They get no hair product or makeup and the photog shoots them from underneath through the plastic.

This contraption might make for a fun evening at the theater but the resulting photos are not attractive and I think most of the girls lucked into good shots. Those hitting the most lucky shots were Whitney, Fatima and Anya.

Also Claire can’t follow directions and practically breaks her neck, much to the delight of Dom. SHUT UP DOMINIQUE.

Judges panel: Tyra does bad British and Eastern European accents, Nigel makes it pretty clear he’s not a Fatima fan and Dominique gets dinged for her obscene tights and “Something About Mary” hairdo. Hee.

Tyra's most over-the-top moment: See above

First called: Fatima (damn)

ClairBottom two: Claire (not versatile enough) and Lauren (continued awkwardness).

And it’s bye-bye Claire, who rides off into the sunset still making excuses and feeling guilty for leaving her infant child at home. Claire, I thought you had potential. You disappointed me.

New favorites: Stacy-Ann and Katarzyna

Can’t wait to see her go: Dominque

— Kathy Lyford

March
27
‘America’s Next Top Model: Cycle 10’: Musical chairs

My tivo seems to have something against insipid, skinny girls learning to properly have their picture taken. For two weeks running, there has been a recording problem. Last night it was a basketball overrun. But I’ll do my best to fill you in.

Last week: Remarkably boring episode highlighted by Dominique, Whitney and Fatima competing for the title of queen bitch. And lowlighted by the marvelous Marvita being sent home after it was deemed she’d lost her desire. I shall miss her.

On to last night’s episode:

Reward challenge: A posing lesson with Tyra where she teaches “the walk,” “the three-second pose,” and how to use pain to help them with their poses. That’s an actual technique? Who knew?

It’s a surprise reward challenge, which Anya wins. Her prize? She gets to roll around naked on a bed while Nigel shoots her photos. So, best reward ever in the history of reality television if you ask me.

Tyra’s most over-the-top moment: Pretending to sprain her ankle to demonstrate posing with pain. Girl really needs some acting lessons.

WhitCatfight of the week: Dom is causing problems by ignoring her alarm, which pisses off Claire, then Anya, then Lauren. All three of these girls are pretty passive, so good work there Dominique. That’s really quite an accomplishment. Then Whitney joins in and it seems the whole house is anti-Dom, as I would be if I lived there. Fatima was strangely silent throughout. The fight is revisited later when Dom is not feeling well and is trying to sleep. At this point Claire, Lauren and Whitney won’t let her rest and are all acting like children and I am no longer taking sides.

Photo shoot: Embodying different music styles for “world famous” photog Russell James, who I at first thought was Nigel in a surfer boy wig. Fatima is adequate as “metal rock”; Kat is “emo”; Lauren struggles but ultimately shines as “pop” and Whitney rocks “grunge.” We also see Dom as “folk,” Anya as “punk” and Stacy-Ann as “house.” Coming in at the bottom are Aimee as "R&B," which she can’t grasp at all and Claire in a ridiculous country-Western getup. CountryWhen I think country music, I think Carrie Underwood, so the big hair and fluffy skirt were not only ridiculous, but they made this challenge particularly unfair to my girl Claire.

Judges panel: My tivo cut off about a minute into panel so I had to ask around to see what happened. Damn you, basketball overrun.

First one called: Whitney, rebounding nicely from her bottom 2 finish last week.

Botom2Bottom 2: Aimee and Claire, who gets a Tyra scolding for her lackluster shoot. Wish I could have seen that.

Eliminated: Mormon good-girl Aimee. Those pesky religious convictions always seem to get in the way of top model-dom.

Favorites: Lauren and Whitney. Claire lost some points with her petulant behavior.

Can’t wait to her go: Dominique

— Kathy Lyford

March
13
'America's Next Top Model: Cycle 10': Meat and potoatoes

Fire_2Runway lesson: Off to a fire station (oh boy, eye candy!) where the girls have 90 seconds to change into little fireman/exotic dancer outfits. Fatima forgets her shoes and gets a scolding from Miss J. Then they must walk while the firemen watch. See, reality challenges aren’t all bad. Most of them are getting the hang of this walking thing but Fatima clomps her feet “like a Clydesdale,” Dominique tries out some stripper moves; Amis skips and Lauren? Well, she’s just awkward. I think poor Lauren may have trouble walking from her couch to her refrigerator.

Catfight of the week: Aimee calls dibs on the shower so she can lock herself in the bathroom due to her modesty issues. That sets off most everyone since they all have to pee. Whitney jumps to Aimee’s defense and Dominique, Fatima and Marvita get irrationally angry. I have a feeling Dom spends a good portion of her life irrationally angry.

Reward challenge: Cycle 8 winner Jaslene pays a visit to explain the challenge and designer Bryan Bradley from Tuleh is there, along with runway producer Andrew Weir and Seventeen editor in chief Ann Shoket. The girls must do a quick change into their assigned Tuleh outfit and then walk the runway. The winner will appear in an ad in Seventeen with Jaslene for Lot 29. Fatima buttoned her sweater wrong (hey, who hasn’t done that!?) and Lauren looked as if she was running to catch a plane. Lauren gets a harsh smackdown from Jaslene. Everyone else is unremarkable but Katarzyna wins the challenge and chooses Marvita and Amis to join her in the shoot. See, everyone loves Marvita. She’s hard not to like.

MoremeatPhoto shoot: Posing with raw meat, dressed in raw meat at a meat packing plant. Ugh. They’re not going to sell that meat now are they? I may not have steak for a while.

Tyra’s most over-the-top moment: Introducing the judges by singing their names/credentials opera-style

Judges panel: Paulina grasps the obvious parallels between the photo shoot and models being treated like raw meat. Thanks for pointing that out. Amis slept until five minutes before panel and then threw on an outfit that made her look like a 5-year-old allowed to dress herself for the very first time. Miss Tyra, as one might expect, was not happy. Most of the photos are disturbing, frankly, due more to the creepy eye makeup they used on the girls than to the meat bikinis. Anya and Whitney are the first names called and the elimination comes down to Fatima, because of her Shit Zu puppy face in every shot, or Amis, due to general lack of enthusiasm and focus.

ElimEliminated: Amis. Good riddance.

Favorites: Still Claire, Whitney and Marvita. Also Lauren.

Can’t wait to see her go: Aimee

— Kathy Lyford

March
6
'America's Next top Model': Experience won't help you here

Sorry for missing last week everybody, there was an unfortunate Tivo incident at my house and I wasn’t able to watch until Sunday.

Let me recap episode two for you: It was boring. Want more? Oh, OK.

The show’s home base moves back to New York. I guess they ran out of Hollywood Hills mansions to pimp? The two innovations this season are the Fab Cab, a giant Hummer taxi that shepherds the contestants around town. Evidently we’re done with the “green” theme from last cycle, then? Also Tyra Mail now arrives on one of those electronic message signs that looks like the CNN crawl. It’s quite a treat to hear 14 girls read. Inane. Messages. Aloud. One. Word. At. A. Time, let me tell ya.

The girls took a tour of Manhattan, ending up in Times Square, where they did a Badgley/Mischka runway show. Miss J has her work cut out for her this season because most of them need a lot of work on their walks.

Fatima started making enemies early, beginning with Marvita, who is going to be my favorite, I believe.

There is no reward challenge, unless you count being ripped to shreds by Paulina Porizkova a reward. That’s what happened when the girls visited Elite for an assessment of their potential. Paulina tells them things like “You have bad skin,” “You look like a drag queen” and “You have a squished face.” Nice.

FatimaThe photo shoot involves homeless youth and the girls pose as homeless people and are surrounded by actual homeless kids dressed in couture. Fatima (left) and Marvita come to an understanding because they’ve both experienced homelessness in their pasts. And the feud seems to end there. Also, they both nail their photo.

At judges panel, Paulina is introduced as this season’s new judge, replacing Twiggy. That must fill the “drag queen” contestant with confidence! Little blond Kim announces that she just isn’t excited about modeling or fashion in general and so Tyra sends her home, just like that. Wow. Also Atalya (below, right) got sent home before I was even able to form an opinion about her. And we’re down to 12

Now you’re caught up.

Atalya_2Last night on “America’s Next Top Model”

Catfight of the week: Not satisfied with just one enemy, Fatima starts in on Allison, who’s not exactly a sweetheart either. They have an extended tussle over who has the bigger ass. Then Allison acts out their fight using Barbie dolls and racist remarks and loses any shred of respect I might have had for her. Also Allison can’t stop talking about how much modeling experience she has. I hate her.

Clairehair_3Reward challenge: Taxi to Wal-Mart where they get 5 minutes to shop in the CoverGirl aisle and make up their faces. Allison and Fatima are both just sure they have this one in the bag and I squeal with glee when the CoverGirl rep calls them both out as being the worst. Claire (at left, getting her makeover) rocks the challenge and her face will appear on Walmart.com’s CoverGirl page. Let’s hear it for product placement!

Makeovers: Woo hoo! I love this part. This year there are no tears, except for Fatima and that’s because she’s in pain from the weave, not because she hates the look. All the girls embrace their looks this cycle. Where’s the fun in that, show? There are lots of long, blond weaves and almost everyone gets a new color.

My favorites are Claire’s Susan Powter-style blond buzz cut, awkward Lauren’s blond weave with red highlights and Marvita's horse-mane do. Plus-size Whitney and Anya’s new blond locks don't work so well for me.

MarvitafotoPhoto shoot: The girls model Elle Macpherson intimates on a yacht in the harbor. Elle is the most nurturing supermodel they’ve ever had on this show, plus she doesn’t talk about herself constantly like Tyra and Paulina do, so that’s a plus. The most entertaining part of the photo shoot was Allison’s incessant bragging about how she “nailed it” and “kicked ass.” Yeah, not so much.

Laurenfoto_2 Judges panel: Told that she looks “soft and pretty,” Allison replies with “I know!” and seals her fate. Lauren (right) and Marvita’s (above) photos are best and the elimination (below) comes down to Dominique, who thinks she’s “high fashion” but keeps being told she’s “commercial,” and Allison who’s too snobby to be believed. Allison is out. Yay! Also out, I have a feeling, are the stylist who dressed Whitney and the colorist who did Dominique’s hair. Let’s just say Miss Tyra wasn’t happy with either of them.

Elimination_2Tyra’s most over-the-top moment: Probably the “Tyra vision” where she mimicked each contestant during the makeovers. But making Nigel grab her booty came close.

Early faves: Clair, Marvita, Whitney

Can’t wait to see them go: Anya, Katarzyna

— Kathy Lyford

February
21
'America's Next Top Model': Let's get on with it

The season preem of each cycle of “America’s Next Top Model” is a throwaway episode to me. We get to know some girls who don’t make it to the top 13 (or er, 14 this season); we don’t get to know girls who make it; and we aren’t made to care about any of them yet. Ultimately we end up with a collection of pretty girls who fill the same slots every year: the nice one, the mean one, the angry one, the awkward one, etc. Honestly, this show doesn’t really kick in for me until makeover week.

Antm_2The school theme they use throughout the episode wears thin quickly, never moreso than with Tyra’s over-the-top, tragic homecoming queen act. We get the usual walking lesson from Miss J (school marm is not her best look), then the girls pose for photos. And then there are some catfights and violent threats. Yawn.

Then we get to casting panel, probably the most interesting part of any episode one. The various hard-luck stories include abuse, single motherhood, boyfriend in Iraq, has tried out for "ANTM" eight times (um, move on?), never learned to give a lap dance, grew up Mormon, married at 17, and then one I hope to never hear again: female genital mutilation for the contestant from Somalia. Yikes. Also, one girl is drinking her own breast milk while separated from her child. Maybe having an infant at home is a reason to not participate in a reality TV contest? Just a suggestion.

A bunch of girls we don’t know are eliminated and then the ones who are left, whom we also don’t know, are photographed again. Let’s get on with naming the top 13, er 14, shall we? Oh but first we are entertained by the various criticisms thrown out by Miss Tyra and the J’s (sounds like a 60s band!): too old, bad voice, too perfect, pretty girl but not a model, doesn’t want it badly enough, bad walk, too ghetto, too sexy, sucks in her cheeks, plus size (but what a pretty face). Wow they’re harsh.

And here are the 14 lucky wannabe models.

Allison
Looks Like: Sarah Silverman
Role she fills: Sassy

Iman_2Fatima (right)
Looks Like: Iman
Role: Superiority complex

Katarzyna
Looks Like: Pick any Eastern bloc model. Let’s go with Paulina Porizkova
Role: Eastern European egomaniac

ColbyKimberly (left)
Looks Like: A little like Reese Witherspoon, but exactly like Ambyr Childers, who plays Colby Chandler on “All My Children”
Role: Raw talent

Stacy-Ann
Looks like: Kimberly Elise
Role: Pollyanna, will get along with everyone

Amis
Looks like: Lisa from Cycle 5
Role: Class clown with no class

Aimee
Looks like: Nobody and everybody
Role: Religious and conflicted

Claire
Looks like: Julia Stiles
Role: Single mom. Also global warming warrior

Whitney
Looks like: Carole Alt, with meat on her bones
Role: Plus size but confident

MarvitaMarvita (right)
Looks like: Chris Rock
Role: Angry, possibly violent

Lauren
Looks like: Martha Plimpton
Role: off beat and out of her element

Anya
Looks like: Gaby Reese
Role: Verbally challenged

Dominique
Looks like: Vanessa Williams
Role: Overconfident but probably insecure

Atalya
Looks like: A little like Joy Bryant
Role: Who knows? I don’t recall seeing her the whole episode. She must be the stealth contestant

— Kathy Lyford

September
13
Set your Tivo

The season begins in earnest next week with debuts of the following:

Kvill_6New shows…:
"K-Ville” (Monday at 9 on Fox, pictured at right)
“Back to You” (Wednesday at 8 on Fox)
“Kid Nation” (Wednesday at 8 on CBS)
“Gossip Girl” (Wednesday at 9 on CW)
“Kitchen Nightmares” (Wednesday at 9 on Fox)
“CW Now” and “Online Nation” (Sunday 7-8 on CW)

…and returning shows:
“Deal or No Deal” (Monday at 8 on NBC)
“Prison Break” (Monday at 8 Fox)
“Beauty and the Geek” (Tuesday at 8 on CW)
“America’s Next Top Model” (Wed. at 8 on CW)
“’Til Death” (Wed. at 8:30 on CBS)
“Survivor: China” (Thursday at 8 on CBS)
“Simpsons,” “King of the Hill,” “Family Guy” (Sunday  8-10 on Fox)
“Cold Case” (Sunday at 9 on CBS)
“Shark” (Sunday at 10 on CBS)

For a comprehensive schedule, by date or name, click here.

— KL


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