The News Review:
- Michael Smuin 68 Dancer and Eclectic Choreographer Dies
- I am affable: Li Lin
- Heather Mills sent packing on ‘Dancing’
Michael Smuin 68 Dancer and Eclectic Choreographer Dies
New York Times – Apr 25, 2007
Smuin had had a serious heart attack in 1992. A dance prodigy he first performed with the San Francisco Ballet. He then danced and choreographed for… Smuin’s ability to connect with audiences set him apart. His use of elements from today’s culture like break-dancing divided critics but often attracted those unfamiliar with ballet. In a busy career he found time to choreograph Broadway shows and movies not to mention circuses and commercials. He made dances for the Washington Ballet Pacific Northwest Ballet and.
I am affable: Li Lin
Channel News Asia – Apr 25, 2007
No stranger to the stage the 34-year-old won a dance scholarship to the United Kingdom at age 16 where she studied ballet and classical dance before returning home to pioneer the introduction of Pilates a method of body conditioning and to help found a number of dance groups. Li Lin first shot to stardom on Channel 5′s Triple Nine where she was touted as the next Zoe Tay and later crossed over to Channel 8 where she appeared on programmes such as Rising Expectations and Wok of Life 2. In 2004 she married fellow actor Allan Wu now the host of AXN’s The Amazing Race Asia with whom she has a two-year-old daughter Sage Cadence and a one-year-old son Jonas. Ahead of The Dance Floor finals on Sunday today spoke to Li Lin about the show her soon-to-be-released film The Leap Years and what she thinks of the competition to succeed Zoe Tay as the Caldecott Queen. 1 You’ve been a judge on The Dance Floor since the start… 9 So you’re not all that concerned with who succeeds Zoe as the Queen of Caldecott Hill?I was never really born into that kind of bull**** because all of it is bull**** generated by God knows who. Singaporeans are an anomaly in that they like the new faces and yet they undermine the established actors. Anywhere else they’ll treasure their older actors or their established actors they don’t have to be old and the new ones simply have to break through. And I think here some of the actors who have held their place have held it for a reason. So I think it would be a mistake if any of our more established actors or actresses try to act young or try to do things to make it appear as if they’re newbies. It’s just silly because they worked hard for all these years to reach the stage where they are so they should just be very proud. 10 You’ve earned a reputation for your outspokenness and for being hard to figure out.
Heather Mills sent packing on ‘Dancing’
MSNBC – Apr 25, 2007
Whatever one thinks of Stone it?s unlikely that very many people listen to her music and think to themselves that what it needs is more ballroom dancing. The professional dancers performing in two couples put on a weird show in which prop hats seemed to provide the entire theme of the dance. In fact without the eternal struggle of ?you wear the hat; no I wear the hat? it wasn?t clear what the point of the dance would really have been. When Stone was through the audience comment segment arrived. It featured some nice remarks from George Wendt who was Norm to John Ratzenberger?s Cliff for so many years on ?… Because the show usually drops one semi-surprise into this first pair the fact that there was no surprise hinted that there wasn?t one to give and that the bottom two would be the totally obvious: John and partner Edyta Sliwinska and Heather Mills and Jonathan Roberts. A performance by the cast of ?Dreamgirls? while it at least opened with some dancing seemed oddly cluttered and stilted and the lip-synching by the performers was utterly disconcerting. The reason for including the number at all was difficult to figure until the commercial break when we learned that the movie is arriving on DVD. And you thought someone just liked ?Dreamgirls? a lot.