Dominique drones on about how she and Saleisha are born winners before retiring to the bedroom to sleep off her headache. Fatima, Whit, and Anya wait the requisite three seconds after she's left the room before bashing her to pieces. Anya has temporarily forgotten how much all the competition-bashing bothered her last week and she joins in on the fun. I'll obviously allow it considering how much Dominique's idiocy gets under my skin. Well. The producers have kept us in the dark on an important little secret - Dominique's a big, fat, pig. And yes, I use the term "important" loosely because I'm pretty certain an appetite are lack thereof isn't enough to keep you from the Top Model crown so long as you still have a banging body in your shots. Whit however is profoundly disturbed that Dominique "eats worse than I do!" But horror of horrors, the biggest crime here is that she's stealing Whit's food! Clearly, Dom's a fool if she tries get between Whit and her banana bread or potato latkes that we know she's terribly fond of.
ME WANT FOOD!
Well, cue another soliloquy from Dominique about how she's in it to win it and how in her own esteemed opinion, she's the most improved of the girls. Oh, doll, did anyone ever explain the difference between MIP and MVP to you? I was voted most improved on my high school's soccer team but that certainly doesn't mean they would have wallowed helplessly if I didn't show for a game. This show isn't called America's Most Improved Model... although AMIM would be a fun acronym.
For the next challenge, the girls roll up to a park that's a few blocks from my apartment. Excuse me while I curse myself for not being superintuitive enough to have figured this out while they were filming last winter. You know Mr. Jay probably wears enough cologne that you could smell him from kilometers away.
Anywho, they happen upon Paulina, frolicking through a meadow with a midget. The midget is actually a photographer named Francesco and he's here to teach the girls what goes on behind the camera. According to Paulina, good models must know what is happening on the other side of the lens to be at their most successful. I can't believe it, a challenge that is actually useful! Also, is Francesco legitimately a fashion photographer? Because he's rocking a long sweater coat not unlike the ones that were popular way back during my sophomore year of high school. So apparently bad American fashion is just like bad American pop music: they both head to Europe to die.
Fall into the Gap!
There's lots of playtime as the girls boss each other around and pretend to shoot each other (obviously with cameras, not guns). To introduce the actual challenge, Paulina brings out Ann Shoket, EIC from Seventeen. The peanut gallery titters with excitement. Well, semi-enthusiastic excitement at least.
The challenge goes a little something like this: Each girl will have five minutes to photograph Paulina. They will then be graded on how well they work with P-Dubs (that's right, I'm bringing it back) as well as how good their photographs turn out. This week's prize is an extra 50 frames at the next shoot. Which, like, cool and all, but I'll take Anya's $10,000 check or Claire's Bora Bora trip thankyouverymuch.
Fatima's up first and very calmly directs Paulina into a variety of poses. Dominique coerces Paulina into a lot of awkward positions including propping her leg up onto a high wall. Dominique gives no worthwhile direction, instead telling P-Dubs, "Have fun! Whatever you feel like you want to flow and do, I want you to do that!" Paulina cries foul and says that she doesn't have a good idea of Dominique's direction as a photographer. In Dominique's defense, the girls are coming off of a shoot with Tyra whose completely nonsensical vision was about whored up Renaissance ladies on the Sunset Strip. Now, won't you excuse me for a moment while I go pick my own jaw up off the floor because I just defended Dominique?
Whitney incorporates the foliage in the background into her shots. Even Dominique confesses that Whitney seems to be doing a very professional job of communicating. Paulina liked that Whit didn't hesitate. Yay, Whit! Anya has all sorts of crazy ideas like throwing a pile of leaves in the air and actually tells Paulina to check out some leaves on a plant "like you're curious." Anya, babe, I'm pretty sure even Curious George wouldn't be interested in some half-dead leaves on some veiny old plants. Paulina thinks that Anya needs to narrow her focus.
"I will narrow my gaze at you in an attempt to get you to narrow your crazy."
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Comments (13)
as appalled as I am of the fact that Dominique is still in the competition, i can't help but feel like they didn't pick a good picture of Dom just so they can have a reason to kick her off?
Also, can Cover Girl hire better make-up artist coz Saleshia looks HORRID in those commercials she does. She looked 10x better when she was on the show and Cover Girl didn't do her make-up. Looks like a drag queen.
1 of 13 | Posted by chibby | Posted on May 10, 2008 6:24 PM
I'm rooting for Fatima and Anya. Anya definately deserves it the most since she hasn't taken a crappy shot and has won so many challenges. But all the same, her speech is horrendous. Fatima is gorgeous and exotic, but her photos aren't the greatest. She seems to either be really good, or really horrible. I thought the judges went easy on her this week... her shoot was just awful and her picture was "pretty" but totally had nothing to do with being caught by the paps.
Whitney? I don't know. We saw from her last commercial that she can't act worth a crap. I think she's has a snotty attitude, and her pictures I'd put at the same level as Fatima. I'd say out of the 3 she's the only one I'd root against.
And good riddance to Dominique! She made it wayyy too far.
2 of 13 | Posted by shia0bundan | Posted on May 10, 2008 6:57 PM
They definitely wear the same clothese in the off camera interviews. I noticed that in Cycle 8 when Renee always wore that one brown shirt with the lacey thing at the top. She wore it all the time.
I didn't like Dominiuqe but I thought she made a pretty graceful exit (surprisingly). Then in watching the marathon rerun this weekend, she didn't seem so bad.
3 of 13 | Posted by KermitGirl_22 | Posted on May 11, 2008 9:06 AM
i can't stand whitney! not since C5 Nicole have i loathed a contestant so much. at least she Nicole took good pictures. this bitch always got her mouth open. since i hate her so much, this of course means whitney will win. sad panda :(
4 of 13 | Posted by Niecy | Posted on May 11, 2008 11:13 AM
I think I might have a little girl crush on Paulina - because she's the only judge (except sometimes Nigel and Miss Jay) that actually tells it like it is. The rest of them let their love for particular contestants get in the way of their judgement. Bloody annoying.
I am rooting for an Anya/Whitney final 2, Fatima can just burn.
Also, could it be that Anya has a speech impediment? Because my mother was watching with me(and she hasn't seen any of the episodes yet)and after Anya did one of her confessionals, I pointed out her atrocious accent and my mom, being a speech pathologist, said that she was pretty sure that Anya actually had some sort of speech problem, as opposed to just a stupid accent. Hmm...I wonder if that's why the judges haven't brought it up, as opposed to Danielle's, which they did ALL.THE.TIME.
But then, what's Jaslene's excuse?
5 of 13 | Posted by georgiababe | Posted on May 12, 2008 1:59 AM
speaking of nicole. i have a nicole spotting. i spotted her modeling clothes on lauren conrad's, from the hills, website. ugh her clothes are horrible.
who says that these girls don't get work after antm?
6 of 13 | Posted by reckless_saturn_11 | Posted on May 12, 2008 8:03 AM
I fucking hate Fatima and her goddamn obviously fake crying! Every episode she forces up a few tears, scrunching her face up like she's trying to fart. Seriously, if there's someone who's fake in the bunch, it's Fatima!
I actually felt kinda bad for Dominique this episode - it just seems a little messed up that they'd let a girl who obviously isn't a model get this far. All the other girls know she isn't competition, so why let her get to the top four?
7 of 13 | Posted by VegasDarling | Posted on May 12, 2008 8:29 AM
I agree that Anya's brows looked scary in color, but the way that the picture was shot, sort of far away, and in black and white, they kinda had to do that to make them show up. Otherwise it might have looked like she didn't have any.
Great recap btw :)!!
8 of 13 | Posted by LNNC92 | Posted on May 12, 2008 10:54 AM
I don't understand Anya's face. She looks GREAT when she's sitting around the kitchen (with no makeup?) chopping it up with the other girls. But then when they put makeup on her for photo shoots, it's AAAAAHHHHH!
Fatima has a beautiful face, kinda weird body proportions. She's two steps forward 1.5 steps back on photo shoots.
Whitney's gotta pretty face, but looks too Anna Nicole-ish to me to be ANTM. She should be Lane Bryant's Next Top Model. I like her body, though. Curvy but not flabby or wide.
Bye bye, Dominique! No more annoying "I am wonderful" monologues from you.
As much as she annoys me, Anya's win will be stolen by Fatima - Tyra's favorite.
9 of 13 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on May 12, 2008 11:26 AM
I'm stickin w Fat to pull this one out, once again, she clearly had the cover girl look, with Whit pulling a good alternative. I do think Whit has the best voice over, and I'd love to see thinking outside the box and a CG campaign with a Plus size model, with the Queen Latifah tie in, maybe, just maybe it could happen. I hope they've thought ahead and had whoever's line they're modeling for the end walk keep some looks in mind for Whit.
Anya may deserve it tho, I agree, she's sweet and won challenges, and when have they let diction stand in the way, they don't even seem to harp on it as much as they have in the past. With some vocal coaching I think Anya could have a lovely accent, but it does sound nasaly and lispy a bit.
Really enjoying the recaps and feedback here!!! I could see the glaze happening w Dom's belief speech, she should have entered the AI song contest, "I have all this, I just have to believe I have it, and I have to convince others I have it, damn it! I do have it!!!"
Cover Man, bwa ha ha!!! Does anyone else have to rew to catch the Mizz Jay bon mots? He loves to growl "dragaliscous" or something . . . .
10 of 13 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on May 12, 2008 12:41 PM
I am not really a whiteney fan, but I have a feeling that she is going to win just because she is plus-size and they want a plus-size girl. I think anya definitely deserves the win the most though.
11 of 13 | Posted by kelseym13 | Posted on May 12, 2008 4:40 PM
WHY WHY does Tyra have to act so weird and try all these weird accents...just talk normal for GAWDs sake!
Fatima is too skinny...on a casting the designer even said that to her....and Whitney is a size 10 which in REAL life is not plus-size (Lane Bryant starts at a 14 or something)....I think Whitney will win. Oh, and Dominiques exit interview was so humble and nice, I was like "who is that?"
12 of 13 | Posted by melpladgett | Posted on May 14, 2008 5:55 AM
just wanted to note that anya does NOT have a speech impediment -- it's just that crazy hawaiian accent! haven't you heard hawaiians talk before?? holy crap! i know a lot of them and they all talk with that accent to varying degrees. i'd says hers is one of the worst i've heard, but not an impediment.
btw, that reminds me of my friend who was born in the UK. when she moved to a small town in the mid-west in elementary school she had a british accent and they thought it was a speech impediment. they made her get speech therapy. yeah.
13 of 13 | Posted by nyrlieht | Posted on May 14, 2008 8:45 PM