Fatima thinks she's got a huge advantage with the extra frames she has on her shot. Nigel literally walks her through the shoot and shows her all sorts of ways she could play it. My favorite Nigel walk is the cute little "sultry" trot that he does. Jay chimes in and tells her the importance of being in motion and looking like she's been caught. Fatima sort of sways around the actor and even turns her back to the camera! Jay's peeved off the charts. "Hey Fatima," he shouts to her, "I just want to remind you, you do get 50 extra frames. Yeah, we might need those." Ooooo, bruciatura! Translation: Burn! I like me some feisty handbag Jay!
Before she shoots the extra frames, Jay drags Fatima over to glance at the film and she admits that they're kinda bad. I'm thinking Jay might have a slightly more expressive word to use than "kinda." Round two is equally abysmal with Nigel announcing that he's bored stiff. In an effort to get some kind of emotion out of Fatima, Jay tells her to get in a fight with the actor-boyfriend and ahhh! Ahhh!! The stupid snarl face IS BACK. Please oh please oh pretty please let the judges realize this already!
It's really a coin toss as to who's a better Grimace.
Whitney wants to take a pretty picture so she decides to make a coy little "oh" face in every shot. Nigel tells her she's being too posey and she relaxes a bit. Jay tells her to interact more with the boy toy and that seems to bring out some better shots.
Dominique does a lot of booty tooching (or whatever it was that Tyra called it) and Jay looks like he's seen a ghost of trannies past. Nigel makes fun of her and Jay looks bored. Since Jay was pretty vocal about everyone sucking across the board, all the girls are nervous for panel and I've gotta admit that the editors did their job this week because at this point, it seems like a toss up.
At panel, Ann of Seventeen is this week's guest judge. As everyone checks out Anya's best shot, Tyra immediately brings up how her picture last week was the best of Anya so far in the competition. Thanks for bringing it back to you once again Tyra! You never disappoint.
"Anything you can do, I can do better! I can't hear you Jay! Back me up!"
Anya's shot:
Tyra thinks that Nigel's picture captures her real beauty. Nigel already had Anya's angles worked out from the previous nudie shoot. Still, Nigel thinks that Anya lucked into the picture because she happened to be surprised on the shoot, not because she was in control of it. Paulina revisits the energy that Anya brought to the shoots that she did with all the girls, but damn Paulina, maybe you should focus on your own girls for a minute! Let those puppies breathe!
Tyra thinks that Whitney looks gorgeous but doesn't look surprised. Paulina believes that this is the first picture that does justice to Whitney's beauty. Nigel notes that Whitney had a hard time getting into character. Tyra feels that Whitney should have played more helpless since the actor seemed so angry at the paparazzo and then imitates Whitney by doing her best Blue Steel. Hoolia says, okay, seriously, Whit's look isn't even close to anything Zoolander and while she doesn't look particularly shocked, she certainly looks more surprised than all of the other girls, except maybe Anya.
More fashion criticism for Dominique since she continually seems to wear the long tunic with tights combo. Tyra tells her to pull at her hips but Dom thinks this is a game of Tyra Says and proceeds to pull at every part of the garment except at her hips - Tyra didn't say! Nigel says that the shot is the softest one of the bunch while Mizz Jay gasps with horror. Paulina says what's on everyone's mind and calls a spade a spade. Dominique looks quite tranny and can't fight it. Tyra sympathizes because her face can take a lot of makeup so she frequently gets done up like Tyrone. Now there's something I would have liked to see in the recap show. But unlike Dominique, Tyra's got the know-how to figure out how to relax her facial features to counteract the heavy makeup. She instructs Dominique to do two poses - one hard and one soft. Dominique gets it right, but Hoolia thinks it's too little, too late.
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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