
Oct 26 - By Linda Holmes, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The second half of the "Dancing With The Stars" season is starting with nine celebrities still in the running, but they'll vanish in a hurry with two straight double eliminations (meaning that almost half the group will go this week or next). Monday night, the remaining couples danced their individual dances — either the jitterbug or the waltz — and then participated in a group mambo.

Sep 23 - By Linda Holmes, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
"Dancing With the Stars" ends its first week of the season by sending one male and one female dancer home. The show also paid tribute to Patrick Swayze.

Sep 22 - By Linda Holmes, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Macy Gray is the worst dancer by far, but often, the first boots are doled out to the bad and boring over the even worse but marginally interesting on "Dancing With the Stars."

Aug 17 - By David Germain, AP Movie Writer
Christoph Waltz has mastered Quentin Tarantino's linguistic legerdemain in four languages.

Jun 4 - By John Rogers, Associated Press Writer
It's enough to make any serious polka fan shove his plate of sausage aside, fling his lederhosen in the closet and go out and shed a few tears in his beer.

May 4 - By Linda Holmes, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
This week marked the first episode of “Dancing With The Stars” where each couple would perform two individual dances, and in case you feared that it would be overly action-packed, that panic would have been snuffed out quickly with the opening filler number introducing viewers to … the concept of ballroom dancing.

Apr 7 - By Linda Holmes, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
"Dancing With the Stars" first freed Shawn Johnson and Lil’ Kim from danger, then Gilles Marini, and then it pulled the early shocker — Tom Bergeron announced that low-scoring Steve-O was safe. Gulping hard at this news? Ty Murray, David Alan Grier, and Chuck Wicks, the three most obvious underperformers (who weren’t NFL stars like Lawrence Taylor) who might logically be at risk. The show next freed Chuck and Melissa Rycroft, further frightening Ty and David and their fans. Surprisingly, though, Ty was declared safe, so the NFL magic may not be working that well in Lawrence’s case — he was left to compete against David in the dance-off.

Apr 6 - By Linda Holmes, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Last week’s "Dancing With the Stars" double elimination of Holly Madison and Steve Wozniak efficiently continued the weeding out of the truly weak competitors, but now the mediocre dancers have less and less cover. Monday night, few of them did anything to change their positions. In fact, the only person to improve more than one point from last week was … Steve-O.

Apr 28 - By NBC Nightly News
Monday was mix-up night on “Dancing with the Stars,” as each celebrity hoofer took on two very different routines. The first round of major moves was strictly ballroom, and Latin numbers finished out the night. But the dances weren’t the only drastic differences.

Apr 21 - By NBC Nightly News
It was ballroom’s greatest hits Monday on “Dancing with the Stars,” as the celebs took on dances previously seen this season. While each routine was new to the individual stars, they all made for a dance floor retrospective with the return of the foxtrot, rumba, Viennese waltz, mambo, jive and cha-cha-cha.

Nov 12 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
Italian researchers have come up with a novel way for cardiac rehabilitation patients to exercise their damaged hearts without having to squeeze into spandex or gyrate in a gym: waltzing.