Comments on: So, do you think Katie Holmes can dance?

By: Little Miss Moi

Little Miss Moi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:37:35 +0000

Dear Mia. Firstly, no, I don’t think she can dance. Dancing with the stars celebs can dance better than that, and she’s a professional performer (she has claimed in interviews that her first love was sing and dance, before she turned to acting). And she’s been taking singing and dance lessons for almost a year now.

Secondly, I believe she committed the ultimate entertainment sin of performing a pre-recorded piece (which took an entire day or perhaps two to film, was all over gossip websites at the time). This means her performance was chopped, changed and perfected both during recording and in the editing suite. And it still didn’t look like she could dance. Also, she was appearing on a show that prides live performance above all, and the contestants themselves have to make it or break it in front of critical judges and a live audience. I think it’s insulting that she did a pre-recorded piece.

Thirdly, apparently the website for the charity she’s promoting here (which she is a co-founder of) does not conform to the legal standards set by the US Tax folks, and it isn’t even registered as a non-profit in the US. Which leads me to think that it is associated with, and that the money will be administered by, the Church of Scientology. Which is BAD NEWS.

So. Yeah. Not a winner for me.

By: toby

toby — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:29:25 +0000

Blah…

By: Renee Gilbert

Renee Gilbert — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:04:13 +0000

I remembered this from the old days of Dawson’s! More evidence of a singing “superstar”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knpRITAQJRA&feature=related

By: Renee Gilbert

Renee Gilbert — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:04:13 +0000

I remembered this from the old days of Dawson’s! More evidence of a singing “superstar”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knpRITAQJRA&feature=related

By: Renee Gilbert

Renee Gilbert — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:04:13 +0000

I remembered this from the old days of Dawson’s! More evidence of a singing “superstar”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knpRITAQJRA&feature=related

By: Aprilk

Aprilk — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:57:06 +0000

Oh good grief – seriously – do we have to give someone a hard time for doing things well, not excellently??? Yes, she can sing, about as well as many sucessful singers out there, hell she can high kick and not fall over backwards in heels, but yes as has been previously stated she was the entertainment in a break in the show – thats all she had to be intertaining and informative about the scholarship fund so that young americans watching the show would know about it – and she did that.
i love her acting – always have always will, she cansing as well as many ‘starlets’ can, her voice certainly isn’t – what was it – grating?
and if i looked that good in fishnets and heels i would be a happy mum indeed
why do we need to bring people down because they are famous or marry the ‘wrong’ person – millions of people do that every day and aren’t condemmned…sorry i get a bit over this Katie is Tom type stuff- she isn’t.

By: Martina

Martina — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:59:34 +0000

Good on Katie for having a go, even if it was out of her comfort zone. It was entertaining and she looks fantastic. She gave up her time and appearance fee for the charity, which is a lot more than most of these young actors do these days. And just because people don’t agree with her husband’s religious beliefs, I think it’s pretty unfair to take it out on her

By: wollywally

wollywally — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:31:00 +0000

Great song, great dance, great legs! good on her anybody that gives her time and talent for charity has my approval, love to all ooxx

By: caron

caron — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:08:36 +0000

wow, i think she was awesome!

i read so much panning of this before i actually watched the clip, i think i fell prey to hyped-down rather than up.

there has been a lot of criticism about how long she trained to do this “just to do a Britney at the VMAs”, but she isn’t Britney! She had no dancing background at all! and I thought all her moves were sharp and on point (maybe fairer to compare with dancing with the stars rather than the SYTYCD contestants).

If you look up Judy Garland’s original on YouTube, it is actually an almost move-by-move copy choreographically. Maybe they should have intro-ed it that way?

She definitely lip-synched, but it was to her own voice, which has improved a thousand fold since that awful version of “on my own” she sang in Dawson’s Creek – remember that??

By: Lawless

Lawless — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:26:46 +0000

Yeah she can move, but I think that should’ve been sexy.. and even with her legs she didn’t make it sexy.
Still, she can certainly dance better than I can