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Kirstie Alley new modern dance version of Cinderella story?
[Apr. 12]
Actress Kirstie Alley is having a little trouble on Dancing With The Stars, but she’s been recovering nicely, continuing to earn respectable scores from the judges. Last week, Maksim Chmerkovskiy had a fall during the Rumba to the tune of Over the Rainbow, taking Kirstie Alley down with him, but they recovered. Kirstie Alley joked that she’d wind up having a wardrobe malfunction, which wound up happening. During this week’s Waltz, the Cheers and Who’s Talking Now actress lost a shoe.
While Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy make it seem almost effortless to recover from some bizarre mishaps the last couple of weeks, it starts to make one wonder if Kirstie Alley is just jinxed this season on Dancing with the Stars. Really. The 60-year-old actress and subject of innumerable jibes at her up-and-down issues with weight started off the show with incredible grace.
But like Cinderella, it seems Kirstie Alley, no matter how amazing and talented, can’t seem to get away from the curse on her. If it’s not fat actress jokes, which she brushes off, willing even to laugh at herself, then it’s a fall (for which Maksim Chmerkovskiy takes complete responsibility) or a lost shoe. Poor Cinderella.
But her prince, Maksim, seems there, ready to sweep her off her feet over and over, and the couple has proved remarkably resilient to any trouble that comes their way. It would be a real shame to lose a vote to something so simple, but given the simple grace with which she accepted the mishap (except for lobbing the F-bomb in an after-show interview) it’s hard to believe anyone would fault the couple for the slip.
There are countless stories of mishap and mistreatment, and the success that has followed the turmoil, by way of grace and kindness and perseverance. These all are the elements that make up a Cinderella story. Not all have the Cinderella character whisked away by a prince. For instance, there is the Russian tale Baba Yaga, in which the daughter ultimately lives happily with the father after being mistreated by a step-mother and wicked aunt (Baba Yaga).
Kirstie Alley may be that new American Cinderella this season on Dancing with the Stars, suffering torture from bad luck and her evil step-father Len.
Hopefully she will find the success she deserves, though, as all Americans need a new urban legend success to become their hero.
Will Maksim and Kirstie be able to beat out aggressive competition like Mark Ballas and Chelsea Kane — who did a magical contemporary Waltz to the Harry Potter music theme that same lost glass slipper on the dance floor dancing shoe freak show evening? Can the celebrity couple rise to fame over her hard work, very real deal raw persona, and be able to keep Romeo the Paso Doble king and Ralph Macchio (who danced that night with Karina Smirnoff AS Romeo to the theme song from Romeo & Juliet) at bay?
All we know for sure at this stage in the game is that Kirstie Alley and her dance pro Maksim have much better chemistry than anyone could have hoped to ever see, that both are working hard to turn this pumpkin into a carriage, and that we hope that when the Mirror Ball trophy makes its appearance at the bewitching hour, that Kirstie Alley — Cinderella or not — has no soot left on her face and is left standing proud in her high heels as one of the final three.
Cinderella stories worldwide: