TV Watch By Michele Stueven and Monica Rizzo 05/21/2014 at 06:55 PM EDT Meryl Davis and Maksim Chmerkovskiy Adam Taylor/ABC There's no denying that Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Olympic gold medal ice dancer Meryl Davis have chemistry on the dance floor. All season long the Dancing With the Stars duo wowed the show's judges and viewers with one stellar performance after another. As in-step as they are on the dance floor, it's their off-the-dance-floor connection that has folks wondering, "Are they or aren't they?" Or, in the case of DWTS judge Carrie Ann Inaba, who declared after the couple's emotional and soulful freestyle routine Monday night, "I think the two of you should get married." That seems to be the general consensus among fans and colleagues, who experienced a gentler, kinder and more playful Chmerkovskiy this season. And humbler. "Meryl is everything. I tried as hard as I have ever tried and she just gave me more ability," Chmerkovskiy told PEOPLE moments after he and Davis won the season 18 mirror ball trophy Tuesday. "Had I won in the first seasons or any other season it wouldn't have been as special as this. Meryl is the strongest person I've ever met." … Continue reading →

Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Meryl Davis Dancing with the StarschampMeryl Davisknows the importance of chemistry. In fact, she thinks the romantic energy between her and partnerMaks Chmerkovskiywas certainly a key to her claiming the Mirrorball trophy. "We definitely have chemistry on the dance floor and that plays a really big part," Davis tells TVGuide.com. "As an ice dancer, I'm a performer of a different kind and I certainly understand how important it is. I think the friendship we have and the relationship we built through the course of the show definitely helped us establish it on the dance floor as well." Photos: The sexiest costumes from Season 18 of Dancing with the Stars When Davis wasn't being hounded about her love life, she was working to step outside of her comfort zone, unlearn techniques she mastered on the ice and prove that just because she's an Olympic gold medalist she didn't have the competition in the bag. Find out which dances gave her trouble, what surprised her most about the show, her first stop when she gets back home to Michigan and more! As you got closer to the end, did you put extra pressure on yourself to win it for Maks … Continue reading →

I consider myself a bit of a chemist. Not in the scientific sense, of course. I'm way too stupid for that. The chemistry I specialise in is on-screen chemistry between actors. I'm really good at judging its potency, and also determining the whys and wherefores of it. I'm the only male Twilight fan in existence. That must count for something! Chemistry can be boiled down to friskiness. Does the couple look like they're having fun together? Can you imagine them having even more fun in private? The couples that work are those who seem as if they're sharing a private joke that the rest of the world will never get. Exhibit A: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. Read the rest here: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore: Goofs eternal … Continue reading →

Paris Gray, inspirational humorist. WSB-TV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Intelligence and humor have one thing in common: They can both be very dangerous to our society. They can disrupt the careful veneers of fashion, habit, and tradition and make them seem foolish and desperately thin. Please consider, then, the intelligent humor of Paris Gray. This Georgia teen is terribly good at science. When it came to entering a quote in her yearbook, not for her some mundane ra-ra-ra. Instead: "When the going gets tough, just remember to Barium, Carbon, Potassium, Thorium, Astatine, Arsenic, Sulfur, Uranium, Phosphorus." Did anyone get it at first? Possibly not. But then someone with knowledge of the periodic table realized that if you take the elements of these elements as presented in the periodic table, you get "Back That Ass Up." Intellectual humor. WSB-TV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Gray says that for her humorous message, an assistant principal banned her from participating in a senior walk. "It just completely destroyed me, and my mom's been telling me don't let it ruin my happiness, but it's like really taking a big toll," she told WSB-TV. Worse, she was told she couldn't make the inspirational graduation speech she … Continue reading →