As in politics, the best dancers among the "stars" do not always win the voters' hearts. This season, 82 year old Cloris Leachman, despite low scores awarded her by the judges, has outlasted at least two technically better dancers with the help of a voting bloc of appreciative fans.
I am not hooked enough to waste money actually voting for the dancers. (Nor do I know how to do so. I obviously need a Web 2.0 texting lesson on my Go phone.) I would be fascinated to know the demographics of her electorate. Are they all golden oldies? Or are they simply people who like her guts, enjoy her wit, and think that the program would be a poorer thing without her? After all, Leachman is the closest thing to a "star" that I've seen on the show. (This is making a distinction between famous people, like athletes, and stars, who are famous performers.) I know that Cloris is going to be voted off the island at some point, but wouldn't it be fun to see her win the mirror ball. In the meantime, I may try to get my 82 year old mother hooked.
3 comments:
Glad you mentioned it on your blog. I've been a fan for a couple of years now. Glad to know you are too. It's something to look forward to in spring and fall, especially when my husband is into football and soccer.
I loved her in the Last Picture Show.
Silverlining, it's good to know that someone else has my guilty pleasure. I spent most of my young life taking ballet lessons and twirling around the basement on my toes, but I never had to do it in two inch heels.
And I too loved her as Ruth Popper, Cameron. I have been a lifelong Larry McMurtry fan and I regret to say that in the last book I read Ruth Popper finally died, at an older age than Cloris Leachman.
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