Cloris Leachman's Voting Bloc

As I mentioned in my last blog entry, I have become hooked on Dancing with the Stars.

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.

Lowest Common Denominator?

Last night I added my first widget to iGoogle. And the lucky widget was--Dancing with the Stars. Last April my fourteen year old niece visited from London and got me hooked on it. In fact, so hooked was I that during our recent trip to Wyoming and Montana we hiked during the day and watched Dancing with the Stars at night. Apologies to my husband--the long-suffering guy in the blue shirt, who has seen about as much as he wants of Cloris Leachman's body.

***Update*** My Dancing with the Stars widget had a very brief life on iGoogle. When I signed into iGoogle to print out my September roving calender, the Adobe Flash 9 add-on crashed the internet. How embarrassing it was to confess to tech support why this had happened. Lesson learned: what works on my computer at home may not be compatible with the system at work.