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"Dancing with the Stars:" The opener review...
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Tom DeLay? Oy vey.
You had to wait until, oh, 9:25 to watch the former leader of the House and one of the most powerful Republicans in the country dance on one of TV's biggest hits.
The wait was worth it. Though maybe not in the way you might think.
Dancing - I use the word callously here - the cha-cha-cha on the 9th season premiere of "Dancing with the Stars," DeLay shook some booty, played air guitar, slid across the dance floor, and otherwise made 17 or so million viewers wonder, "is this the most bizarre dream I've ever had?"
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DeLay - Texas Republican elected to the House in '84 and House Majority Leader from '03 to '5 before a storm of legal problems forced him out of the position - is perhaps the most unusual dancer on "DWTS," ever. And that includes Cloris Leachman, by the way.
Judge Carrie Ann Inaba noted of his performance, almost breathlessly, "that was surreal."
"You are crazier than Sarah Palin," observed Bruno Tonioli.
"Some parts were magic, some parts were tragic," explained Len Goodman.
(Umm, Len: which parts specifically were "magic?" We know the "tragic" ones.) His total score was 16; no, it was not good.
In fact, the whole thing was strange - terribly, terribly strange. "The one thing I wasn't prepared for in dancing was getting in touch with my feminine side," said DeLay. That was strange, too.
He wasn't alone in the "strangeness" category last night; Chuck Liddell, Ultimate Fighting Champ and almost certainly the scariest person to ever dance on "DWTS," was also on the show. He's known as the Iceman. DeLay was known as the Hammer, in tribute to a political style over two decades that was Chuck Liddell-esque.
Hammer and Ice? It was not nice.
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