In case watching the screeching TV "lawyer" Nancy Grace dance wasn't mordant enough, viewers of Dancing with the Stars last night were treated to a view of her areola. "On the European version, that would be absolutely fine," host Tom Bergeron joked. Dammit this is America: NO NUDITY! Pouring alcohol down the gullets of soulless semi-nudes so that they may engage in adulterous coitus on an island literally constructed for inequity? Totally FCC-approved. more ›

Bill Clinton was this close to appearing on Dancing With The Stars, but ultimately decided that he was too busy to stoop as low as Bristol Palin or Donny Osmond. "I told them I didn't have the time to train for it," the former leader of the free world told Rachel Ray, "You know you actually go out there and you train, you really work at it. So I had to pass. But I think it's a hoot." Sources close to the show tell us that the producers were furious when Clinton declined, and decided to spite millions of eyeballs by picking Nancy Grace instead. more ›

The Reverend Al Sharpton is a busy guy—just look at his Twitter. He emphasized this point in a Tweet from earlier this morning, "I turned down DANCING WITH THE STARS, and people want to know why? I am busy, that's all. I am committed to NAN and our projects this year." Of course, he was more colorful when he explained this to TMZ. more ›

How do you follow-up on a storied, wildly successful 20-year career in professional football, one in which you racked up a gaggle of NFL records, won the Super Bowl, won multiple MVP awards, "retired" multiple times, and had yourself the occasional front page sex scandal? Well, there is only one second act in American lives: Dancing With The Stars. more ›

Dancing With the Stars ended its season last week, but it just won't go away. To wit, former contestant Margaret Cho recently went on her blog to discuss third-place-finisher Bristol Palin's reason for joining the show: "The only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it. Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly (in the circles that I heard it from) for not winning the election, and so she told Bristol she 'owed' it to her to do DWTS so that 'America would fall in love with her again' and make it possible for Sarah Palin to run in 2012 with America behind her all the way. Instead of being supposedly 'handicapped' by the presence of her teen mom daughter, now Bristol is going to be an 'asset' - a celebrity beloved for her dancing." more ›

Movie blogger Jeffrey Wells counts 12 films about America’s entanglements in the Middle East coming down the pipe this year. It’ll be some feat if even one of them matches the urgency, power and electricity of Iphigenia 2.0, Charle’s Mee’s self-described “sampling” of Euripides’s Iphigenia at Aulis. You may know the essential storyline: Agamemnon’s army is left stranded en route to the Trojan War when the goddess Artemis stifles the wind to punish him for hunting a sacred deer. Before Artemis will let the army sail on, Agamemnon must make it up to Her by personally slitting his daughter Iphigenia’s throat. It’s an unthinkable act that Agamemnon struggles to avoid, but his soldiers ain't having it. Death is certain for some of them; if the man who sends them to it can’t stomach that sacrifice himself, how dare he demand it of others? more ›

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DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi’s tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city. more ›