DWTS: Bolton feels humiliated

Aww.

September 29, 2010 at 4:03PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
In this publicity image released by ABC, Michael Bolton, right, and his partner Chelsie Hightower perform on the celebrity dance competition series "Dancing with the Stars," Monday, Sept. 27, 2010 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/ABC, Adam Larkey)
(AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

I'm going to have to start watching this show. I thought it was about dancing. Turns out it's about preening egoists getting told they're substandard for the first time since they started making lots of money, and everyone started telling them they were demigods. A round-up:

Inappropriate. Grown men don't use that word to describe someone criticizing their dancing. But his partner agreed:

Perhaps it came from a reasoned critical evaluation of inadequate jive? Or an honest, heartsick cri de coeur lamenting the deep insult the man had just paid to jive? No idea. But the idea of taking a nail-studded 2 X 4 to the china pinatas of celebrity egos does sound like a good idea for a show, doesn't it? There's got to be something Simon Cowell simply cannot do well, for example. People would tune in to watch someone yell at him while he tries to change the oil in his car and tries to keep his T-shirt clean. Think R. Lee Ermey, making Simon cry. History channel, or TLC? Either's fine.

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