Hear no evil?

Original post: February 27, 2008

If any of you happened to watch the Academy Awards on Sunday night, you might've gotten the first glimpse of the list of celebrities that are scheduled to appear on the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars. During one of the commercial breaks, they showed us such dancing hopefuls as Adam Corrolla, Shannon Elizabeth, and Marlee Matlin.

Wait a second. Marlee Matlin?! Why the fuck is she on there? She's deaf. She can't hear the music. How can someone possibly move their body in time to something they can't hear? Unless, they treat her like a snake, and turn the bass way up so she can feel the beat in the vibrations on the floor.

Do the producers of this show have an addendum to the contract that says they need someone with a handicap in each season, as part of some equal opportunity thing? We all remember when they had Heather Mills-McCartney and her peg-leg. I'll give her props (pun intended) though. In all fairness, she could fucking dance, stump and all. But at least she could hear the Goddamn music.

I wish I was in the room when they were thinking this one out.