Earmuff your horses. Cloris Leachman is checking into the hospital at the heart of HawthoRNe, TNT's new medical drama premiering Tuesday, June 16, and starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan.
Apparently still enjoying some heat from her recent Dancing with the Stars run, Leachman will play Mrs. Lachman (heh), a cantankerous patient who terrorizes the nurses — Pinkett Smith's Chief Nurse Christina Hawthorne included — by, for example, throwing perfectly good Jell-O at them.
Speaking of Jell-O ... former Cosby kid ...
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It was another astonishing Cloris Leachman moment. When the cameras stopped rolling on Tuesday night, pro Derek Hough pulled Leachman into his arms and took her for a breathtaking spin around the floor. "Wasn't that brilliant?" Michael "Lord Of The Dance" Flatley asked after the show. "He ran right out, the first one, gave her a kiss and took her for a spin. World-class. Hats off to Derek."
The orchestra kept playing and the crowd gasped as they picked up speed — perhaps wondering why Cloris ...
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It doesn't seem to matter that Cloris Leachman gets a standing ovation from the studio audience every time she hits the dance floor. Or that she wasn't even in the bottom two last week. Judge Bruno Tonioli wants her out. Read why, and see who agrees with him, after the jump...
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After "mastering" the salsa on Dancing with the Stars, we ask: Is there anything Cloris Leachman can't do? See what the feisty octogenarian is up to next, and what Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino have to do with it...
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On Monday night's Dancing with the Stars, Oscar-winner Cloris Leachman finally got her props. And heading into next week's dance, "the old girl" may have an advantage.
Read our complete backstage report, after the jump.
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