Cloris Leachman

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.

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The orchestra kept playing and the crowd gasped as they picked up speed — perhaps wondering why Cloris ... read more 24 Comments

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...

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...

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.

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