Guttenberg Short Circuits On ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Call him the ‘anti-Carolla.’ For the first three weeks of the ABC competition show ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ everyone’s favorite erstwhile honorary mayor, Palisadian and comic actor Steve Guttenberg, seemed to have all the right moves’and to lead in the popularity department. Coupled with exquisite choreographer Anna Trebunskay, Guttenberg, 49, held his own, even as one of his competitors, smarmy radio personality Adam Carolla, lobbed barbs at the affable actor. For a moment in time, Guttenberg charmed America, and not an episode of ‘Dancing’ went by when he didn’t mention his parents back East ‘ the reason, as Guttenberg told the Palisadian-Post on March 13, that he agreed to do the show. But the tango edition of ‘Dancing’ got the best of the ‘Three Men and a Baby’ star. America had voted. Within the opening minutes of the April 1 show (no joke!), Guttenberg was eliminated, despite the fact that he had gamely mocked his own image portraying an aspiring rapper in a ‘Dancing’ April Fool’s skit. Could’ve been worse, as anyone who caught this week’s Carolla fiasco knows, witnessing Guttenberg’s shock jock doppelganger in Zorro outfit and moustache, beginning his routine on a unicycle (!) and dancing like Frankenstein’s monster in a Dracula costume. The judges were baffled…or perhaps merely pausing as America caught its collective breath from laughing so hard. This is dancing? America’s love affair with Guttenberg seems to be over’for now. But don’t count the Gute out. To paraphrase a certain cinematic cyborg famously portrayed by our Governor, ‘He’ll be back!’
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