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"Is there something wrong with me, that I enjoy watching The Next Best Thing: Celebrity Impersonators? Because it&amp;#039;s not inherently entertaining, people acting like old-fashioned stars. It&amp;#039;s possible it&amp;#039;s just fun to watch people trying out and making fools of themselves on stage in front of a panel of judges (see: American Idol, America&amp;#039;s Got Talent, So You Think You Can Dance, The Bachelor). And speaking of fools: What&amp;#039;s that, dude? You impersonate Elvis? How original of you (though in last night&amp;#039;s dude&amp;#039;s defense, he really did look like Elvis \u2013 the cute Elvis, not the fat one \u2013 and could kick his leg over his head). But really, there&amp;#039;s an incredible number of people who do Elvis, Cher, Joan Rivers and Jack Nicholson. A Britney impersonator didn&amp;#039;t look or sound much like Britney, but as her side job, she sells alcohol at bars and restaurants. Insert obvious joke here. Some black eyeliner transformed one girl into Avril Lavigne, complete with angry scowl and bad attitude. Thankfully the network blurred out a nude Cher bum (she was wearing a &amp;quot;Turn Back Time&amp;quot; leotard, naturally). And once again, impersonating fictional characters doesn&amp;#039;t count. So Borat went home, as did Jack Sparrow, the dude from Blade and Freddy Krueger. It really makes you appreciate actual celebrities and their actual talent, watching these people. Rod Stewart&amp;#039;s voice isn&amp;#039;t that easy to approximate for good reason: Rod is the man. And, well, there&amp;#039;s no need to go into Whitney Houston and why no one, ever, should try to sing any song she&amp;#039;s ever sung. In other ill-fated project news, MTV has reunited the Real World: Vegas gang, apparently having decided that it was the greatest of all Real Worlds that, five years later, needed to be re-enacted. So the kids, a little older, still kind of bitter about everything that went down, moved back into the casino. I suppose it was the genesis of Trishelle, one of reality TV&amp;#039;s most enduring characters, and the three-year-long relationship between Alton and Irulan. And it was set in Vegas, for crying out loud. Of course it was going to be ridiculous. But for their part, shouldn&amp;#039;t the Real World cast have moved on by now? Shouldn&amp;#039;t at least one of them have been too busy to participate? Oh wait, was that Trishelle demonstrating pole dancing in the shower? Nevermind, then. The Real World: Love it, hate it or love to hate it? Speak your mind in comments! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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