Wednesday October 29, 2008
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Don't expect Cloris Leachman to retire now that she's been kicked off Dancing With the Stars.
The 82-year-old tells Usmagazine.com she's weighing her options.
"Mel Brooks called me this morning when I was in the bathtub," Leachman says. "He wants me to come back to Broadway and take over my role in the musical Young Frankenstein.
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(Leachman originated the role of Frau Blucher in the 1974 movie)
So will she accept?
"Well, we'll talk about it and figure it out," she says.
"But I have to go to Berlin to do...what's the name of it?" Leachman asks. "Oh, Inglourious Basterds. It's a Quentin Tarantino film. It's starring Brad Pitt. Then after I would go back into the musical...maybe."
Leachman isn't too upset about getting the boot on Tuesday's DWTS.
"It's fair, very fair," she told Us. "I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I wanted to be on Dancing With the Star so this is... we got very far and I'm very pleased and happy, and [partner] Corky [Ballas] has been here every step of the way. He saw me through it all - through every step I was supposed to do, and was not supposed to do!"
She says she learned a few life lessons from the show though.
"I thought I was younger than I am! I thought I could be a better dancer than apparently I was," she says. "So I've got to look at the film I shot to see what happened.
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"Because in my mind I think I was much better than they thought I was!" she adds. "And my son said the other day, 'Mom, you don't bend anymore!" So that's probably what I didn't realize!'"
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Posted by Lindsay Powers at 11:40 am ET
