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Dave on Demand: Oprah's dance

with ABC

Bill Maher was saying double.
Bill Maher was saying double.Read more

Man, Oprah really pulled out all the stops this week for her

Dancing With the Stars

reunion show - or as she described it, "our

Dancing With the Stars

grand champions EXTRAVAGANZA!" (emphasis all hers).

Maybe I'm being cynical, but I think there may have been a little tit-for-tat involved here, with ABC saying, "Look, we'll give you your own reality series (Oprah's Big Give) next week, if you'll just promote our ballroom show this week. Because to be honest, we're a little concerned we may have killed our golden goose with that awful Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann spin-off."

But as I watched the EXTRAVAGANZA, I couldn't help wondering:

1. Where in the world is the DWTS season-four winner, Apolo Anton Ohno? Going AWOL on Oprah? That's a no-no, Ohno.

2. Didn't you expect Tom Bergeron to take the Big O out on the dance floor for a little spin? I hoped you'd dance, Oprah!

I loved it when she introduced the contestants for next season, a group that included Priscilla Presley, Kristi Yamaguchi, Penn Jillette, Steve Guttenberg, and Mario, the R&B singer who goes by one name. Wow. I think DWTS has really achieved its casting mandate this time: assembling a group of people you'd never imagine being in the same room.

Speaking of things you don't usually see together, I also loved the promo for Monday's Oprah: "Valerie Bertinelli on sex, drugs, rock-and-roll and weight."

Picking his pocket. The best slam dunk at the NBA All-Star game happened courtside, as TNT reporter Craig Sager interviewed Steve Nash. Midquestion, the shifty Phoenix point guard reached over, plucked the handkerchief from Sager's jacket pocket, blew and wiped his nose, then stuffed it back into Sager's suit, saying, "Thanks, bro."

How do you defend against that?

Hearing things. On his Real Time show on HBO last week, TV hipster Bill Maher got a little carried away introducing one of his regular features. "It's an expanded edition of 'New Rules,' " he boasted. "We haven't done it in a while and they've been building up. Not that the writers were writing during the strike. It's like a double album. It's Dark Side of the Moon."

Um, actually, Bill, DSOTM, rich as it is, is a single slice of vinyl. Know your Pink Floyd.

Better than Shakespeare. Sometimes I wonder who writes the descriptive blurbs for my cable listings. For instance, whenever the movie Brick turns up, Comcast describes it this way: "Ranking up there with the hard-boiled best of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler is this crackling good noir thriller."

Really? An obscure 2005 straight-to-DVD release starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt is as good as The Maltese Falcon and The Long Goodbye? As I say, I don't know who writes these, but I'm guessing the last name is Gordon-Levitt.

Set phasers. Yeah, Bruce Davison was pretty good in the X-Men movies. But exactly when did he become Mr. Sci Fi?

Last week he had a big part in the Knight Rider remake (or was that a long Ford commercial?). This week he turns up on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Kudos to Davison. He's rapidly turning into the Vincent Price of this era.