Star power

So, turns out Andy Warhol was as wrong as an artichoke Danish. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

In the future, that elfin painter of soup cans once said, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Wrong.

In the America of 2024, you can be famous for 15 minutes, and then go right on being famous.

This upon the news that one of the unlikely stars of the recent Paris Olympics, Pommel Horse Millhouse From The Simpsons, is getting a prime-time gig. Stephen Nedoroscik, Pommel Horse Millhouse's square name, has been selected as one of the contestants on the upcoming season of "Dancing With The Stars." And so fame goes into extra time for the nerdy guy with the glasses and the savant skill at Rubik's Cube who just happens to be one of the best pommel horse specialists in the world.

In Paris, he nailed down a bronze for the U.S. in the team competition with a clutch routine, then went on and won a bronze on the horse as an individual. Along the way, America fell in love with maybe the least gymnast-looking gymnast ever.

Now "Dancing With The Stars" is going to, well, make him a star all over again.

"I've never danced," he said upon being introduced. "I don't really do it at the club, either."

The Blob's response to that: Wait, you mean Millhouse goes clubbing?

My other response is he ought to do very well regardless, given that gymnastics and dancing both require control of the body in space. I mean, what the hell, Helio Castroneves once won DWTS, and James Hinchcliffe finished second. And they're race-car drivers.

So, yeah, Nedoroscik should do very well in this. And he'll fit right in with DWTS's tradition of  employing athletes as competitors.

Football players (Hines Ward and Emmitt Smith) have done this, after all. Figure skaters (Kristi Yamaguchi) and speed skaters (Apolo Ohno). And a former NBA player (Iman Shumpert) won the whole schmear not long ago.

A basketball player! And after all those years of not moving his pivot foot.

Shumpert clearly got past that. And I'm sure Nedoroscik will get past moving without feeling the urge to start swinging back and forth on an imaginary pommel horse.

Although that would be a slick dance move, come to think of it.