Free Republic

A group of young ballerinas rehearsing for “The Nutcracker” was kicked out of American University’s theatre so MSNBC host Chris Matthews could interview President Obama on Thursday. American University admitted they dumped Ballet Petite’s two final dress rehearsals so they could host MSNBC’s “Hardball College Tour.” Matthews will be presiding over a one-hour conversation with the man he’s likened to President Kennedy’s last brother, President Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ. The ballet company had been scheduled to rehearse on Wednesday and Thursday in preparation for their opening performance on Sunday.

We’ll take a dozen of them and we love what she’s done with her hair: Parisian high fashion house Hermès opulent silk scarves and American model Karlie Kloss make for a bountiful twosome in this soothing, relaxing and colorful ad campaign for the Hermès S/S 2010 collection.

Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre is embroiled in a high-profile row with an ice-cream-loving ballerina it says is too heavy for ballet partners to lift. Anastasia Volochkova, one of Russia's best-known ballerinas, says the theatre telephoned her 12 hours before she was due to perform in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake last week telling her not to turn up. She says she has been sacked. But the prestigious theatre denies dismissing her. It says it has offered her a new contract but cannot find her a partner for ballets that require lifting. "None of the male soloists at the Bolshoi Theatre agrees to dance...